Maximising Your Research Visibility

Intro

Maximising Your Research Visibility provides a clear and practical guide to understanding how research is discovered, read, shared, and evaluated within academia and beyond. This course helps researchers navigate the complexities of citation counts, journal metrics, and databases to ensure their work receives the credit it deserves.

This course is currently in development and scheduled to open for enrolment in August 2026.

Contact us for pre-enrolment or notification of publication.

What You’ll Learn

This course offers a comprehensive look into the mechanisms of research visibility, moving beyond simple citation counts to explore a holistic set of visibility strategies to maximise research visibility. Learners will explore the strengths and limitations of traditional bibliometrics, such as the h-index and Impact Factor, while also being introduced to the growing field of altmetrics. The course provides step-by-step guidance on managing researcher identities across major databases and concludes with the development of a tailored research visibility plan.

This course consists of the following three modules:

1. Tracking Your Metrics

2. Maximising Your Coverage

3. Increasing Your Visibility

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

✓ Identify and evaluate several key bibliometric indicators, including researcher-level metrics and altmetrics.

✓ Interpret metrics from Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, and altmetric tools.

✓ Use author IDs and research profiles effectively across platforms.

✓ Apply ethical strategies to increase the visibility of work.

✓ Develop and apply a personal research visibility plan.

Who It’s For

This course is designed for early career researchers to apply strategies which they can use throughout their careers to ensure their research enjoys the desired traction and reach. As such, the course is also highly relevant for established researchers looking to update their knowledge on best practices and new strategies in responsible metrics use and management of their digital researcher identities.

Get Prepared

No prior knowledge of bibliometrics is needed to complete this course. The course is fully self-paced and can be followed at learners’ own pace. The course includes several opportunities for in-course practice as well as the creation of a detailed tailored research visibility action plan. These activities can be completed on a mobile device, tablet, or laptop.

Course Expert(s)

Dr. Gali Halevi

Dr. Gali Halevi is a researcher and published author, as well as a consultant in data analytics for scientific and academic research. She currently serves as the Senior Scientific Advisor at SCImago Research Group, and has previously served as the Director of The Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate and on the editorial board of Research Trends.

Dr. Halevi has also held a position as the Chief Director of the Mount Sinai Health System Libraries and has made significant contributions to infometric tools for Elsevier’s leading products. With a strong foundation in information science, Dr. Halevi received her Master’s in Library and Information Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her PhD in Information Science from Long Island University in New York.

Programme

Generating Research Impact is a three-course programme that guides researchers through the process of preparing, monitoring and communicating their research in terms of tangible and measurable societal benefit beyond the walls of academia.

From evaluating bibliometric indicators and applying ethical visibility strategies to communicating how research can affect everyday life, the programme provides a comprehensive roadmap to support researchers in moving beyond academic outputs to documenting the real-world impact of their research.

Generating Research Impact includes the following courses:

1. Maximising Your Research Visibility

2. Defining Research Impact

3. Preparing for Research Impact