LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
DECEMBER 2012
VISUALISING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH HOW ACADEMICS ARE CITED FOR THEIR WORK IN ACADEMIA AND SOCIETY
INTRODUCING THE DATA
HOW MANY CITATIONS DOES EACH SUBJECT AREA ACHIEVE?
THE ACADEMICS
WE RANDOMLY SAMPLED 24 ACADEMICS FROM EACH SUBJECT
ECONOMICS
4790
3273
CITATIONS
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
ECONOMICS
LAW
POLITICAL SCIENCE
SOCIOLOGY
CITATIONS
THE PUBLICATIONS
WE LOOKED AT THEIR PUBLICATIONS BETWEEN 2004 AND 2009
POLITICAL SCIENCE
656
CITATIONS
LAW
THE CITATIONS
THEN WE TRACKED THE CITATIONS TO THEIR WORK
240
1384 CITATIONS
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
SOCIOLOGY
TOTAL NUMBER OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR* CITATIONS ACROSS ALL 5 SUBJECT AREAS *GOOGLE SCHOLAR: INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE ACADEMIC HAS PRODUCED AND HOW MANY CITATIONS THOSE OUTPUTS HAVE RECEIVED
HOW MANY CITATIONS DOES EACH OUTPUT TYPE ACHIEVE?
NUMBER OF CITATIONS ONE BOOK : 100 CITATIONS
2867
295
40
47
22
4046
176
21
510
37
148
84
0
3
4
500
130
12
8
6
588
713
10
37
4
8149
1398
83
605
73
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLE
ACADEMIC AS BOOK AUTHOR / EDITOR ACADEMIC AS CHAPTER AUTHOR
BOOK
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION OR PAPER
DISCUSSION OR COMMENTARY ARTICLE OR WORKING PAPER
RESEARCH REPORT
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
ECONOMICS
LAW
POLITICAL SCIENCE
SOCIOLOGY
TOTAL
TOTAL NUMBER OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR* CITATIONS FOR EACH OUTPUT TYPE, ACROSS ALL 5 SUBJECT AREAS *GOOGLE SCHOLAR: INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE ACADEMIC HAS PRODUCED AND HOW MANY CITATIONS THOSE OUTPUTS HAVE RECEIVED
FOR COMMISSIONING BODY OR INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC
HOW FAR OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA, DOES EACH SUBJECT HAVE IMPACT?
CITED BY
EXTERNAL
NAL ORGANISATIO INTERNATIO N
NUMBER OF CITATIONS
PRIVATE SECTOR
351
ONAL GOVERNMEN INTERNATI T GOVERNMENT UK LOCAL
0
MEDIA AND PRESS TRAL GOVERNMENT UK CEN
HIGHEST NUMBER OF CITATIONS * HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 163 - PUBLISHER
SOCIOL OGY
* LAW 115 - PUBLISHER
OR RESEARCH IN STIT TANK K UTE N THI PUBLISHER
APHY EOGR N G
* ECONOMICS 351 - ACADEMIC WEBSITE
MA HU
OUP WEB PAGE OR B L / GR SONA LOG R E P TOR OR CIVIL SOC IETY D SEC R I H T
LIBRARY
’L UNIVERSITY INT
* POLITICAL SCIENCE 106 - INT’L UNIVERSITY
UK
*
UNIVERSIT Y ACADEMIC SITE
*
ACADEMIA
*
* SOCIOLOGY 269 - PUBLISHER
*
*
I SC
EC O
AL
NO
MI CS
C TI LI PO EN
CE
TOTAL NUMBER OF FULL GOOGLE SEARCH* REFERENCES FOR EACH SECTOR, ACROSS ALL 5 SUBJECT AREAS *FULL GOOGLE SEARCH: INFORMATION ON REFERENCES TO THE ACADEMIC FROM THE WORLD OUTSIDE ACADEMIA
L AW
WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE CITATIONS COMING FROM?
SUBJECT AREAS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ECONOMICS LAW POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY
EUROPE
H AMERIC T OR
ASIA
988
A
N
UK
1620
DLE EAST D MI
1029
129
6
N AMERIC I AT
A
L
AFRICA
52
TOTAL NUMBER OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR INWARD* CITATIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, ACROSS ALL 5 SUBJECT AREAS *GOOGLE SCHOLAR INWARD: INFORMATION ABOUT REFERENCES/MENTIONS TO THE ACADEMIC FROM OTHER ACADEMICS
18
OCEANIA 95
HOW DOES THE NUMBER OF AUTHORS AFFECT THE NUMBER OF CITATIONS?
