Looking for something to read? Here’s a quick look at what other people are reading on the Impact Blog. This page shows a continually updated list of the past week’s 20 most popular blog posts by readership. We know readership statistics aren’t everything, but it’s a useful place to start!
- Make sure your book is discoverable! Advice for the reader-oriented author
- Managing secrets in higher education
- Will the REF disadvantage interdisciplinary research? The inadvertent effects of journal rankings
- A closer look at the Sci-Hub corpus: what is being downloaded and from where?
- Journal policies that encourage data sharing prove extremely effective
- Google Scholar Citations: a way for academics to compute citation metrics and track them over time
- Book Review: Psychology in the Bathroom by Nick Haslam
- Book Review: Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
- Gender over Race? Equity and inclusion in higher education
- The research-teaching nexus is taken for granted, but not well-understood or developed in practice.
- Unhelpful, caustic and slow: the academic community should rethink the way publications are reviewed
- A service by scientists for scientists: Elsevier’s Editors’ Choice App aims to select best research articles
- “Tenure can withstand Twitter”: We need policies that promote science communication and protect those who engage.
- The Necropolitics of COVID-19: Will the COVID-19 pandemic reshape national healthcare systems?
- Where will we find the next generation of public intellectuals now that intelligence is seen as a weakness?
- The importance of being REF-able: academic writing under pressure from a culture of counting
- We must make the digital world central to sociological research
- If impact is essential to REF, how can we find a common definition across research fields?
- We don’t all have to agree on what public engagement means in order to get involved
- The making of the Great British Class Survey and its essential capacity to communicate through digital modes
