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!
- A degree of studying – Students who treat education as a commodity perform worse than their intrinsically motivated peers
- How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- CRediT Check – Should we welcome tools to differentiate the contributions made to academic papers?
- Beyond Randomised Controlled Trials – expanding the horizon for experimental research techniques in the social sciences
- What is the difference between an impact and an outcome? Impact is the longer term effect of an outcome.
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- The ResearchGate Score: a good example of a bad metric
- Not yet the default setting – in 2020 open research remains a work in progress.
- Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub: How does a new generation of researchers perceive Sci-Hub?
- Book Review: Competitive Accountability in Academic Life: The Struggle for Social Impact and Public Legitimacy by Richard Watermeyer
- Publication is not enough, to generate impact you need to campaign
- For the humanities to play a stronger role in public policy making, they must move from individual to institutional engagement
- To improve the global evidence ecosystem we need to listen to the Global South.
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- Negative Impact – Is it possible to manage potentially harmful research findings?
- Four principles for practising and evaluating co-production – a view from sustainability research.
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
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