5 Steps to Drive Public Engagement with Your Research Article
After you’ve spent months and maybe even years on your academic research and now finally have it published, what’s next? Will the general public read and understand your research?…
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13 Popular YouTube Channels for Smart Researchers!
A growing sensation, streamed educational programs are quickly finding their place among students, professionals, researchers, and teachers. Science e-learning has grown by nearly…
Promote Your Research with These 7 Simple Techniques!
There is a lot of published research data now available and this makes it harder for your target audience to find your academic research. Promoting your research has therefore…
Using Social Media to Effectively Promote Your Research
Using social media platforms such as LinkedIn, ORCID, ResearchGate, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Mendeley, can be an excellent way to promote your research and share it with a…
Going Beyond Citations: Using Altmetrics to Measure Research Impact
Measuring the impact of a research publication is critical to every researcher’s career. The assessment of scientific publications is increasingly critical to scholarly…
Are Scientists Using Social Media Effectively?
The onset of the “social media” revolution was recognized about 15 years ago when Friendster was created as a means by which people with similar interests could interact online.…
Can Twitter Raise Your Research Profile?
In the past decade, the usage of the term “social media” seems to have increased greatly. Websites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn represent one way in which people can…
How to Promote My Research
Although scientists are generally willing to publish their research, they are often hesitant about promoting it. The attitude seems to be to let the publication do most of the…
Tips for Chairing a Plenary Session at Academic Conferences
What is a Plenary Session?
You’ve been invited to chair the plenary session at an academic conference. It is scheduled to take place at the top of the conference agenda, and will…
Where Will the Next Great Research Breakthroughs Come From?
Whether your benchmark for "solitary genius" is Shakespeare, Austen, Newton, Goodall, Darwin, Einstein, Franklin, Picasso, or Da Vinci, there is a certain romanticism to the notion…
How to Find a Research Collaborator
It’s a Lot Like Dating
You may not need to resort to Match.com or eHarmony.com, but the process of finding a collaborator for your research study can be just as nerve racking.…
Tips to Ensure That Your Paper Gets Noticed
Although publication of an academic paper, for which you have been slaving over for weeks, months, or even years, is a significant accomplishment, ensuring that your paper gets…