Skip to Main Content

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. Please note: Altmetric 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
  • Search for your publications in Scopus or Web of Science and monitor citations

Help

 For assistance with research promotion, book a consultation.