Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
At a Glance: The UK’s Twin-track Approach to Measuring Impact
In his second article in a series on impact, Louis Coiffait looks at how REF and KEF treat impact in the UK.
The Risks of Doing Research That Has Impact
David Canter considers the emotional and physical challenges of field research and the limits of conventional ethical approval.
DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research
The U.S. military’s innovation incubator, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has signed the Center for Open Science to create a research claims database as DARPA’s first step to assign a ‘credibility score’ to social and behavioral science research.
Academe Just Doesn’t Talk Enough about Research Metrics
The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use. Why is there such a discrepancy between principle and practices?
The Impact Chain – How to Craft an Effective Impact Narrative
A vital part of any research assessment program is the ability to clearly demonstrate the impacts, whatever they may, of the research undertaken. In this post, Katy McEwan presents the impact chain approach for writing impact case studies. A method, which provides a framework for producing impact narratives
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 G. Wagner outline three systemic shifts in scholarly communication that render traditional measures of impact outdated and call for a renewed debate on how we understand and measure research impact.
