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Impact
Measuring all the Factors around Social Science Impact

As part of a larger effort to support social scientists achieve and demonstrate impact, SAGE Publishing brought together 14 individuals who are both passionate about social science’s impact and intimately involved in improving its measurement for a one-day workshop.
The Emerging UK Policy Landscape for Researchers

In this first in a series of articles about impact, Louis Coiffait will provide an overview of the current situation for researchers (including social scientists) in the United Kingdom, in particular looking at the impact and knowledge exchange frameworks.
Open Scholarship Means We Must Rethink How to Measure Impact

Sascha Friesike, Benedikt Fecher and Gert. G. Wagner outline three systemic shifts in scholarly communication that render traditional measures of impact outdated and call for a renewed debate on how we understand and measure research impact.

“SAGE is creating for the Social Sciences the 21st Century equivalent of the Town Square, Library, and Water Cooler all rolled into one extraordinarily impressive website. This is a bold new endeavor, which is as timely as it is promising. The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University is proud to be a partner in this exciting project.”
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Founding Dean, Minerva Project

