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Promoting your article

We encourage authors to actively promote their articles globally to their colleagues and fellow researchers. Cambridge University Press provides a suite of resources to help you engage with your readership, increase your visibility and make your article more discoverable online.

Sharing your article

Cambridge University Press supports responsible social sharing of published research. This journal participates in Cambridge Core Share, a tool that enables readers to easily generate links to online, read-only journal articles that can be freely shared on social media sites and scholarly collaboration networks.

Please also check the details of your publishing agreement and our Green Open Access policy for details of how you may share the full text of your article.

Sharing your article - specific media platforms

We are delighted to have your article accepted for publication in the Review of International Studies.

We are keen for your article to be read as widely as possible. Given changes in how people access information and academic publications we have put together the following guidelines for you to promote your paper using a variety of media platforms.

You are under no obligation to do this and we understand that different authors are comfortable with different mediums of wider engagement, so please adopt whichever of these recommendations suit you and your work.

The RIS editors want to do more to support authors in post-publication and outline below suggestions of how we can work together. Should you have any questions or require advice on promoting your article please do not hesitate to contact our Editorial Manager Ellie Phillips via email ([email protected]).

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR ARTICLE:

Press Release

Once accepted, please forward your article to your institution’s Marketing, Public Relations or Media teams. This will allow them to read the paper for any potential news-content.

Such news-content could be expert opinion offered through a range of press such as radio, television or newspapers or a short 750 word commentary piece for international news outlets such as The Guardian or the LA Times, or policy-engaged outlets such as Open Democracy or The Conversation.

Should you proceed with a press release or short commentary publication please cite RIS as the source of publication and let us know so we can also promote the press coverage through our social media networks (see below).

Blog entry

Blogs are a good way of ensuring a wider readership of your article and communicating your ideas to a specialised audience.

A blog entry can be between 750-1500 words and is a good way of getting across your main argument in a pithy and provocative tone. Blog entries should not be re-written abstracts but fresh short pieces written to engage the audience.

You may wish to publish this on your own blog, that of your School/Department, or consider one of the many popular IR blogs such as The Duck of Minerva, The Monkey Cage, Feminist Academic Collective.

Twitter

If you have your own Twitter account:

  • Tweet the paper on publication
  • Ensure key colleagues involved in the debates you raise who also have a Twitter profile, retweet your initial tweet
  • Ask your School/Department/Faculty office and colleagues to tweet about your paper


If you do not have your own Twitter account:

  • Ask your School/Department/Faculty to send a tweet promoting the paper on your behalf


In the long term, should an issue of international concern arise that is linked to your paper please inform us. We can then liaise with CUP to un-gate your publication for a specific time period to ensure extended readership so your Twitter followers can click through to the full paper.

Facebook

If you have your own Facebook account:

  • Post a link to the publication on your homepage
  • Post a link to the publication on the pages of relevant group pages
  • Ask your School/Department/Faculty office and colleagues to post a link to your paper on their homepages


If you do not have your own Facebook account:

  • Ask your School/Department/Faculty office and colleagues to post a link to your paper on their homepages
  • Ask working groups that you are involved with to post a link to your paper on their Facebook pages


Google Scholar, Research Gate, Academia Edu, and Institutional Repository

Please do post the meta-data for your article on Google Scholar, Research Gate, Academia Edu and your institutional repository as a way of maximising the routes through which your article can be found and accessed, and as a way of increasing knowledge of your work among the scholarly community. Cambridge University Press allows you to archive the author’s final accepted version of the article, or ‘post-print’ version (but not the publisher’s PDF final version), on your personal website, institutional repository and social media, as well as on non-commercial subject-based repositories. Please do include a link to the published article on the Review of International Studies website.

Email Signature

Please add a reference and link to your article as the end of your email signature. This is the simplest and in many ways most effective means of communicating your new work to those colleagues you collaborate with and are more likely to cite your work.

If you do proceed with any of these ideas, please let us know ([email protected]) so we can help promote any associated outputs linked to your article.

WHAT WE WILL DO WITH YOUR ARTICLE:

Twitter

Upon publication @RISjnl and editorial board members will send a set of tweets promoting its content.

The keywords and content of your article will also be logged so that if an issue of international concern relating to the topic of your piece arises, @RISjnl will re-tweet the content and liaise with CUP to un-gate the article for a specified time period.

RIS Editors will be developing the @RISjnl feed to grow the number of followers and frequency and quality of the tweets to ensure your work is being promoted to a wide audience of academics, policy-makers, students, and journalists.

Email Digest

Your article will be included in the BISA monthly email digest with links to the paper and any associated media content.

Facebook

Your article will be promoted on the RIS Facebook page. We will also link this to any of the BISA working group pages that may be relevant to your article.

Blogs

For individual blogs, the most effective method of blogging is to establish independent relationships with blog editors. However, if you do not have existing relations with blog editors we would be happy to make suggestions and facilitate introductions where appropriate.

In collaboration with blog editors, RIS will develop the opportunity for specialist blog symposia, collected short interventions, and discussions based on articles and debates published in the journal.

Un-gate

Should an issue of international concern relating to your paper arise, we can liaise with CUP to have your paper un-gated and on the landing page of the RIS website.

The RIS team are always looking for ways to support authors. Therefore if there is something we can do to help promote your article that is not outlined above, do email us to let us know.

Impact of individual articles

Cambridge Core displays Altmetric Attention Scores to help authors and readers see how much attention an article is getting online. These are displayed alongside the article's title in the journal's table of contents. Please see our guide to Altmetric for more information.