Share a post about your latest scholarly work on social media or a research networking platform, including a link to the publication, exhibit, data set, or presentation.
What’s next: Find the social media or research networking platform where your disciplinary colleagues or potential audience members gather. Participate regularly in these forums to boost the visibility and discoverability of your work.
More information about Research Impact can be found at go.osu.edu/researchimpact
Creating professional profiles on research networking sites and social media is a great way to boost the visibility of your research, share your work directly with the public, and – perhaps most importantly – find a sense of community with other researchers in your field. There are a wide variety of research networking sites that you can choose from, general sites like (X, Instagram, or LinkedIn), discipline-specific platforms or even list servs and mailing lists.
Kudos is a free platform for researchers to increase the visibility and usage of their publications. You can authorize Kudos to post information about your publications to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, or generate trackable links for you to include in posts or emails. The author dashboard provides information about shares, views, downloads, Altmetric scores, and Web of Science citations.
The Conversation: Ohio State is a founding university partner with The Conversation, a website that publishes articles by academics with expert knowledge of timely, evidence-based issues making the news.
Knowledge Commons - a sharing and collaboration network for people working in and around the humanities.
New Books Network - a collection of author-interview podcasts hosted by Amherst College Press. They produce about 100 podcasts per month, most of which are university press books, and have an average of 30,000 downloads per day. You can pitch your book to the network at https://newbooksnetwork.com/publicize-your-book-on-the-nbn/.
People Behind the Science - a podcast "focused on the people doing fascinating research through interviews with top scientists."
We Share Science - a website for displaying brief video abstracts of your research or research paper.
Mendeley - a reference manager with social aspects. You can keep track of citations you are interested in as well as your own, follow other researchers or topic groups, get recommendations on what to read,and upload and monitor downloads of your publications.
ResearchGate - a professional network for scientists and researchers. It allows you to set up a profile listing your research publications, interests, expertise, and current projects, follow other researchers of interest, and ask research-related questions of other users.
Academia.edu - a researcher profile site that allows you to connect with other researchers and share your publications through uploads, not just linking. In fact, the signup process attempts to get you to upload copies as soon as possible.
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