A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
Blog posts and resources demonstrating the impact of the social and behavioral sciences in policy , society and academe.
The Organization Studies and SAGE Student Paper Impact Award is awarded annually to reward post-graduate students who have written a paper that has generated considerable societal impact.
The annual award ceremony for the Golden Goose Award will take place on September 14, 2022, starting at 6:30 p.m. […]
Through the SSRC’s Mercury Project, a first cohort of 12 teams from 17 countries is tasked with researching locally tailored solutions on how bad health information spreads, how to combat it, how to build stronger information systems, and how to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.
An academic paper that asserts you can present nearly any research finding as significant would be widely read and cited has received more that 4,000 citations since it was published in 2011.
The story of the book ‘Nudge’ offers insights into what can happen when research has an unpredictably large impact in the world of politics and policy
“When you educate a man, you educate a person, but when you educate a woman, you educate an entire generation.” The same applies to empowering women to find their footing in organized employment.
A 2011 paper on Amazon’s then-new and innovative Mechanical Turk, which among other things crowdsources prospective participants for social and behavioral research via an online marketplace, has garnered 7,500 citations in the subsequent decade.
One reason that many social scientists care about impact is that they see in social science the promise of and a path for knowledge – data, analysis, concepts – shaping the world they want to make.
A paper looking at the Danish National Patient Register has proved one of the most cited papers published by SAGE in 2011.
Can ethnography, long characterized as a lower tier of evidence in studying drug use, find things other approaches miss?
How can organizations get their members to engage in sustainability practices? The authors outlines several mechanisms.
If traditional filters of prestige are themselves steeped in a set of tacit values that may no longer adequately respect the modes of labor (or the laborers themselves), then when better to step back for a moment to ask what we are counting — and why?
