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!
- Academic travel culture is not only bad for the planet, it is also bad for the diversity and equity of research.
- Don’t let your academic career determine your every move – Should early career researchers be expected to relocate regularly in order to land a permanent job?
- “Greetings from Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing” – Should we call time on international academic travel?
- “If you use social media then you are not working” – How do social scientists perceive altmetrics and online forms of scholarly communication?
- Beware the well-intentioned advice of unusually successful academics
- Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
- How diverse is your reading list? (Probably not very…)
- 6 Insights into being a productive and happy academic author
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Citations are more than merely assigning credit – their inclusion (or not) conditions how colleagues regard and evaluate your work
- What is the difference between an impact and an outcome? Impact is the longer term effect of an outcome.
- Book Review: Decolonization and Feminisms in Global Teaching and Learning edited by Sara de Jong, Rosalba Icaza and Olivia U. Rutazibwa
- The ideal PhD researcher has no baggage
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- Third mission accomplished? Why are universities bad at engaging with local and regional government and what we can do about it.
- Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (updated for 2017)
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- Writing a peer review is a structured process that can be learned and improved – 12 steps to follow
- Making Waves – Assessing the potential impacts of Plan S on the scholarly communications ecosystem
Image credit: ITV digital channels viewing share (Wikimedia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)
