Practices for enhancing research visibility, citations and impact: review of literature

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Ale Ebrahim et al. (2014) in their research "Visibility and Citation Impact" looks into the connection between an article's visibility and its citation count and recommended for selfarchiving publications that would greatly improve the citations. Additionally, their study aims to ascertain the impact of paper exposure on the number of citations received by two distinct academics from various institutions and academic fields. After that, they found that the visibility and citation effect of the publications increased significantly as a result of selfarchiving. Okeji et al. (2018) discovered that some instances of self-archiving sites are Academia.edu, ResearchGate and IRs that academic librarians in Nigerian institutions are aware of and utilise, while academic librarians rarely utilise private websites/servers, Mendeley.com, Kudos and other supported tools.A study by Shehata et al. (2015) stated that sharing research after it has been published is a good idea since it will make it more visible and easier for people to obtain their papers, which will enhance the likelihood that their work will be cited in more publications. According to Smith (2013), 84% of the authors believed that there is still more to be done to enhance their work's efficiency, visibility and impact. Unfortunately, a lot of researchers do not share or disseminate their work after it has been peer reviewed. In most cases, they are unaware of the advantages or do not know how to disseminate their research through informal networks.Only 15-25% of the 2.5 million articles that are produced each year throughout the world are self-archived by the writers (Hajjem et al., 2005a, b;Bj€ ork et al., 2010;Gargouri et al., 2010). Around 95% of researchers in two international, multidisciplinary surveys stated that they would self-archive if it is mandatory to do at their institutions or funders; 81% stated that they would deposit willingly if it was required and 14% stated that they would deposit unwillingly (Swan, 2006).Cerejo (2013) mentioned following interesting facts about self-archiving. Lack of awareness of its benefits: Many writers are not aware that self-archiving is an option or that it has benefits. Because of this, even whilst the authors' universities have repositories, writers rarely bother with self-archiving until their institutions require it. Self-archived materials' content is a source of concern. In several academic fields, including computer science, pre-prints are stored far more often than post-prints. The research might be evaluated by the larger scientific community before being peerreviewed.The majority of journals make their copyright policies on self-archiving clear in their instructions for authors; thus, there is rarely a need to be concerned about breaking them. If authors read and grasp these guidelines, the majority of which permit authors to self-archive, they don't face the danger of breaching any agreements.The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) of The University of Southampton was the first organisation i...