Impact

At a Glance: The UK’s Twin-track Approach to Measuring Impact
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March 18, 2019

At a Glance: The UK’s Twin-track Approach to Measuring Impact

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The Risks of Doing Research That Has Impact
Impact
March 13, 2019

The Risks of Doing Research That Has Impact

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DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research
Higher Education Reform
March 6, 2019

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

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Academe Just Doesn’t Talk Enough about Research Metrics
Impact
February 25, 2019

Academe Just Doesn’t Talk Enough about Research Metrics

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The Impact Chain – How to Craft an Effective Impact Narrative

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

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Measuring all the Factors around Social Science Impact

Measuring all the Factors around Social Science Impact

Sage 4081 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.

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The Emerging UK Policy Landscape for Researchers

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.

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Open Scholarship Means We Must Rethink How to Measure Impact

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 G. Wagner outline three systemic shifts in scholarly communication that render traditional measures of impact outdated and call for a renewed debate on how we understand and measure research impact.

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The Pragmatic Utopian: Erik Olin Wright, 1947-2019

The Pragmatic Utopian: Erik Olin Wright, 1947-2019

Sociologist Erik Olin Wright, who died last week at age 71, spent his career trying to imagine practical alternatives to capitalism.

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Rethinking Research Impact in International Development

Rethinking Research Impact in International Development

In addition to the established impact agenda, those doing research for development now also have to contend with the Overseas Development Assistance research agenda. Valeria Izzi observes that while there are clear similarities between the two, so far remarkably little reflection has gone into how they fit together.

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Here Is the Science Behind Scheduling Social Media

Here Is the Science Behind Scheduling Social Media

Bringing science to science communications: Social media post scheduling long has been an art, not a science. A new study reveals the impact of time of day, targeted content advertising, and content type on link clicks and how these variables interact.

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Impact in Action: Denise Baden

Impact in Action: Denise Baden

Today Social Science Space completes a series drawn from five winners of Britain’s Economic and Social Science Research Council’s 2018 Impact Prize to learn how they built meaningfulness into their own research and how they measure impact more broadly. We end with Denise Baden of the University of Southampton, winner of the Outstanding Impact in Business and Enterprise prize.

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