How to Improve the Impact of My Research
Recently I am thinking about a critic question of "how to improve the impact of my publicated papers". This concern raised because the following observations:
- The Paper-Researcher relationship changes. In past, it is many researchers talking about a few publicated studies. but currently, there emerged more and more "top-tier" papers, where even a person under a narrow research domain cannot read out the publicated studies in his/her field easily. Therefore, publication is not the endpoint of "acceptance", "MAKE OTHER PEOPLE KNOW MY WORK" is the endpoint of such an "acceptance".
- The paper becomes a thing "almost everyone owns". In the past ages, people with three studies can be seen as a mature researcher in corresponding field. However, currently, many people own a lot of paper, and even get acceptance of a lot of their works every year. Under such a situation, I suffer from the choice: either obtain many publications, or have some famous publications, or the both.
Specifically, under such a "red sea" situation, I must consider: does there exist any other subjective and objective metric that distinguish a researcher with others?
I think the answer is yes. Citations, can be seen as a simple but effective metric for that. Besides, let all people in this field know me, is also an important solution.
Therefore, I propose a new plan to improve the impact of my research, named "Plan Poisoning". I will regard my publications and my precious works as the poisoning data, and aim to inject them into the Internet by myself.
The detailed plan is as follows:
- Join academic conference more frequently. This provides me the opportunity to connect with other person in this field. To do that, I need to submit my paper with a certain frequency.
- Once a study is accomplished, I need to announce and introduce it under the following platforms:
- X
- Discord
- Zhihu
- RedNote
- Blog in this website
- I require myself to write email to share my study with other people
- Write Chinese article to some Wechat platforms
- Make video and submit it into Youtube and Bilibili
- Seeking for collaborators to improve the publications of non-first-author publications.
Let me see the effectiveness of this strategy on .