Standing out of the crowd – How can researchers be more visible?

To be or not to be visible, this is the crucial question for researchers!

Within the national project Austrian Transition to Open Access 2 (AT2OA²) the Subproject 5 “Visibility of Open Access Publications” was dedicated, among other things, to whether Open Access, in addition to improving the availability of scholarly publications, also contributes to increasing visibility.
Alternative metrics (altmetrics) served as the primary hook and vehicle for investigating this and other questions, since citation-based metrics are no longer the sole indicators of the reception of scientific achievements.
A particular focus of the activities was realizing a study in cooperation with Altmetric (Digital Science).

A set of recommendations for researchers on how to increase the visibility of scholarly achievements was formulated as a deliverable.
However, to be honest, how many recommendations are already out there? And how many of them really attract the attention of researchers in its typical presentation? 🤔
The answers are “too many” and “none”. That is why we wanted to do a visual translation of these recommendations into a Science Comic that is equally appealing and edutaining.
So enjoy the final product “Standing out of the crowd”, which was brilliantly illustrated by none other than the internationally renowned Matteo Farinella.


Farinella, M., Ferus, A., Gumpenberger, C., Hölbling, L., & Schilhan, L. (2024). Standing out of the crowd – How can researchers be more visible?. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13983337