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!
- The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore
- “Why are you not doing research in your home country?” – The complexities of being from and doing research in the Global South
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- Preprints, conspiracy theories and the need for platform governance
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- To improve social science publications let’s lose the discussion section
- X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads… TikTok? How to choose in a fractured academic social media landscape
- The persistence of eugenics in mainstream journals highlights major gaps in research integrity
- Common policy problems and what researchers can do about them
- When more is less – what makes environmental data useful?
- LawGPT? How AI is Reshaping the Legal Profession
- Despite concerns, COVID-19 shows how social media has become an essential tool in the democratisation of knowledge
- 8 common problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- Book Review: How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions – review
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- What or where is the ‘Global South’? A social science perspective
- The case against Revise and Resubmit
