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Research essentials

A guide for Higher Degree by Research students and Early Career Researchers

Get attention: promote your research

Connect

  • Sign up for an ORCID and connect your research activities to YOU.
  • Be strategic in journal selection and connect with the best journal for your manuscript.
  • Consider Search Engine Optimisation when writing your manuscript.
  • Archive your accepted manuscripts in Research Bank and boost the search results ranking for your publications.
  • Publish open access through a Read and Publish Agreement and connect to a wider audience.

Promote

  • Adapt your publication for different audiences. Consider a lay summary, video abstract, or an infographic and demonstrate complex information that can be easily understood.
  • Write for The Conversation and reach a broader audience.
  • Add value to your publications Research Bank record; upload data, images, or other supplementary files.
  • Make your data available and tell the full story of your research.
  • Start your own blog or contribute to an existing one and build your online profile.

Monitor

  • Search for your publications in Altmetric Explorer and monitor real time attention outside of academia. Attention includes mentions in policy, news outlets, social media.

NoteAltmetric Explorer harvests information about ACU publications from ACU's Institutional Repository Research Bank. To track attention to your publications, they will need to be in the repository.

Help

 For assistance with research promotion, book a consultation.