{"id":3172,"date":"2023-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pl-asapbio.local\/how-to-increase-the-visibility-of-your-research-by-preprinting-your-poster\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:30:45","slug":"how-to-increase-the-visibility-of-your-research-by-preprinting-your-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asapbio.org\/how-to-increase-the-visibility-of-your-research-by-preprinting-your-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"How to increase the visibility of your research by preprinting your poster"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the fall conference season approaches, consider maximizing the impact of your talk or poster by posting it as a preprint!<\/p>\n

While you can also archive your slides or the image of your poster on Zenodo<\/a>, Figshare<\/a>, or another repository (a great way to increase your visibility and get a DOI), there are several benefits to writing up your work in a narrative article:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a more complete record.<\/strong> By adding a complete methods section and context in the form of an introduction, you can give other researchers tools to better understand your work. <\/li>\n
  2. Gain more visibility and feedback from colleagues. <\/strong>Unlike posters listed on many of the repositories above, preprints are well-integrated into infrastructure for discovering and commenting. For example, preprints appear on Google Scholar, Europe PMC, and if you\u2019re an NIH-funded author, PMC. People in your field may already be signed up for email alerts from these databases or from bioRxiv itself. Furthermore, bioRxiv preprints get automatically added to your ORCiD record, via Crossref.<\/li>\n
  3. Make it easy for others to cite you. <\/strong>While anything on the web can be cited, the fact that preprints are publicly available in their entirety, permanently archived, and included in the databases listed above means that your colleagues will face fewer obstacles to citing them. <\/li>\n
  4. Cite your own preprint in grant applications and reports<\/strong>. Many funders explicitly mention preprints, though NIH allows all interim products to be cited this way<\/li>\n
  5. Improve your elevator pitch<\/strong>. Writing sharpens your thinking, and starting to think about the narrative will give you an edge as you prepare your poster or talk. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Preprinted posters at ASCB\u2019s Cell Bio 2022<\/h3>\n

    But don\u2019t take it from us. Here are some stories from researchers who had a preprint alongside their poster at Cell Bio 2022, ASCB\u2019s annual meeting.<\/p>\n

    Yutong X. Xiao, now a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, presented her preprint<\/a>, \u201cAn expandable FLP-ON::TIR1 system for precise spatiotemporal protein degradation in C. elegans<\/em>,\u201d as a poster at Cell Bio 2022. While she had the preprint first, she also sees the benefit in making the poster out of a preprint. <\/p>\n

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    I feel for me it\u2019s easy to make the poster once I have the preprint since I already organized each section\/result (with details of legend and text); a poster is just a simplified way to demonstrate the results. But if you have the poster first, I assume it\u2019s also a helpful way to outline the manuscript.<\/p>\n

    Yutong X. Xiao<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    Takonobu A. Katoh, an Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology at the University of Tokyo, felt that having his preprint<\/a>, \u201cImmotile cilia of the mouse node sense a fluid flow\u2013induced mechanical force for left-right symmetry breaking,\u201d available alongside his poster had \u201cmany positive effects.\u201d<\/p>\n

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