A space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
This free-to-watch webinar, subtitled “A Decade of DORA: Lessons Learned for Social and Behavioral Science ,” hosts panelists from the U.S. Social Science Research Council, Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Georgia Tech (and formerly the National Science Foundation).
A new blue-ribbon council convened by the United States’ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine aims to tackle questions about nettlesome issues like conflict of interest, measuring impact and handling retractions.
Editor’s Note: This resource will evolve over time. If you’ve seen impact-related language on a grant application and would like […]
Over the years, Australia has had a confused relationship with the impact agenda, with much of this grounded in the vagaries of government. When the idea of a national exercise to evaluate research was first touted in the form of the Research Quality Framework, the focus was to be on both quality and…
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.
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 G. Wagner outline three systemic shifts in scholarly communication that render traditional measures of impact outdated and call for a renewed debate on how we understand and measure research impact.
