Strategies for Boosting Research Impact and Visibility

In this session, attendees will learn research-backed strategies for boosting researcher visibility and impact, without gaming the system. Particular focus will emphasize making scholarship easier to find through researcher profile management, strategies for audience expansion, and services and tools for making data-driven decisions.  

Speakers

Rachel Miles

Research Impact Coordinator
University Libraries

Rachel Miles is the research impact coordinator at Virginia Tech University Libraries and specializes in research analytics, such as citation analyses and co-authorship networks; she also offers consultations, instruction, and expertise in bibliometrics, altmetrics, research communication, academic publishing, copyright, Open Access, and research evaluation. She advocates for responsible and ethical research evaluation by working with partners across campus to bring awareness and insight into how the academic incentive system and academic culture affects individual faculty members' well being, mental health, publication behavior, and motivations.

In her position, Miles works with individual faculty members, researchers, and administrators to populate researcher profile systems, the Research Information Management (RIM) system, interpret and visualize research impact data, and analyze research and researcher data.

Miles is also the library liaison to the Virginia Tech Psychology Department and the School of Neuroscience and offers faculty, staff, and students consultation, instruction, and reference answers to research questions, search strategies, and database inquiries.

Emily Mazure

Research Impact Librarian
University Libraries

Emily Mazure is the Research Impact Librarian at Virginia Tech University Libraries. She specializes in providing support to individuals, teams, departments, and others to increase the visibility of their work and thus their impact. She can help with activities such as managing scholarly profiles online, including Elements and Virginia Tech Experts, to exploring alternative scholarly metrics or finding strategic collaborators.