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Measuring and Increasing your Research Impact


There a variety of ways that you can use to increase your research impact and make your work easily discoverable to the wider global academic community.

Use of Author IDs and Researcher Profiles

You can easily use some freely available online services to create a distinct author profile and ID. An author ID prevents ambiguity where there are several authors with the same name or name variants. Some tools you can use include:

  1. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier)
  2. Scopus Author Identifier
  3. Google Scholar Citations Profile
  4. Semantic Scholar
  5. arXiv Author ID
  6. Academia.edu

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