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Archives: research impact

Revisiting: Measuring Societal Impact or, Meet the New Metric, Same as the Old Metric

Bringing back a post from 2018, as funders increasingly demand measurements of “real world” impact from researchers. Does this steer us toward the same traps we’re already in from the ways we already do research assessment and is this short-term thinking problematic for the future of science?

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 4, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — Improving Research Assessment One Tool at a Time: An Interview with Euan Adie of Overton

How can we measure the impact of research papers on influencing public policy? An interview with Euan Adie of Overton.

  • By Camille Gamboa
  • Feb 8, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

AI Beyond the Publishing Workflow

What uses for artificial intelligence (AI) might we expect outside of the publication workflow? Some answers to this question can be found through the lenses of sustainability, justice, and resilience.

  • By Haseeb Irfanullah
  • Aug 23, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

How Related are Journal Impact and Research Impact?

Journal-level impact feeds academic impact, which in turn feeds broader impacts potential

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Apr 11, 2023
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Unpacking The Altmetric Black Box

Article Attention Scores for papers don’t seem to add up, leading one to question whether Altmetric data are valid, reliable, and reproducible.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Aug 24, 2021
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

Maximizing the Impact of Research – An Interview with Deborah Hardoon of Oxfam

Demonstrating the value of scholarly research is increasingly critical to academic success. This interview with Oxfam’s Deborah Hardoon shows that there’s much we can learn from organizations outside of academia about maximizing research impact .

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Apr 23, 2015
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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