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!
- Book Review: Taking Control of Writing Your Thesis: A Guide to Get You to the End by Kay Guccione and Jerry Wellington
- Introducing the Observatory of International Research: A simple research discovery tool for everyone
- A PhD by publication is a great way to build your academic profile, but be mindful of its challenges
- Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Invisible impact and insecure academics: structural barriers to engagement and why we should do it anyway
- Research Translation for Health Impact, The state of the art
- Taking Stock of the Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance
- Our Profile(d) Selves: How social media platforms use data to tell us who we should be
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- 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.
- What is the difference between an impact and an outcome? Impact is the longer term effect of an outcome.
- Never on a Sunday! Is there a best day for submitting an article for publication?
- Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (updated for 2017)
- Why students should not be taught general critical-thinking skills
- 10 Chrome extensions to help manage references, notes, citations and capture information.
- How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
- REF2021: Adding Insult to Injury?
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