Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-352-01099-2
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 409 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

This is an invaluable guide to better research communication within and beyond academia. With many years of research experience, the authors provide scholars and scientists with systematic advice on how to ensure their research reaches its potential, and grows the recognition, influence, practical application and public understanding of science and scholarship. It begins by examining how citations work and evaluating the different measures of academic influence, from legacy bibliometric systems to altmetrics and digital metrics. Subsequent chapters show readers how to craft impactful journal articles, work effectively with co-authors, create a portfolio of publications and build a digital strategy that promotes knowledge exchange. Checklists help readers decide how and in what format to publish, enabling them to get their research in front of the right people. Throughout, the authors illustrate impact with data drawn from a wide range of disciplines.

Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research is ideal for PhD students and early career researchers taking their first steps into academic research, experienced researchers mentoring the next generation of scholars and scientists and established academics looking to systematically review and upgrade their existing impact practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dunleavy, Patrick

Tinkler, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Universitäten, Wissenschaftliche Akademien, Gelehrtengesellschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaftspolitik, Wissenschaftsförderung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: ACADEMIC IMPACTS.- Chapter 1: How citations work.- 1.1 The role citations play.- 1.2 Citation rates across disciplines.- 1.3 Time lags and citation profiles.- 1.4 What shapes researchers' overall citation profiles across their careers?.- 1.5 Handling self-citation.- Chapter 2: Tracking and understanding your citations.- 2.1 The 'legacy' citation tracking systems.- 2.2 Google Scholar's tracking systems.- 2.3 Web-based citation plus full text.- 2.4 Altmetrics.- 2.5 Digital metrics and academic citing behaviours.- Chapter 3: Planning journal articles.- 3.1 Getting papers from research projects.- 3.2 Working with co-authors and research teams.- 3.3 Deciding where to submit an article.- 3.4 Understanding the peer review process.- 3.5 Maintaining a flow of research and papers.- Chapter 4: Crafting better journal articles.- 4.1 Choosing an article structure suitable for each discipline.- 4.2 Writing better - avoiding 'academese'.- 4.3 Helping other researchers to cite you.- 4.4 Writing informative titles and abstracts for journal articles.- Chapter 5: Producing books and chapters.- 5.1 Books as academic outputs and their citation rates.- 5.2 Getting your book known.- 5.3 Edited books.- 5.4 Chapters in books.- PART 2: ACADEMIC AND EXTERNAL IMPACTS.- Chapter 6: Applied work, 'grey' literature and choosing across projects.- 6.1 Applied work.- 6.2 'Grey' literature and other publications.- 6.3 A choice canvass for research and publications options.- Chapter 7: Digital era scholarship - bigger, better, shorter, faster, free.- 7.1 Bigger data.- 7.2 Bigger search.- 7.3 Better communicated.- 7.4 Shorter publication forms.- 7.5 Faster research.- 7.6 Free access and open access to knowledge.- Chapter 8: Improving impacts at department and university level.- 8.1 Committing to knowledge exchange.- 8.2 Choosing a blogging/digital strategy.- 8.3 Integrating department and university impact efforts.- 8.4 University leadership and information flows.- PART 3: EXTERNAL IMPACTS.- Chapter 9: Impacts, intermediaries and academic purpose.- 9.1 What an external impact is (and is not).- 9.2 Academia and modern professions.- 9.3 The impacts interface.- Chapter 10: Working with other organizations. 10.1 Which academics can link to outside bodies. 10.2 The variety of university links to businesses and other organizations.- 10.3 How working with outside organizations can benefit research.- 10.4 The costs and possible risks of working externally.- Chapter 11: Public engagement and impacts.- 11.1 Intuitive explanations, research narrative and 'maths dread'.- 11.2 Who can do public engagement?.- 11.3 The benefits of getting involved.- 11.4 Mitigating costs and potential risks.- Afterword: How the impacts agenda boosts academic progress and democratizes knowledge.- References.

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In addition to his disciplinary work, he is well known for his successful guide, Authoring a PhD (Red Globe Press, 2003) and for the LSE Writing for Research blog. His Twitter feed @Write4Research has 68,000 followers from many countries and disciplines. His widely cited 2014 research study of The Impact of the Social Sciences (co-authored with Simon Bastow and Jane Tinkler) provided part of the foundation for this book.

Jane Tinkler is Senior Prize Manager at the Nine Dots Prize for innovation in the social sciences. She is also studying for a PhD in public policy at Stirling University. She previously managed LSE Public Policy Group for many years and co-authored The Impact of the Social Sciences (2014). She has also been a researcher in the UK’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, and before London School of Economics worked at UCL and Birkbeck College, London.