How to publish a scientific paper: Maximizing impact

Create a personal research communication strategy:

1. Register for an ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) to insure that you receive credit for your work

2. Make your work Open Access: "...accounting for age and discipline, OA articles receive 18% more citations than average." (Piwowar et al. 2018)

• Publish in an Open Access journal; see the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Evaluating Publishers.
• Deposit a preprint in a disciplinary Open Access repository (e.g., arXiv, BioRχiv)
• Deposit a postprint in PMC to fulfill funder public access policies if research is funded by NSF, NIH, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or Wellcome Trust
• Upload author's final version to the eScholarship Repository in accordance with the UC Open Access Policy

Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving: SHERPA/RoMEO

Get funding to publish Open Access UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Services

3. Share your data to increase your work's visibility

• Open Data best practices (Dryad Digital Repository)
• DASH (University of California)

4. Talk up your paper with colleagues and at conferences

5. Add your paper to Mendeley; see the Library's Mendeley Guide

6. Promote your paper on social media (blogs, Twitter, etc.)

For more information:

• Research Impact (UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Services)
• Broaden your research impact (UC Berkeley Library)