Methods to Enhance Your Impact

There are many methods for enhancing your research impact. One of the best ways is to ensure that your work belongs to you by using an author identifier such as an ORCID. Other methods involve increasing visibility and discoverability by including works into the institutional repository, connecting with other scholars, or sharing your research online.

Information Below Includes

• Use author identifier(s) to get credit for your work
• Enhance discoverability and dissemination
• Find and connect with like-minded scholars

Use Author Identifier(s) to Get Credit for Your Work

Author identifiers disambiguate authors with the same or similar name. Because they persist even if you change your name, switch fields, or relocate, having an author identifier ensures that your work is discovered and attributed to you. An identifier will simplify updating your CV or preparing an annual report because it streamlines the process of compiling a bibliography of your work. Searchable author identifier registries contain researcher profiles and lists of citations.

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)

ORCID is a global registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars that is open, non-proprietary, transparent, mobile, and community-based. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier to distinguish you from all other researchers, automatically linking your professional activities. Your ORCID identifier will belong to you throughout your scholarly career as a persistent identifier to distinguish you from other researchers and ensure consistent, reliable attribution of your work.

We recommend registering for an ORCID, find more information about ORCID.

Other Researcher Identifiers

• ResearcherID is Thomson Reuters’ registry of unique author identifiers limited to authors with work indexed in Web of Science. ResearcherID adds dynamic citation metrics from Web of Science. Authors must register for a ResearcherID.
• Google Scholar ensures that all your works are grouped together in Google Scholar and enables you to track citations to your work.

• Enhance Discoverability & Dissemination

  Seattle University Scholarworks

  Digital repository of the research, scholarship, and creative works of Seattle University faculty, students, and staff. The repository increases the global visibility of our campus community's intellectual output. Please email scholarworks@seattleu.edu with questions, comments, or suggestions.

  SHERPA RoMEO

  Use SHERPA RoMEO to look up a journal's archiving policies to see what you (as an author) are allowed to do with your articles and where you can share them.

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  Find and Connect with Like-Minded Scholars

  Academia: Facilitates interactions with other scholars and promotes sharing your works. Also provides analytics regarding use of your works.

  ResearchGate: Facilitates interactions with other researchers and promotes sharing your research. Also tracks citations and downloads of your works as well as tweets about your works.

  Mendeley: Mendeley is a freemium-based reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Create a researcher profile, track views and downloads as an alternative impact measure, and find similar papers to the ones you're reading.

  LinkedIn: Used by business scholars as a platform to share information and discuss issues.