Research Impact
“Research impact is the demonstrable contribution that research makes to the economy, society, culture, national security, public policy or services, health, the environment, or quality of life, beyond contributions to academia”
Australian Research Council
DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers)
A DOI is a unique identifier for digital publications. If your article is published online it may be assigned a DOI by the publisher. If you are uploading your paper or data to a repository such as SSRN or Bridges, a DOI will be generated..
The DOI can be used to promote your work via social media and make sure metrics are obtained for the same publication.
Use Social media and Altmetrics
Altmetrics (or Alternative metrics) are part of a wider conversation around the use of measures t
o try and capture the potential impact of research within academia and beyond.
For an overview read this Library Blog post, Understanding Altmetrics
Find out more on the Altmetrics Library guide.
- Australian Law Blogs (Amicae Curiae)Keep up-to-date or contribute to blogs in your areas of research.
- LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog (London School of Economics)A blog for researchers and others "interested in maximising the impact of academic work in the social sciences and other disciplines."
- Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities: A guide for academics and researchersA useful guide by the Public Policy Group, London School of Economics.
Research impact books
- Maximising the Impacts of Your Research: A Handbook for Social ScientistsFree book from LSE Impact of Social Sciences
The Impact of the Social Sciences: How Academics and their Research Make a Difference by
1.The social sciences in modern research -- 1.1.The scale and diversity of the social sciences -- 1.2.The social sciences and human-dominated systems -- 1.3.Perceptions of `impact' from the social sciences -- Conclusions -- pt. I HOW ACADEMICS ACHIEVE EXTERNAL IMPACTS -- 2.Social scientists' pathways to impacts -- 2.1.The academic impacts of social science researchers -- 2.2.The external impacts of researchers -- 2.3.Profiling different types of academic and their impacts -- Conclusions -- 3.Modelling the determinants of social science impacts -- 3.1.Multi-variate modelling of impacts -- 3.2.The factors shaping academic impacts -- 3.3.The factors shaping external impacts -- Conclusions -- 4.Comparing individuals' impact -- 4.1.Using case studies of high impact academics -- 4.2.Explaining high impacts at the individual level -- 4.3.Pulling together the analysis -- Conclusions -- pt. II THE DEMAND FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH -- 5.Business and the corporate sector -- 5.1.The range of university links with business -- 5.2.The scale of social science involvement with business -- 5.3.Barriers to greater use of social science research in firms -- Conclusions -- 6.Government and public policy making -- 6.1.Social science and the policy arena -- 6.2.The scale of social science links to policy -- 6.3.Social scientists' influence on policy -- Conclusions -- 7.Civil society organizations and the third sector -- 7.1.Civil society organizations and `advocacy coalitions' -- 7.2.The scale of social science research links to civil society -- 7.3.Growing the impacts of social science in the third sector -- Conclusions -- 8.The media and public engagement -- 8.1.Academic expertise and `the public' -- 8.2.Social scientists and conventional news media -- 8.3.Social science and social media -- 8.4.Innovating with social science in the media -- Conclusions -- pt. III PATTERNS OF KNOWLEDGE AND IMPACTS -- 9.The dynamic knowledge inventory and research mediation -- 9.1.The dynamic knowledge inventory -- 9.2.The mediation of social science research -- Conclusions -- 10.Social science for a digital era -- 10.1.Joining up for a `broad-front' social science -- 10.2.Re-framing human-centred disciplines and integrating STEM and social sciences -- 10.3.Towards a more global social science -- Conclusions.
ISBN: 9781446275108Publication Date: 2014
Publish in The Conversation
- Pitch an article ideaWriting for the Conversation can increase impact.
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