Raising Your Profile: Visible or Vanish
In the past, "publish or perish" was so popular made scholars are pushed to produce high-quality works, which implied demanding jobs, to be published in high-quality journals. However, once the articles are published, the job seemed finished. Scholars moved to the next jobs. Produced other articles. And so on.
This repetition should be improved by "visible or vanish" as the purpose of our works is not just reaching a publication stage but also can be sounded by peers and amateur audiences. By using other words, if we did good research and publish it in a prominent scientific journal but none discuss or cite it, we simply vanish.
Therefore, people should easily identify us on the internet.
Who’s talking about your research?
As we need to be found on the internet (let's say in Google search engine), as soon as we have something to say, go online. Hence, it is more about promoting ourselves than our research
Our email address is the first step to being visible online.
Use the institution's email. If you are not using institution email (or do not have one) and prefer to use personal email, use the professional-like email. Try not to use too casual email name, e.g., using a combination of letters and names as email names like jeremy1990@gmail.com or diana_cute@gmail.com
Using a full name as an email address is a safe way of professional communication.
You can either merge two or three words into one word, like jeremywallet@gmail.com or separate them by using a comma, underscore, or dot like diana.rose@gmail.com.
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Other ways to promote yourself are utilising ORCID as a unique identifier for scholars.
Another method is using Scopus and Researcher ID which are simply the same thing: both of them are the largest database
Perhaps a Google Scholar profile is the best way for visibility online as it includes all our output, not just peer-reviewed content.
While Linkedin, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu are basically social media for academics.
On the other hand, social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs depend on our target audience and our discussion topic.
The table below shows the good, better, and best actions to deal with the applications above to show up ourselves.