There are a number of ways one can increase research visibility and impact:
Use Kudos, a free platform for researchers to tell what your research is all about. Watch this video for introduction and follow few steps to connect and add publications using ORCID.
How to create a researcher profile account?
Open Researcher and Contributor iD
A tool that offers a solution to the author name and misidentification by providing a persistent unique iD’s for researchers.
Benefits of having an ORCID iD
Step 1: ORCID account
Step 2: Add personal information
Step 3: Add works or publications into your ORCID
Add works or publications from Scopus to ORCID
Add works or publications from Google Scholar to ORCID
How to add works or publications manually?
Step 4: Reset ORCID password, update ORCID records and delete duplicate ORCID iD
Steps to remove or delete duplicate ORCID iD's.
Step 5: Add ORCID iD icon and link to your email signature
Is widely used by scientists as it tracks and provide citations and metrics. Researchers affiliated with North-West University have created Google Scholar Profiles. Google scholar profile is useful in preserving and enhancing global visibility of research output of postgraduate students, early career researchers, eminent and even deceased scholars. Below are the steps to create Google Scholar Profile account
Step 1: Create an account
Step 2: Add publications
Step 3: Watch the video on how to create a Google Scholar Profile
Step 4: Congratulations!
Step 5: Clean up your Google Scholar Profile account
Browse through existing Google Scholar Profiles
How to create and connect Scopus Author Identifier?
See also notes on Scopus, h-index, Citations, Metrics, and Author Profiles
Publications are immediately imported from Web of Science through ORCID, or bibliographic reference manager like EndNote or Mendeley
How to create a Publons Profile? watch this video:
Browse through existing profiles