Maximizing the Impacts of Academic Research
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Maximizing the Impacts
of Academic Research
How to grow the recognition, influence, practical
application and public understanding of science
and scholarship
Patrick Dunleavy and Jane Tinkler
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Contents
List of Figures
Glossary and Abbreviations
AI | artificial intelligence |
altmetrics | alternative metrics to citations, such as downloads of outputs, comments, endorsements, retweets, circulation via social media etc. |
APC | author publishing charge, a one-off fee paid by journal authors so that their article is open access on publication |
bibliometric database | a large, computerized catalogue of research articles, books and other outputs |
bibliometrics | the science of studying citations and the use of published outputs |
big data | Dataset that are very large volume, real time, all-N and have multiple other features; see . |
CV | curriculum vitae, a career summary with education, employment, honours and publications |
DOI | digital object identifier, a unique number for any published output on the Web |
ERA | Excellence in Research for Australia a government audit of Australian universities research quality carried out by the Australian Research Council |
eyeballing | a brief scanning of a text that falls short of properly reading and understanding it, as with alleged peer review in the REF or ERA; also often carried out by reviewers with only general discipline knowledge, not command of a specific research topic |
FB | Facebook |
FOI | freedom of information provisions, requiring the publication of documentation from public sector agencies |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product the national income of a country (leaving out trade) |
gold OA | an open-access output that can be read immediately and for free by any reader who accesses a journal article, book etc. |
green OA | an output that is only available in a journal or in printed form to journal subscribers or book purchasers, but which is available open access on the university repository of the author(s) |
GS | Google Scholar world-leading academic search engine |
GS Citations | Google Scholar Citations gives a profile for academic authors, which they can monitor and edit |
GSM | Google Scholar Metrics gives h5 scores for journals and rankings by disciplines |
h score | a measure showing that x outputs of an author or a journal have been cited x times. E.g. an h score of 10 means an author has ten publications cited ten times or more. |
h5 median | the median cites of all publications included in a journals h5 score on GS |
h5 score | a measure showing that x outputs of an author or a journal have been cited x times in the last five years. Used by GS Citations and GS Metrics |
HEFC | Higher Education Funding Council for England (merged into UKRI in 2018) |
hype | oversold, public relations forms of communication |
ICS | impact case study, as developed in the REF and ERA audit exercises |
IPR | intellectual property rights (e.g. patents, trademarks, copyright) |
Ivy League | a set of eight long-established and relatively prestigious universities in the eastern US: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College |
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