CommunityData:Research dissemination

Public Dissemination of Research

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Overview

Congratulations on having your research submitted/accepted for publication! While this makes your research available to the academic community, there are several strategies you can employ to increase the impact of your work and make it more visible to a broader audience.

Although none of the research produced by the CDSC has included all of these outputs, we've compiled a list of activities that you might want to consider after publishing your work.

1. Open Access Publication

• OA paper/replication materials: Many of our previous projects include replication materials published to the CDSC Dataverse.

• Ideally, you will be able to publish your paper under an open access license.

• Preprint servers: Nearly all journals and proceedings allow for some version of a document to be uploaded to preprint servers like ArXiv. You should check the agreement for the specific publication venue; sometimes this has to be a pre-reviewed version, but often it is the version before the final typesetting (i.e., the version that was accepted). We typically use ArXiv or SocArXiv.

2. Spread the Word to Key Colleagues

• Email other researchers who you think should read the work with a PDF and/or link to the OA version of the work. Consider contacting former mentors/collaborators, people whose work you cite frequently, and individuals you would like to engage with who might appreciate your new contribution.

3. Spread the Word Online

• Make it concrete, practical, and problem/solution focused (rather than focused on theory, prior research, or scientific contributions alone).
• Blog post: Our research blog has many examples. Aim for a post around 800 words that is clear, concise, and interesting enough to encourage readers to delve into the paper. Including at least one image is recommended.
• Social media: The CDSC has accounts on Mastodon (social.coop) and Bluesky(?).
• Explainer video: (Example: hidden costs video)
• Post to Reddit: Relevant subreddits include r/CompSocial and r/science.

4. Spread the Word to Potential Non-Scholarly "End Users"

• Make it concrete, practical, and problem/solution focused (rather than focused on theory, prior research, or scientific contributions alone).
• Presentation to community/constituent conference/gathering
• Community dialogue
• Research briefing: 1-2pp documents that synthesize key findings and takeaways in a practitioner-oriented way. We're posting these to Zenodo (in the CDSC Zenodo group).

5. Press/Media Outreach

• Outreach to hypothetical readers/press
• University-specific press/PR folks