Increasing citations

General guidelines

Nature News Blog Strategies to increase the reach

• Importance of title, keywords, and abstract
  • Good title, keywords, and abstract are crucial for the paper to be indexed by search engines
  • More succinct papers tend to be cited more often
  • Select keywords that are not too general, but not too specific as well
  • Repeat the main themes of the paper in abstract

• Include self-citations and cite colleagues from the department to improve the visibility of the previous work

• Open access and pre-prints
  • Make your work further accessible
  • dspace and Arxiv are such platforms
  • Acknowledge your paper in Research Gate

• Social networking elements
  • Papers with international collaboration are more successful
  • Attend conferences when possible to share your work with other researches
  • Share your results on social networking sites
    • Research Gate - acknowledge the paper as yours, recommend interesting papers from the department, and engage in discussion; we could create a group for Scheduling Seminar?
    • LinkedIn - share interesting results from the department
    • Twitter, Facebook, ...?