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Maybe You Can Judge a Journal by Its Cover: What Titles and Mission Statements Tell Us
Communication
April 18, 2022

Maybe You Can Judge a Journal by Its Cover: What Titles and Mission Statements Tell Us

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Pandemic Shows We Must Recraft Editorial Ethics in Academic Publishing
Communication
April 8, 2022

Pandemic Shows We Must Recraft Editorial Ethics in Academic Publishing

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Wha …? Citation Counts Aren’t Necessarily a Proxy for Influence? 
Impact
February 22, 2022

Wha …? Citation Counts Aren’t Necessarily a Proxy for Influence? 

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Project X: Resetting Our Understanding of Impact from Outputs to People
Impact
February 21, 2022

Project X: Resetting Our Understanding of Impact from Outputs to People

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When Talking Broader Impact, Which Websites Do We Value?

When Talking Broader Impact, Which Websites Do We Value?

Reporting on their recent survey of websites cited in REF 2014 impact case studies, Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall and Mahshid Abdoli, discuss which websites are most commonly used as supporting evidence for impact and how these vary across academic disciplines.

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Unlocking Real-World Data Offers Real Benefits to Public Health

Unlocking Real-World Data Offers Real Benefits to Public Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced the potential and risks of linked real word datasets to accelerate and produce new improvements in public health. In this post, the authors outline the opportunities and challenges of using real world data as part of the ‘Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice’ project.

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Would You Forego Citations for Journal Status?

Would You Forego Citations for Journal Status?

Presenting evidence from a new analysis of business and management academics, the authors explore how journal status is valued by these academics and the point at which journal status becomes more prized than academic influence.

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Hear, Hear! Audio Has a Role as a Serious Pedagogic Resource

Hear, Hear! Audio Has a Role as a Serious Pedagogic Resource

Mark Carrigan reflects on how research listening has shaped his own practice and how an implicit assumption of its secondary relationship to reading, may limit our appreciation of engaging with research in a multi-modal fashion.

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Has COVID Created a ‘Lost Generation’ of Early Career Researchers?

Has COVID Created a ‘Lost Generation’ of Early Career Researchers?

A year ago the potential impact of COVID-19 on precarious early career researchers (ECRs) looked bleak. Reporting on findings from the longitudinal Harbingers 2 project, David Nicholas suggests the effects of COVID-19 on ECR researchers have been varied internationally. Where pressures from the pandemic have been felt most acutely, particularly in the UK, US and France, it has often aligned with perceptions of ongoing structural issues within academia.

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In Praise of Those ‘Less Prestigious’ Journals

In Praise of Those ‘Less Prestigious’ Journals

Shannon Mason and Margaret K. Merga argue that researchers should adopt more careful citation practices, as a means to broaden and contextualise what counts as ‘prestigious’ research and create a more equitable publishing environment for research outside of core anglophone countries.

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Getting a Handle on Both Societal and Scientific Impact

Getting a Handle on Both Societal and Scientific Impact

In this post, Jorrit Smit and Laurens Hessels, draw on a recent analysis of different impact evaluation tools to explore how they constitute and direct conceptions of research impact. Finding a common separation between evaluation focused on scientific and societal impact, they suggest bridging this divide may prove beneficial to producing research that has public value, rather than research that achieves particular metrics.

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Does Research Being in a Review Article Cannibalize Your Citations?

Does Research Being in a Review Article Cannibalize Your Citations?

Review papers play a significant role in curating the scholarly record. Drawing on a study of close to six million research articles, Peter McMahan, shows how review papers not only focus and shift attention onto particular papers, but also serve to shape entire research domains by linking them together and outlining core concepts. As such, the constitutive role of review papers and those who write them warrant further attention.

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