Publisher does it’s best to increase the visibility of the published articles. However, there are some key things where you as the author can help to promote the Journal and to significantly maximize the impact of your published research:
- Register for an ORCID iD (www.orcid.org), get an author identifier, and include details of published articles to your profile.
- Join academic social networks, e.g. ResearchGate (www.researchgate.net), Academia.edu (www.academia.edu), Mendeley (www.mendeley.com), and update your profile with details of your published articles.
- Share your articles via social media platforms: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and others using links to the articles in the Journal website.
- Update your faculty or professional website with the bibliographic entries of your articles and links to the articles in the Journal website.
- Share your articles with your colleagues using links to the articles in the Journal website or Journal Twitter account @MSTA_VTeX.
- Present your articles at conferences. Presenting and networking personalizes your work, giving it a face and a voice, and it can create new opportunities for collaboration.
- Optimize your SEO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization) to ensure your articles appear higher in the results returned by search engines such as Google and Google Scholar, Elsevier's Scirus, IEEE Xplore, Pubmed, SciPlore.org, and other.
Below are a few SEO guidelines:
- Use keywords, especially in the title and abstract
- Add captions with keywords to all photographs, images, graphs and tables
- Add titles or subheadings (with keywords) to the different sections of your article
- Make sure there are as many links as possible to your article, e.g. from your institute's website, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, (influential) blogs, and social media