Increase visibility, clarity and impact

Department at the University of Gothenburg: 

Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Joint department with Chalmers: 

Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital

If you wish to be affiliated with both the Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, please list them as two separate affiliations:

a) Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

b) Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden

As an employee at the University of Gothenburg, you have an obligation to register your scientific publications in GUP, the university publications database. This database forms the basis for bibliometric calculations, but also makes your publication visible in, for example, Supersearch and the Swedish publication database Swepub. Use your GU account to access GUP.

• Register publications in GUP
• Swepub

One option for making your publication available is to post a copy to the university's full-text archive, Gupea. If your article is published open access, you are free to post a copy here. If the article is behind a paywall, you may have to wait for an embargo period to end. Via Sherpa Romeo, you can find out whether a publisher has embargo periods. The file is uploaded to Gupea by the library, after which a link is added in GUP and the article is then possible to find via Google and other search services.

• How to self-archive
• Sherpa Romeo

One way to increase dissemination of and access to your text, especially if it is not published with open access, is to upload it to a subject repository.

This practice differs between various subject areas, but a repository such as arxiv.org is central to the dissemination of publications within its subject areas (mainly certain fields within natural science, mathematics and computer science).

In some cases, the author uploads the manuscript (pre-print) at the same time as it is submitted for assessment by a journal or conference publication. It is important to keep track of which version of the publication may be uploaded and how soon after publication you may do so (see the section on Publishing agreements and licenses).

How to self-archive

Research data from your projects is made visible and can be reused by other researchers if you make them accessible. This can be achieved by allowing data to be freely downloaded from a database. If the research data contains information that cannot be made freely available (for example, personal data), the data can be made visible by having information in the form of metadata in the database. In this way, other researchers can find out what is available, and can take part in and possibly reuse the material in a structured manner.

One way to make research data visible and easily citable is to publish it with a short description in a so-called data journal. Contact the research data support group via any of the links if you have questions about data journals.

Publishing and making research data available (Staff portal)

One way to increase your visibility as a researcher, and make it easier for others to find out more about your professional capacity is to set up and regularly update a selection of researcher profiles. In addition to profiles on various academic social networks and other social media, there are a few places where it matters to be seen:

The University website

On your contact page on the university website, you can add a short description of your assignments, skills and research interests. You can also upload an image. A list of your publications is visible here, provided they are indexed in GUP (obtained from Web of Science or Scopus or registered by you).

The contact page is not just an opportunity for you to introduce yourself, but the contact details and the fact that the page exists is a confirmation to the visitor that you are employed at the University of Gothenburg. If there is further information about you on the page, that can be linked to other available information (such as research interests and publications), the visitor can feel confident that you are who you claim to be.

ORCID

You can create a profile with ORCID. On your ORCID page, you can post a description of yourself, a brief CV and a list of your publications. Several journals can assist by sending information about your publication directly to ORCID, if you provide your ORCID number and give them rights to edit your profile.

Google Scholar

With a user profile on Google Scholar, in addition to for example monitoring saved searches, you can help Google Scholar index your publications and correctly link them to you. This provides an overview of which citations exist for these publications. Otherwise, the information that can be added is limited, but it is possible link your profile to your e-mail address at the University of Gothenburg.

• Update your contact page at the University of Gothenburg in the POP platform (Staff portal)
• Create or update an ORCID profile

One way to get attention for your publication that can be effective sometimes, is to spread information about it via social media or via social networks that specifically target research.

Public social media

Having a presence on one or more social media platforms and posting information about your publication there, can create visibility for it. Write something brief about what your most important results are. If possible, use hashtags and don't forget to include the DOI of your publications as this allows services that measure visibility in social media to pick up if others forward your post or use it to write their own.

Feel free to take the help of others (e.g. colleagues, communicators) to spread your post or to highlight your publication in their posts. And don't forget to help your colleagues in a similar way to spread information about what they have published

Academic social networks

Social networking services that specifically target researchers, such as Research Gate and Academia.edu, can be effective ways to reach out both to your network and to others who have an interest in similar research. Just like other social media, these services are commercial and have a business model based on you uploading material to the service and that you read and download other people's material. From time to time, the network may send emails with information about how others have interacted with your material, and about other people's publications that may be of interest to you.

When you create a profile with these networks, you can link your publications to the profile. You can also, if your agreement with the publisher allows it, self archive a version of the publication with the service. By following other researchers, you are alerted to their new publications. And those who follow you can likewise receive tips about what you have published, which leads to increased visibility for the publication. Your publication and profile will also be searchable in search engines such as Google and Google Scholar.

Linkedin can function as a complementy network to Research Gate and Academia.edu but has a greater focus on labor market contacts than on scientific communication.