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!
- What is the role of the social sciences in the response to COVID-19? 4 priorities for shaping the post-pandemic world
- 8 common problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
- 9 Recommended Lockdown Reads from the LSE Community
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- On teaching anticolonial archives
- Nine steps to achieve research integrity and build trust
- Carrying out qualitative research under lockdown – Practical and ethical considerations
- Don’t leave us this way: A love letter to Britain from a member of the European research community
- A librarian perspective on Sci-Hub: the true solution to the scholarly communication crisis is in the hands of the academic community, not librarians
- Open Access is here to stay. But who will pay?
- What we know about the academic journal landscape reflects global inequalities
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- Moving beyond the talk: Universities must become anti-racist
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19
- Despite concerns, COVID-19 shows how social media has become an essential tool in the democratisation of knowledge
- 10 Chrome extensions to help manage references, notes, citations and capture information.
- The ResearchGate Score: a good example of a bad metric
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- The Impact Factor and Its Discontents: Reading list on controversies and shortcomings of the Journal Impact Factor.
