LibGuides: Raising Your Scholarly Profile: Discoverability

Things to Think About...

Choosing the right journal or publisher can improve the chance that your scholarship is discovered by other scholars. When choosing a journal, it's worth considering which databases index the journal, whether the journal is available freely or by subscription, and the reputation of the publisher.

Choosing the Right Journal

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Where to Publish Your Research
Provides guidance on identifying potential journals, choosing the right journal, open access and more.
Discipline Repositories
List of publication repositories by discipline (maintained by the Open Access Directory).
Digital Repositories Offer Many Practical Benefits
Produced by SPARC, an alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
Documenting Your Scholarly Impact
Includes information about journal metrics and other measures of scholarly impact.
Open access versus subscription journals: A comparison of scientific impact
Research article published in BMC Medicine (an open access journal)
SHERPA/RoMEO
Enables you to search for journals' policies regarding when you can upload pre- and post-publication copies of articles.
Strategies for Enhancing the Impact of Research
Produced by the Becker Library at Washington University. Provides strategies for optimizing the discoverability of your research.
Why Open Access? - Researchers
Produced by the Right to Research Coalition, an organization that seeks to promote an open scholarly publishing system.

Creating a Scholarly Profile

Creating a profile enables other scholars to identify your works easilty. If you don't manage your scholarly profile, selected websites many already be managing it without your input.

ORCID iD
Allows you to create a unique author ID and ensures that your works are correctly identified.
Scopus Author Identifier
Ensures that all your works are grouped together in the Scopus database. Use the above link to check your Scopus Author Identifier for accuracy. If you need to make corrections, use the Author Feedback Wizard.
ResearcherID
Ensures that all your works are all grouped together in the Web of Science database.
Google Scholar
Ensures that all your works are grouped together in Google Scholar and enables you to track citations to your work.
WorldCat.org
You can create a list of your books by signing into WorldCat.org. It will assign a unique URL to the list, which you can share.