If you would like to gain even greater exposure for your research and aspire to share your work as widely as possible with the public, you will want to consider working directly with mainstream media channels. Read on to learn some effective ways to start working with the media.

Traditionally, research was commonly shared via high-profile journals, conferences and academic networks. Today, however, the proliferation of new technologies and digital channels now makes it possible for researchers to reach much bigger audiences all around the world. This article shares tips for how to effectively use social media to share your research. 

While academics are happy to talk about ideas and concepts, industry specialists require practical, concise information. In this article, we discuss how to approach communications like user guides and technology summaries.

The nature of academic publishing often encourages us to think in very detailed, narrow terms. Here, we discuss how to reach those outside of our own niche, and how to most effectively communicate ideas across multiple disciplines.

Whether it is for a university open day, an outreach event or a regular research group newsletter for interested subscribers, your goal is to engage the public in a clear and concise manner. This article explores a few common pitfalls that occur when communicating your research with the general public, offering advice on how to avoid them.

As a thought leader in your field, you will have made findings and hold opinions on certain topics that will affect the general public. It is not unusual, therefore, to be approached by mainstream publications, or to have the impulse to pitch an article to a magazine, in order to bring your expertise into a wider conversation. Let’s discuss some things to bear in mind in this situation.

Academics are sometimes afforded the opportunity to take part in outreach programmes. Usually, the target audience are schoolchildren and young adults. It can be challenging to create engaging content for an outreach programme, so here are a few tips to get you on your way.

Whatever your reasons to publish your research, as an academic scholar you want to amplify your research impact, reach and citations. This article explains ways to leverage open access (OA) journals and outlets to do just that.

This article suggests several strategies you can adopt to promote your accepted or published paper for increasing the chances of it getting cited.

Selecting keywords after some careful deliberation can bring you multiple benefits as a researcher trying to get noticed in your academic community, not least by making your paper more discoverable. This article gives you some tips on how to choose the right keywords, what to avoid as keywords, and, once you have chosen the appropriate keywords, how to format them.

An embargo in the context of academic publishing typically means a temporary stop or ban on disclosing information contained in a research paper. This article discusses ways to deal with the embargo period both as an author and as a reader.

There has been an exponential increase in the use of social media in recent years. However, while there is often a positive sense of community to be had, it can be equally toxic and destructive. This article outlines some practical steps you can take to ensure healthy, positive use of social media as a researcher/academic.

A paper in conference proceedings is based on a talk or poster presented at an academic symposium or conference. This article explains all that you need to keep in mind and do when working on such a paper.

The ‘impact’ of a piece of research is difficult to quantify. For that reason, researchers often turn to the impact factor (IF) of journals within which they are published. Unfortunately, there has been an unhealthy overreliance on IFs in the academic space, which calls to question whether this is a useful metric, and is prompting researchers to rethink their take on ‘impact’.

Many PhD students don’t manage to publish their findings during their PhD, but are encouraged to do so after completion of their project. This articles provides some practical tips for publishing and promoting your thesis.

Although research papers and reports are often taken to be the more tangible products of original research, those are processed, finished, products: the basic, immediate, product is data, which is why “raw data” is the term often used. 

Letters to the Editor (LTEs) (alternately called “Correspondence” or “Reflections”) are brief, focused communications that provide commentary on material recently published in a journal.  Although not peer-reviewed, they are considered contributions that advance the scientific discourse of a topic. As such, they are indexed along with the parent articles they discuss.

Ensure a successful preprint submission to a journal with these 5 essential points. Discover key tips and guidelines to follow when preparing and submitting your preprint for publication. 

Research papers serve as essential tools in the dissemination of knowledge and the advancement of academic disciplines.

Artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) and AIGC models have emerged as powerful tools in the realm of content creation.