With so many sources competing for the attention of people around the world, getting eyes on your research may seem more difficult than ever before. More article views can ensure that your hard work reaches the people who can use it in their daily jobs and in their future research studies. What’s more, it can serve to give you a leg up on your CV and can create opportunities to advance your career.
Since 2022, more than 50% of Americans have been saying that they get their news from social media either sometimes or often. Using social media can help you expand the reach of your research and get more eyes on your articles.
Increasing Your Impact
Universities, companies, and even private practices use online tools to spread awareness and connect with people on a more personal basis. Using social media professionally can help you increase your professional network—and that can lead to exciting opportunities and promising new partnerships that you may not have otherwise known about or received.
By promoting your findings via social media, you’re demonstrating pride in your work and giving people who might be interested in your research an opportunity to connect and collaborate with you. When you promote your article online, you’re giving past, present, and perhaps even future colleagues a look at the latest research in your field.
Reaching New Audiences
Although social media is an imperfect way to convey information, recent estimates show a reality that is difficult to ignore: More than 60% of the world’s population is on social media. Social media usage has become a part of people’s everyday lives around the world for more than 20 years—including ASHA’s clinicians and school-based practitioners.
Busy clinicians may not think that they have the time to read the latest research published in the ASHA Journals, but they may (and probably do!) find themselves on social media connecting with friends, family, and colleagues. Those very individuals may be connected, themselves, to audiologists and SLPs whom you wouldn’t otherwise know! By posting your work on multiple social media platforms, you can ensure that your research makes its way, organically and exponentially, to people who can use it—wherever they are!
ASHA Journals on Social Media
You can find ASHA Journals on three different social media platforms: Bluesky, LinkedIn, and X (formerly known as Twitter). When you connect with us online, you can interact with posts about your work to amplify your impact. You can also see what your colleagues are publishing and lend them a hand as well (i.e., like and share their posts on their work).
Our newest platform is LinkedIn, where you’ll find updates on special issues and forums, new blog posts, and information on our editorial boards, including how you, too, can get involved! We also feature one article weekly on all three of our socials as part of our Research Tuesday initiative (which we’ve been hosting and promoting on X and Facebook since 2015), and we post information on upcoming calls for papers.
In 2024, we added Bluesky to our repertoire, posting daily updates from all five of our journals as well as our weekly Research Tuesday post. Be sure to follow us there so that you don’t miss a post! You can also follow us on X, where we’ve been highlighting new articles for more than a decade!
Maximizing Your Impact
When you submit an article to ASHA Journals via Editorial Manager, you can include your Bluesky or X handle so that we can tag you when posting about your research. We also give you the opportunity to include a sample post upon submission to help us publicize your work in your own words.
Sharing your research on social media is easy and can help you maximize the impact of your hard work. We hope that you’ll join our thousands of followers by connecting with ASHA Journals on whatever digital platform you use.
