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!
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- For the sake of all involved, we should stop the REF clock
- Carrying out qualitative research under lockdown – Practical and ethical considerations
- To communicate scientific research, we need to confront motivated ignorance
- Four guiding principles for choosing frameworks and indicators to assess research impact
- What is the role of the social sciences in the response to COVID-19? 4 priorities for shaping the post-pandemic world
- The ResearchGate Score: a good example of a bad metric
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- To shape policy with evidence, we should celebrate both good practice and good theory
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- 10 Chrome extensions to help manage references, notes, citations and capture information.
- Despite concerns, COVID-19 shows how social media has become an essential tool in the democratisation of knowledge
- Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (2019)
- 8 common problems with literature reviews and how to fix them
- In 2021 let’s do institutional academic social media better.
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: Which is best for me?
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Weibo – How is China’s second largest social media platform being used for social research?
- Retractions: the good, the bad, and the ugly. What researchers stand to gain from taking more care to understand errors in the scientific record
