Research Guides: Savvy Researcher: Create and Manage Your Online Scholarly Presence: Maximize Your Impact

VISIBILITY - increased visibility means larger audience

write to be found: write effective titles and abstracts, assign keywords, tags, and subjects, use synonyms, use SVG images (so they could be indexed and retrieved)
consider publishing negative or inconclusive results
enhance your publications with supplemental materials (tables, datasets, filesets, presentations, video and audio files, etc)
retain copyright - this will allow you to maximize your options for dissemination
choose open access publishing (open access, fee-based open access, or delayed open access journals)
use social media to disseminate information on your papers and research
develop your academic profile so it will include all your academic and social media scholarly activity (post manuscripts of publications, conference abstracts, and supplemental materials such as images, illustrations, slides, specimens, blogs, podcasts,etc.)

AVAILABILITY - ensure permanent and stable access to your work

CONSISTENCY - ensure that all your works are collected under your name

create your unique ID - eliminate author ambiguity by creating a unique identifiers for your work (ORCID, ResearcherID, SCOPUS Author Identifier, etc.)
correct errors--wrong citations to your papers, papers that are not yours on all platforms
use same author name variation whenever possible
use standardized institutional affiliation
create and keep public profiles up-to-date
Combine multiple Scopus identities using through the Author Feedback Wizard, or ask your liaison librarian for assistance.