This page shows a continually updated list of the past month’s twenty most popular blog posts by readership.
- The verdict: is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it? 4421 view(s) | posted on April 19, 2012
- Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities 2617 view(s) | posted on September 29, 2011
- The road to academic success is paved with stylish academic writing 1638 view(s) | posted on May 14, 2012
- More ‘hybrid’ academic and policy researchers are needed to increase effective communication between the political and academic spheres 1118 view(s) | posted on April 18, 2012
- Your favourite academic tweeters: lists available to browse by subject area 997 view(s) | posted on September 2, 2011
- Academic tweeting: finding the appropriate tweeting style for your project 784 view(s) | posted on October 4, 2011
- Preventing rigour mortis: our migration to social media does not spell the end of academic rigour 776 view(s) | posted on April 16, 2012
- How relevant is UK political science? A riposte to Matthew Flinders and Peter Riddell 669 view(s) | posted on April 17, 2012
- The data confirms: If you want to stay in science and see your children grow up don’t have children before you have tenure 644 view(s) | posted on May 11, 2012
- A revolutionary new approach to making humanities and social sciences books free 508 view(s) | posted on May 4, 2012
- Social media is inherently a system of peer evaluation and is changing the way scholars disseminate their research, raising questions about the way we evaluate academic authority 499 view(s) | posted on June 27, 2011
- Five minutes with Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson: “Blogging is quite simply, one of the most important things that an academic should be doing right now”. 477 view(s) | posted on February 24, 2012
- Think tanks are neglecting cheap and easy social media, and failing to reach out to broader audiences for their work 475 view(s) | posted on April 13, 2012
- Paper books in a digital era: How conservative publishers and authors almost killed off books in university social science 458 view(s) | posted on May 2, 2012
- We should aim for open refereeing of academic articles in the information age 407 view(s) | posted on May 1, 2012
- How predictable is the REF? 404 view(s) | posted on April 24, 2012
- Ebooks herald the second coming of books in university social science 396 view(s) | posted on May 8, 2012
- Google Scholar Citations: a way for academics to compute citation metrics and track them over time 393 view(s) | posted on July 21, 2011
- Public engagement requires little more than embracing that of which most academics are afraid – looking like an idiot 391 view(s) | posted on April 30, 2012
- You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows: a response to Peter John on the relevance of political science 331 view(s) | posted on April 25, 2012
