LSE Impact Blog

LSE Impact Blog

London School of Economics and Political Science

The LSE Impact Blog is a hub for researchers, administrative staff, librarians, students, think tanks, government, and anyone else interested in maximising the impact of academic work in the social sciences and other disciplines. We hope to encourage debate, share best practice and keep the impact community up to date with news, events and the latest research.


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LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 8 November 2024 English

Drawing on a study of priorities in health research, Moumita Koley, Ismael Rafols and Alfredo Yegros argue a metascience approach can refocus Indian research towards areas that are most needed …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 4 November 2024 English

There is a long history of attempts to unify and rationalise academic research. Taking the example of VINITI, the Soviet Union’s centralised approach to organising global research, Björn Hammarfelt and …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 31 October 2024 English

The emergence of an open access publishing system based on article publication charges has introduced substantial global inequities. Stephanie Kitchen, David Mills and Mame-Penda Ba argue that for African research …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 30 October 2024 English

The interactional skill of large language models enables them to carry out qualitative research interviews at speed and scale. Demonstrating the ability of these new techniques in a range of …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 29 October 2024 English

Women are underrepresented in senior academic positions in economics. Ria Ivandić and Anne Sophie Lassen assess the impact of having children on men and women’s career trajectories and suggest how …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 28 October 2024 English

Based on an analysis of over 32 million abstracts published over the last fifty years, Adrian Barnett and Nicole White find a marked rise in common spelling errors. Evidence they …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 25 October 2024 English

International development agencies apply theories and methodologies from a largely Western canon. Reflecting on how feminism became a contentious term for groups involved in a participatory action research project in …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 23 October 2024 English

Intelligent machines and AI interfaces are increasingly embedded in a range of social contexts. In turn these machines are themselves deeply shaped by the social and cultural milieu of their …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 22 October 2024 English

For many Google Scholar has become a critical piece of research infrastructure. Yet, revelations in the manipulability of its metrics and its inclusion of AI generated papers have led some …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 21 October 2024 English

To what extent does academic success follow success? Drawing on a dataset of mentor-mentee relations and their citations, Ye Sun, Fabio Caccioli, Xiancheng Li and Giacomo Livan suggest the dynamics …