Go Forth, Young Scholar: How to Use SSRN to Get Your Work Noticed

Years ago, scholars and scientists kept their research secret. New scientific discoveries had to be guarded jealously, using coded language and ciphers, for fear a competitor could steal the data and claim it as their own. Nowadays this is no longer the case, and the best thing to do with a new, early-stage research paper is to share it as broadly as possible. The more papers you add to SSRN, the more your reputation as a scholar grows, and the more likely your research is to be cited in others’ work. Any scholarly research you’ve produced is eligible for inclusion in SSRN’s eLibrary, even work you produced when you were a student and published work (provided with written permission from the journal publisher).