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Interesting post on impact of research
This post on measuring impact (within and beyond academia) has some interesting elements. Impact zones and the role of publishers: changing the way academic research makes wider impact | Impact of Social Sciences. I find the middle section, with the … Continue reading
Peer reviewed journal articles and monographs in the academic evaluation process
This is the 2nd post in a series on how your scholarship is evaluated in various academic evaluation processes. I was inspired by the comments on a blog post on Melville and the knowledge that some of my readers do … Continue reading
How scholarship is evaluated
The quality and impact of your research is usually evaluated based on where you publish. The advent of new outlets for your scholarly work has raised some interesting issues about how this is done. A recent blog exchange about Melville … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Culture, Publishing
Tagged blogging, evaluating academics, grants, hiring, impact, indicators, promotion, Publishing, quality, reliability, scholarship, tenure, validity
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Who do you want to reach? An example
As I’ve argued in previous posts, publishing is all about reaching the people who can benefit from your ideas. For most academics, some of the people you want to reach are other academics. And the primary way you are going … Continue reading
Posted in Knowledge Mobilization, Publishing
Tagged impact, journals, peer review, writing
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What is an impact factor, anyway?
In some social science disciplines, talk of impact factors will be routine. In others, they will be mentioned sometimes but some of your colleagues (even highly respected researchers) won’t know anything about them. In most humanities disciplines, they are unheard … Continue reading
