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 · 21 November 2024 English

Having a positive impact beyond academia can often be seen as a requirement, rather than as a personal orientation to research and its potential to create social change. John E. …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 19 November 2024 English

Drawing on their recent work to identify forms of research data misuse Irene V. Pasquetto, Zoë Cullen, Andrea Thomer and Morgan Wofford outline seven kinds of research data misuse and …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 18 November 2024 English

As prominent individual and institutional accounts eschew Twitter/X for new social media platforms, Bluesky is having a moment. Drawing on the experience of colleagues on the platform, Ned Potter, offers …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 14 November 2024 English

Autoethnographic accounts can be powerful indictments of unjust social and organisational structures in higher education. However, Margaret Merga suggests, particularly in the context of Australian non-disparagement and defamation law, this …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 13 November 2024 English

Bringing together a range of studies into various aspects of how preprints interact with the wider information ecosystem, Natascha Chtena, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Alice Fleerackers argue that the speed, …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 12 November 2024 English

Reporting on a nationwide survey among researchers in Denmark, Serge P.J.M. Horbach, Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt, Rachel Fishberg, Mads P. Sørensen and colleagues find three clusters of attitudes towards GenAI use …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 11 November 2024 English

The way climate change and the need for concerted action is communicated often takes place with an expert scientific and technological frame of reference. Kristian Noll argues that for climate …


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 …