Impact

NYU’s Social Science for Impact Forum
International Debate
March 5, 2020

NYU’s Social Science for Impact Forum

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Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth: Economics Can Save Lives
Impact
October 29, 2019

Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth: Economics Can Save Lives

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Evidence Week: My Journey to the UK Parliament
Impact
October 7, 2019

Evidence Week: My Journey to the UK Parliament

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Don’t Just Publish and Hope – Get Creative to Have Impact
Academic Funding
October 2, 2019

Don’t Just Publish and Hope – Get Creative to Have Impact

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Maximizing the Utility of Open Science

Maximizing the Utility of Open Science

A key political driver of open access and open science policies has been the potential economic benefits that they could deliver to public and private knowledge users. However, the empirical evidence for these claims is rarely substantiated. In this post Michael Fell, discusses how open research can lead to economic benefits and suggests that if these benefits are to be more widely realized, future open research policies should focus on developing research discovery, translation and the capacity for research utilization outside of the academy.

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How Could Google Scholar (and the Citation System) Be Improved?

How Could Google Scholar (and the Citation System) Be Improved?

To end his trilogy of articles on the research metric system (and Google Scholar in particular), Louis Coiffait explores what improvements could be made.

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How Google Scholar Judges Research

How Google Scholar Judges Research

Louis Coiffait’s third article in his series on impact looks at the system of citation metrics, in particular Google Scholar.

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

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.

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Leadership and the UK General Election 2017

Leadership and the UK General Election 2017

For social scientists, there must be a concern that a generation’s worth of accumulated empirical evidence on effective leadership has made so little impact on the candidates in the upcoming General Election in the United Kingdom.

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Let’s Play Fantasy Football for Big Thinkers

Let’s Play Fantasy Football for Big Thinkers

If you were to make up a fantasy football team for, say an intellectual Premier League, which thinks from Socrates forward might be among your picks?

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Quantophrenia is Back in Town

Quantophrenia is Back in Town

Many social scientists find themselves members of a cult of quantification, argues Robert Dingwall, in love with numbers for their own sake even when those numbers produce no useful knowledge.

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Tamiflu and the Ethics of the British Medical Journal

Tamiflu and the Ethics of the British Medical Journal

No one expected Tamiflu to be a wonder drug, but indications are that it’s moderately useful in fighting a serious public health threat. But that message was lost last week in an ill-starred rush to beat up on ‘wicked’ Big Pharma, argues Robert Dingwall.

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