Communications Toolkit
This toolkit provides guidance on how to showcase your participation in the Impact Scholars Program and maximize the visibility of your achievements. You'll find recommendations for sharing your certificate, micropublication, and other research outputs across professional platforms such as LinkedIn and ORCID, as well as guidance for future publications, presentations, and research dissemination activities.
Showcase your ISP Certificate on LinkedIn
Adding your certificate to LinkedIn helps highlight your participation in the program and makes it visible to your professional network.
Add a License & Certification
Go to your LinkedIn profile.
Locate the Licenses & Certifications section.
- If the section already exists, click the + button.
- If it does not exist:
- Click Add profile section
- Select Recommended
- Choose Add licenses and certifications
Complete the fields:
Name: 2025 Impact Scholar Program
Issuing Organization: Neuromatch
Media: Upload your certificate as media. You may also wish to upload additional materials, such as:
- Your General Public Summary
- Final presentation slides
- Poster or visual abstract
- Other project outputs
Showcase Your Micropublication
If your project resulted in a micropublication, we encourage you to add it to your LinkedIn profile.
Add a Publication
Go to your LinkedIn profile.
Locate the Publications section.
- If the section already exists, click the + button.
- If it does not exist:
- Click Add profile section
- Select Recommended
- Choose Publications
Enter in the information about the publication as prompted:
Publisher: Neuromatch
URL: [DOI or Zenodo Link]
Add your fellow scholars and supervisors as co-authors where appropriate.
Add Your Achievements to ORCID
ORCID provides a persistent scholarly record that can be shared across institutions, publishers, funders, and professional networks.
We encourage you to add both your micropublication and your participation in the Impact Scholar Program to your ORCID profile.
Add your Micropublication
Add your publication to the Works section of your ORCID record.
Include:
- Publisher (Neuromatch)
ORCID guide: https://support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/articles/360006973133-Add-works-to-your-ORCID-record
Add your Program Participation and Certificate
You may also add your participation in the program as a qualification or educational activity.
Organization: Neuromatch
Qualification: Impact Scholars Program
ORCID guide: https://support.orcid.org/hc/en-us/articles/360006973933-Add-an-education-or-qualification-to-your-ORCID-record
For additional guidance, see the Neuromatch ORCID Affiliation Guide: 📖ORCID Affiliation Guide
Share Your Achievement
We would love to celebrate your success with you.
Consider sharing a LinkedIn post about your experience and tag:
- Neuromatch
- Your supervisor
- Fellow scholars
- Collaborators
Adding photos, screenshots, presentation slides, certificates, or links to your publication can help increase visibility and engagement.
Sample LinkedIn Post
Feel free to use and edit the text below; tag us so we can interact and celebrate your success!:
I'm excited to share that I have completed/participated in the 2025 Impact Scholar Program with @Neuromatch! It was a six month mentored research program for early-career computational scientists that continued my learning in @Neuromatch Academy/@Climatematch Academy. https://neuromatch.io/impact-scholars-program/
During the program, [reflect on what you learnt. Tag those you worked with and your supervisor]
[During the program, I contributed to research in [field of study] through the project "[project title]". You can explore the full project here: [DOI link]]
Thank you to everyone who made this experience possible!
Publication and Dissemination guidelines
When preparing publications, presentations, posters, preprints, or other 📌research outputs arising from your Scholars Program project , please include an acknowledgment of the program's support.
You may use the following template:
This work was supported by Neuromatch Academy [or Climatematch Academy] through the Impact Scholars Program. We thank all members of our project group for their contributions, especially those involved in the early stages of the project. In particular, we acknowledge [Name(s)] for their valuable input during the initial planning and exploration phases.
Open Access publication is expected for any resulting academic articles, as per our Publication and Presentation policy.
Questions?
If you have any questions about your certificate, micropublication, authorship, DOI, ORCID profile, publication guidelines, or communications materials, please contact the Impact Scholars team: impactscholars@neuromatch.io
We're happy to help and would love to hear about any publications, presentations, awards, or other achievements that emerge from your project!