Increasing citations to your work

If you think citations do not matter for nurse academics, then do not read on. There seems to be a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction among our colleagues to almost any mention of citations and this is often expressed as pearls of wisdom such as: ‘citations don't matter’; ‘impact factors of journals don't matter’; and ‘h-indices don't mean anything. This is often compounded by: ‘we need other ways of measuring the impact of publications’, but this is never...