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Elevating your Online Profile as a Researcher

This guide is designed to highlight the various tools and services which you can use to be more visible as a researcher in the online environment.

Academia.edu

Academia.edu'The world's largest open access library in your pocket...' is a multidisciplinary academic networking site with over 13 million members, holding over 36 million academic papers. Good for showcasing your publications and providing basic statistics relating to their downloads. It has a strong profile and CV feature, which is great for showcasing your achievements and expertise. Available measures of impact include counts for profile views, document views, document downloads, unique visitors, external links to documents, geographic distribution of visitors and referrals. 

You can create a free account and begin sharing your work. You must be a registered user to upload content to the site.