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How do I get citations for my articles?

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The honest community answer: you write useful research and other researchers who needed it cite it; from writing to a decent citation count usually takes two to three years. If you built your career as a practitioner and never needed cited papers, waiting for citations for the criterion is a bad idea - lean on other strengths that cannot be bought. A technical tip: assign a DOI to your articles - databases pick up citations through it, plain links can break, a DOI does not.
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The answers below are translated from the original Russian - the language of the community chats.

  • It's quite simple: you write a valuable scientific work, and other researchers cite it because they find it useful. The time from the start of writing the work to achieving a respectable number of citations usually takes two to three years.

  • It's good when you are twenty and have time to wait for citations. But if you've built a career for your entire life, are successful as a specialist, and these articles were not necessary even ten years ago, and you seem to meet all the criteria for a talent visa, waiting for citations to fulfill this criterion is not a great idea. I believe it's better to focus on other strengths that cannot be written for the same money.

  • Yes, I assigned a DOI, and it's better to have one. Databases pull citations through DOI, while regular links can break. It's necessary for proper citation, and it is considered when your articles are checked in the databases.

The answers are anonymized community experience from the public chats, not legal advice. Officers may decide similar cases differently.

Why "Scholarly authorship" gets refused

Accepted in 44% of challenged petitions (86 of 196); not an approval rate.

The articles are not shown to be scholarly in nature. Columns, blog posts and round-ups do not satisfy this criterion.

All refusal grounds and the sample

Sources

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