Academic and Research Skills
Basic Science
Career Development
Clinical Research
Health Services Research
Cynthia Bearer, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)
Professor of Pediatrics, Wm. & Lois Briggs Chair of Neonatology, Chief of Neonatology
Pediatrics
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital/Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Eleanor Molloy, MB PhD FRCPI (she/her/hers)
Chair and Professor of Paediatrics
Trinity College, Paediatrics and Child Health
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Damian Roland, BMed Sci BMBS PhD
Professor of Children's Emergency Medicine
Leicester Hospitals and University
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Workshop Description: Maximizing the impact your paper increases the impact your work has on the field, your team, your patients and you! This workshop will provide the methods used, both pre- and post- publication, that can increase the impact of your paper. Pre-publication methods include tailoring your reference list to include highly cited authors, writing a good article abstract that includes both keywords and MeSH terms, making your title short and to the point, creating eye-catching figures and using the recommendations in ASEO (Academic Search Engine Optimization).
Post publication methods include various actions by journal editors that include general strategies, as well as ones focused on your paper. General strategies include promoting authenticity of the journal (projecting clear standards for publications, listing affiliations of all key staff of the journal with contact information, including Managing Editor, Editors-in-Chief and all Editorial Board members, clear ethics policies and a process to reinforce them (membership in COPE), short turnaround times, free access. Journal methods that target your publication are press release nominations, journal social and traditional media communications, collections and pediapods.
Workshop participants will be invited to bring their manuscripts hopefully on a laptop in preparation for on hands assistance with using these tools to increase impact. Nearly all topics involve interaction and the social media editors will also be actively engaging both inside and outside of the session to demonstrate some of the principles involved in information dissemination in real-time.
