Publishing your research work is important, but the number of times your work is cited is also very important as it indicates the impact that it has created in your field. Citations of your research paper can also have a great impact on your career, fundings/investments in the project work by the agencies or institutions etc. Despite been an outstanding research work, but it does not mean that it will automatically have a good citation count. Authors need to take efforts to promote their research work and increase its visibility.

1. How to Increase the
Impact of your
Research
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N A T U R E E N V I R O N M E N T A N D P O L L U T I O N T E C H N O L O G Y
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IN THE NAME OF THE
AUTHORS
It is highly recommended that the authors use the
same style of the name throughout their academic
careers.
USAGE
OF KEYWORDS
Choose the keywords that are more frequently
been used while searching your research topic. This
will help to make appear your paper in the search
results.
CITING YOUR PREVIOUS
RESEARCH WORK
Authors should cite their own and the co-authors’ previous
research work in relevant manuscript. But make sure that
you do not cite it in all manuscripts. More than 20% of
self-citations is highly discouraged and you should cite
your articles wisely and only where relevant.
REPEATING THE KEYWORDS OR
PHRASES IN ABSTRACT
The authors should wisely use the key phrases/key words of
the topic and use it in the abstract and the title. The
search engines generally search the key words in the title
and abstract, hence placing them in such places increases
the chance of your paper to appear in the search results.
SHARE
YOUR RESEARCH WORK
Authors should share their published work in social
mediums for research fraternity like ResearchGate,
Academics.edu, Slideshare, Linkedin, Mendeley, your
institutions digital library or website etc. This will
increase the visibility of their research work and chances
of been cited by other researchers.