Enhancing Your Scholarly Profile Online

Academic Social Networks

Academic social networks can be used to create a profile, add friends and make connections, comment, contribute to discussion boards, etc. Read Terms of Service carefully to make sure you retain the rights to any of your work that you post on these sites, and make sure you have the rights to share your work on the site.

General Social Media

• The social media sites you're already using (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc) can also be great places to share your research
• Share links to newly published research through these sites
• Include links to your most prominent social media accounts in your email signature

Institutional Marketing

Take advantage of Loyola's marketing and PR resources to further promote your research.

• Submit a publication or publicity request to the Office of Marketing & Communications.
• Contact the Maroon
• Become a Loyola Expert

Once you've measured the impact of your scholarly output, you should use your metrics to further promote yourself. Citation and altmetrics can be used to improve promotion and tenure applications, CVs and resumes, grant applications, and sabbatical and research leave applications.

• Improve the discoverability of your scholarship by publishing for impact
• Promote your scholarship to key stakeholders
• Measure the impact of your work
• 3-Day Challenge
  • Google Scholar Profile Instructions
  • ​ORCID ID Instructions
  • Citations and Shares Tracking Instructions
  • Open Access Publishing Instructions

Adapted under a CC-BY 4.0 license from the The 30-Day Impact Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Raising the Profile of Your Research eBook  published by Impactstory.org and authored by Stacy Konkiel, and the Duquesne University 5-Day Impact Challenge.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.