Visualisations from Impact of Social Sciences project

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