Promote Your Article
Influence the discovery and readership of your contribution
You’ve invested a significant amount of time into publishing your paper, but you shouldn’t stop there. Your research deserves to be read, shared, and put into policy and practice so it can have the greatest impact in your field. With your help, we can grow the reach of your research.
We’ve detailed below the best ways to do this and encourage you to consider actioning the options that best suit your work.
Feature your article with a Cover Image
Your research deserves to be seen. One great way to showcase your work is with an eye-catching Cover Image featured in your article's journal issue. After your article is accepted for publication, you can submit your Cover Image idea.
Why feature your article with a Cover Image?
Front Cover Images have a proven impact on article usage metrics. We recently completed an analysis to compare key article usage metrics of articles with Front Cover Images against the average metric values of articles published in the same issue.
Since May 2021, and compared to articles from the same issue without, articles with a Cover Image average:
- 55% higher full-text views on ICRP journals
- 31% higher Altmetric Attention scores
How can your Cover Image help promote your work?
In addition to generating interest in your article’s issue, you can use your Cover Image in your other article promotion efforts.
- Include it in a poster or other printed material.
- Use it in presentations at conferences and speaking events.
- Add it to any multimedia and videos.
- Send it to your local press office to spotlight your work.
- Email it to your colleagues and peers.
- Share it on social media.
- Make your website more visual.
Share with anyone, anywhere with Article Share
You want your article to be read. With Article Share, you can easily generate a unique sharing link to a full-text, read-only version of your article that can be shared with unlimited people.
That's it! You can share this link with an unlimited number of people for their non-commercial, personal use. Share your link via email, social media, your personal website or online profiles, institutional repositories, or Scholarly Collaboration Networks that are signatories to the Voluntary Principles for Article Sharing on Scholarly Collaboration Networks.
Why should you use it?
- Share with anyone – Your unique link can be shared with an unlimited number of people
- Share anywhere – You can post the link on social media, institutional repositories, your personal website and online profiles, or SCNs that have signed the STM sharing principles
- Share with ease – Readers simply click the link to view the article in an Enhanced PDF format
Pricing for Cover Image
If you want to design the cover image then contact publications@icrp.org.uk
Maximize Research Impact
A helpful way to give your research wider reach is to share it with others. From using an ORCID ID to a preprint server to publishing open access.
Online Promotion is Key
Did you know that including images and relevant hashtags can get you 50% more engagement on your online posts? With a wide variety of online sharing tools, there are many platforms to get your research seen and shared.
Make the Most of Your Connections
One of the best ways to spread your research is to share with your connections, presenting many opportunities to collaborate.
