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I Couldn't Get Funding for My Research So I 'Sold Out'
Research used to be about the pursuit of knowledge, now it’s driven by impact and returns. The only way to survive is to change how we work
Citations Increase with Manuscript Length, Author Number, and References Cited in Ecology Journals
Citations Increase with Manuscript Length, Author Number, and References Cited in Ecology Journals
A paper that suggests that the imposition of arbitrary manuscript length limits discourages the publication of more impactful studies.
World Article Publishing Illustrates Regional Values
An interactive visualization of article publication data from the 2016 NSF Science & Engineering Report suggest discrepancies in the cultures of science around the world.
Why Scientists Should Learn to Love Reddit
You’ll find communities thirsty for your findings – and a space to demonstrate measurable ‘impact’ to your heart’s content.
Does Productivity Diminish Research Quality?
More papers correlate with top-cited research for more-established academics, but not newly minted professors, according to a study.
Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators
Complementarities and ambivalences in the development and use of indicators
The tension between simple but invalid indicators that are widely used and more sophisticated indicators that are not used or cannot be used in evaluation practices because they are not transparent for users, cannot be calculated, or are difficult to interpret.
Professor turns to novel writing as his research ‘had no impact’
Welfare state expert Peter Taylor-Gooby cheerfully admits his research has had no real-world influence – but hopes a book might.
Graphic details
A scientific study of the importance of diagrams to science
On the productivity of scientists
Ever since Reagan and Thatcher made neoliberal ideas palatable to an unsuspecting public, concepts such as “New Public Management” or the more general notion that competition between in…
Academic return
A broader understanding of 'impact' could help governments to measure the diverse benefits of their investment in research.
How can academia kick its addiction to the impact factor?
The impact factor is academia’s worst nightmare. So much has been written about its flaws, both in calculation and application, that there is little point in reiterating the same tired points here …
The Societal and Economic Impacts of Academic Research
A report produced by Digital Science, together with an international collaboration of leading higher education professionals and policy experts who give their views on the global impact agenda in research policy and discuss what evidence of impact is useful to them.
The unsung heroes of scientific software
Creators of computer programs that underpin experiments don’t always get their due — so the website Depsy is trying to track the impact of research code.
Impact is not importance
The use of journal impacts in evaluating individuals has its inherent dangers. In an ideal world, evaluators would read each article and make personal judgments.
I Like, I Cite? Do Facebook Likes Predict the Impact of Scientific Work?
Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences.
Impact, not impact factor
The scientific community must not rely exclusively on the impact factors of journals.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
Are there any lessons to be learnt from the field of healthcare quality which could improve our approach to assessing research quality?