You Were Taught to Publish.
Nobody Taught You to Be Found.
Researchvy Academy is the only professional development platform built specifically for researchers who want their work to be discovered, cited, funded, and recognised — on every platform that matters.
Five structured levels. Self-paced. Built for researchers in Nigeria, Africa, the USA, Europe, and beyond. Start free — no payment, no commitment.
Free preview lessons available on every module. No credit card required.
The Gap Nobody Talks About
The System Is Running Your Career.
Most Researchers Don't Know How.
Three truths about academic careers that your institution never told you — and that this Academy exists to fix.
You published. Nobody found you.
Publishing and being discovered are two completely separate steps. Most researchers only take the first one. The systems that decide whether your work gets found — Scopus, Google Scholar, ORCID, Web of Science — require active management. Nobody teaches you this at PhD orientation.
Your metrics are being used to judge you — and you can't read them.
Your h-index, your citation count, your journal quartile — a promotion committee is looking at these right now. If you don't know how they're calculated, why they differ across platforms, or what score you actually need for your next milestone, you're being assessed by a system you don't understand.
The researchers getting cited are not necessarily the best. They're the most visible.
Bibliometric research consistently shows that citation count correlates weakly with research quality. What it correlates strongly with is discoverability — titles, keywords, profile completeness, open access status. This is learnable. Every researcher in this Academy learns it.
Research Identity:
Be Found Where It Counts
Seven modules. 36 lessons. Everything you need to build a verified, cross-platform scholarly identity that the systems running your career can find — and act on.
7
Modules
36
Lessons
Free
Previews
Why You're Invisible — And What the System Isn't Telling You
4 lessons · Free
Scopus Decoded — The Platform That Decides Promotions & Grants
6 lessons · Free
Google Scholar Mastery — Fix the Errors Costing You Citations
5 lessons · Free
ORCID — The 30-Minute Setup That Connects Everything, Forever
5 lessons · Free
How Citations Actually Work — and Why You Deserve More
5 lessons · Free
The h-Index Explained — What That Number Means for Your Career
6 lessons · Free
How Journals and Databases Find — or Lose — Your Research
5 lessons · Free
The Complete Journey
Five Levels. One Career Transformation.
Each level builds on the last. You move from invisible to discoverable, from confused by metrics to strategic about them, from locally known to globally positioned.
Level 1 · Research Identity
Be Found Where It Counts
Build a verified, cross-platform scholarly identity that discovery systems, promotion panels, and grant reviewers can actually find.
Level 2 · Research Intelligence
Read the Numbers Running Your Career
Understand and use every metric that drives promotion decisions, grant awards, and institutional recognition — bibliometrics, h-index strategy, journal rankings, citation intelligence.
Level 3 · Research Presence
Build the Platform the World Can Find
Extend your visibility beyond databases — LinkedIn authority, personal website, research newsletter, social media presence that positions you as a credible public expert.
Level 4 · Research Impact
Make Your Work Change the World
Translate your research into policy briefs, media coverage, community partnerships, and real-world decisions that cite your work and elevate your institutional standing.
Level 5 · Research Leadership
Lead the Future of Scholarship
Shape institutional research culture, pioneer open science practices, build mentorship programmes, and become the researcher others benchmark themselves against.
Built for Researchers Everywhere
The Stakes Are Real — Wherever You Are
The platforms that run academic careers are global. But the consequences of ignoring them are felt locally — in promotions denied, grants not awarded, and collaborations that never happened.
Nigeria & West Africa
“Your promotion committee opens Scopus first. Do you know what they see?”
NUC assessments, TETFUND grants, and university promotion panels from Lecturer II to Professor all use Scopus metrics as the primary measure of research output. Researchers with incomplete or fragmented profiles are passed over — not because their work is weak, but because the system cannot find it.
USA & Canada
“Your NIH biosketch, your tenure file, and your NSF application all depend on metrics you may not be managing.”
NIH requires ORCID for all principal investigators. NSF grant reviewers weight Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts using your citation record. Tenure committees at research universities now benchmark your h-index against field norms. Are you measuring up — or are you below average without knowing it?
Europe & UK
“EU Horizon requires ORCID. ERC reviewers benchmark your h-index. Are your profiles ready?”
EU Horizon Europe requires named researchers to have ORCID iDs. ERC Starting and Consolidator grants are assessed in part on bibliometric evidence. The REF (UK) and ERA (Australia) frameworks affect institutional funding directly. This Academy teaches you to build the profile that passes any European institutional review.
Africa & Global South
“African research is underrepresented in global databases. You can change that — starting with your own profile.”
Researchers across Africa produce significant scholarly output that is systematically underrepresented in Scopus and Web of Science — partly due to journal indexing gaps, partly due to profile errors that could be fixed in an afternoon. This Academy was built with African researchers as a primary audience, not an afterthought.
Why Researchvy Academy
No Other Platform Teaches This
Built Around Your Career, Not Generic Learners
Every lesson connects directly to a promotion panel, a grant application, a citation count, or a discoverability outcome. Nothing here is theoretical padding.
Africa and the Global South as the Primary Audience
Most platforms treat Nigeria and Africa as afterthoughts. We built this for Nigerian and African researchers first — with TETFUND, NUC, and Scopus at the centre of every example.
Certification That Links to Your Scholarly Identity
Course completion certificates connect to your ORCID, appear on your LinkedIn profile, and are verifiable. This is not a participation certificate — it is a credential.
Action-First, Not Lecture-First
Every lesson ends with a specific, immediately doable action step. You leave each lesson having changed something in your actual scholarly profiles — not just having watched a video.
Aligned to Global Standards
Lessons are structured around Bloom's Taxonomy outcomes, CPD-standard objectives, and professional certification frameworks. This is not informal learning — it is professional development.
Level 1 Is Fully Free
Every lesson in Level 1 (36 lessons across 7 modules) is 100% free — no login required to sample, no payment, no form. Start immediately and experience the full quality before committing to Levels 2–5.
Researchvy Academy
Self-paced · Level 1 free
Five structured levels. Work at your own pace. No deadline, no cohort, no facilitator required. Designed for researchers who want to build visibility independently.
Digital Visibility Clinic — Separate Product
Live · Paid · Cohort-based
An entirely separate Researchvy programme. Small groups, expert facilitator, real-time profile review. Neither depends on the other — you choose which fits your situation.
Learn about the clinic →Your Next Step
The Researchers Getting Found
Started Exactly Here.
Level 1 is live. The first lesson of every module is free. You can begin right now — no payment, no registration, no commitment. Spend 15 minutes on the first lesson and decide whether this changes how you think about your research career. We are confident it will.
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