Biomedical Publishing

Author Disambiguation

• Use the same variation of your name throughout your publishing career. If your name is common, consider including a middle name to distinguish it from other authors.  
• Use a standard version of your affiliation and do not abbreviate (e.g. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center instead of DHMC).
• Use corporate authors and research group names consistently (The Dartmouth Institute vs The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice).
• Create an ORCID identifier. ORCID provides a unique persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers and supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities. Visit: https://orcid.org/.

Disseminating Your Research

• Review publisher copyright policies and when possible, retain rights for re-use of your work.
• Consider publishing in an open access journal or depositing your article in an open access repository, such as the Dartmouth Digital Commons
• Present preliminary and finished research at conferences and/or as a preprint.
• Follow up preliminary research findings with a published manuscript.
• Publish in journals currently indexed by PubMed/MEDLINE or the primary article database for your discipline.
• When possible, make conference presentations publicly available.