Patrick Dunleavy, Jane Tinkler

Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Bloomsbury Academic / Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 541g
• ISBN-13: 9780230377608
• ISBN-10: 0230377602
• Artikelnr.: 59273832

Autorenporträt

Patrick Dunleavy is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and worked in the Department of Government at LSE from 1979 to 2020. He is also Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Canberra, where he was Centenary Professor (2015-21). A Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences, he also served as Founding Editor in Chief at LSE Press from 2020 to 2024. He was Director of the UK Democratic Audit from 2013-20. His recent books include The UK's Changing Democracy: the 2018 Democratic Audit (open access from LSE Press, 2018, co-edited); and Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research (Palgrave, 2021, now Bloomsbury Press, co-authored with Jane Tinkler).

Inhaltsangabe

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.