Strategies for Increasing Researchers’ and Institutional Ranking and Visibility

Abstract

This intellectual piece with the title, Strategies for Increasing Researchers’ and institutional Ranking and Visibility, is aimed at providing a panoramic investigation, exposition and impact of the “visible or vanish” research mantra which has created the visibility crisis in the knowledge industry. Departing from the premiss of an established correlation between research visibility, research citation and research impact, the work emphasizes the crucial role the power of digital technology plays in the diffusion of research outputs and optimizes the ideas of various experts into two manifold strategies for overcoming the visibility crisis, namely; Strategies for Researchers’ Visibility and Strategies for Institutional Ranking and Visibility. In its conclusion, the paper sustains the thesis that the looming “visible or vanish” mantra and the associated problem of visibility in the academia can be successfully liquidated if actors in the research industry implement the strategies articulated in this work.