PROFILE: ACADEMICS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF OUTPUTS 253
450
CITATIONS
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY PROFESSOR
NUMBER OF OUTPUTS: 35
1549 CITATIONS
CO-AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
SINGLE AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
28
247
4
7
CO-AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
SINGLE AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
34
357
4
46
CO-AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
SINGLE AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
11
34
21
38
CO-AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
SINGLE AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
5
10
32
40
CO-AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
SINGLE AUTHORED:
CITATIONS:
14
263
12
271
ECONOMICS PROFESSOR
NUMBER OF OUTPUTS: 41
71
CITATIONS
0
426
345
205
91
OUTPUTS WITH 2 AUTHORS
OUTPUTS WITH 3 AUTHORS
OUTPUTS WITH 4 AUTHORS
OUTPUTS WITH 5+ AUTHORS
RECEIVED
RECEIVED
RECEIVED
RECEIVED
RECEIVED
5.3
CITATIONS PER OUTPUT
12
CITATIONS PER OUTPUT
10.5
CITATIONS PER OUTPUT
10.5
CITATIONS PER OUTPUT
PROFESSOR
97
OUTPUTS WITH 1 AUTHOR
8.7
CITATIONS PER OUTPUT
LAW
NUMBER OF OUTPUTS: 28
34
CITATIONS
POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR
NUMBER OF OUTPUTS: 27
516
CITATIONS
SOCIOLOGY PROFESSOR
NUMBER OF OUTPUTS: 26
TOTAL NUMBER OF AUTHORS FOR EACH OUPUT, COMPARED WITH TOTAL NUMBER OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR* CITATIONS *GOOGLE SCHOLAR: INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE ACADEMIC HAS PRODUCED AND HOW MANY CITATIONS THOSE OUTPUTS HAVE RECEIVED
PROFILES OF THOSE ACADEMICS WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF OUTPUTS, ACROSS ALL 5 SUBJECT AREAS
ABOUT
THE PAPER THIS DATA NEWSPAPER WAS PRODUCED BY AMY RICKETTS, A GRAPHIC AND SERVICE DESIGNER, IN COLLABORATION WITH ALISON PRENDIVILLE FROM THE LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS. OUT OF THE THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT DATA SETS FROM LSE’S RESEARCH (IMPACT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH: MAXIMIZING THE IMPACT OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH), SELECTIVE DATA WAS EXTRACTED AND VISUALISED TO PROVIDE A DIGESTIBLE NARRATIVE OF SOME OF THE KEY FINDINGS. THE DATA PRESENTED IS A SNAPSHOT OF A POINT IN TIME OF WHAT IS AN ONGOING PROCESS OF CALCULATIONS AND VISUALISATION. WITH RESPECT TO THE VISUAL REPRESENTATION IN THIS NEWSPAPER, THE DATA PRESENTED HAS ALREADY BEEN RECRUNCHED AND RECALCULATED. WE HOPE YOU ENJOY ‘VISUALISING THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH’ AS AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS INCREDIBLY RICH AND DETAILED RESEARCH PROJECT.
THE PROJECT THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES PROJECT AIMS TO DEMONSTRATE HOW ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES ACHIEVES PUBLIC POLICY IMPACTS, CONTRIBUTES TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND INFORMS PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF POLICY ISSUES AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGES. THE TEAM ARE DEVELOPING QUANTITATIVE METRICS FOR MEASURING IMPACT AND HAVE PERFORMED COMPARATIVE ANALYSES BASED ON A PILOT STUDY OF 120 ACADEMICS PULLED FROM A VARIETY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES.
CREDITS DESIGN AMY RICKETTS ALISON PRENDIVILLE PROJECT TEAM PROFESSOR PATRICK DUNLEAVY DR SIMON BASTOW JANE TINKLER DR JOAN WILSON DANIELLE MORAN ELLEN HARRIES SIERRA WILLIAMS THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES PROJECT IS FUNDED BY HEFCE
LINKS MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE PROJECT CAN BE FOUND ON THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES BLOG AT: WWW.BLOGS.LSE.AC.UK/IMPACTOFSOCIALSCIENCES WWW.AMYRICKETTS.CO.UK