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 · 23 September 2024 English

Peer review decisions are definitive, and depending on the style of peer review practiced at a journal, reviewers can usually make one of three recommendations: accept, reject, revise and resubmit. …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 20 September 2024 English

Drawing on discussions from a recent workshop hosted by the Department of Methodology at LSE, Thomas Robinson highlights three ways in which AI is reshaping research across the social sciences …


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

Reflecting on writing her own thesis by publication and her work in developing institutional thesis by publication policies Margaret K. Merga highlights how arbitrary article limits and rigid rules around …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 17 September 2024 English

The Research Excellence Framework is primarily a mechanism for assessing the quality of research and allocating research funding. However, as Andrea Padilla describes in the context of UK international development, …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 16 September 2024 English

Drawing on a bibliometric study, Hongyu Zhou, Lin Zhang and their co-authors explore how and why life sciences researchers cite the social sciences and how this relationship has changed in …


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

In Making Information Matter, Mareile Kaufmann proposes a methodology for studying information practices as a living process, developing her argument through four case studies. Employing a theoretical framework that includes …


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

Reflecting on the challenges facing gender activists and researchers in Hungary, Dorottya Rédai outlines how interactions between researchers and activists could be more productive and why taking a transnational perspective …


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

Quantitative research in the social and natural sciences is increasingly dependent on new datasets and forms of code. Making these resources open and accessible is a key aspect of open …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 10 September 2024 English

The literature on research policy often assumes a dynamic interplay between democratic nations, science and innovation. Caroline S. Wagner suggests that at least in the case of China, science depends …


LSE: London School of Economics and Political Science · 9 September 2024 English

When Garfield first launched his Science Citation Index in 1965, many criticised its unequal geographical coverage of the world’s scientific literature. Almost 60 years later, the problem has not gone …