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High impact papers?

High impact papers?. Keith Shine January 2012. How might we define high impact?. Causing textbooks to be rewritten …? Widespread peer recognition? citations prizes Publication in Nature or Science?  Media attention? 

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High impact papers?

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  1. High impact papers? Keith Shine January 2012

  2. How might we define high impact? • Causing textbooks to be rewritten …? • Widespread peer recognition? • citations • prizes • Publication in Nature or Science? • Media attention?  • I assume we wish our high impact papers to also be excellent!

  3. The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise – where did other departments, other top departments and we publish (our 4 outputs) ? Includes all “environmental and earth system science” depts

  4. What makes a high impact paper? • Excellent innovative science tackling big issues, solving pervasive problems or presenting a widely-applicable, easily-adopted technique or dataset • A bit of serendipity • Provocative/challenging/controversial ... • Good timing • Critical reviews of the literature …

  5. How can we improve the impact? • Abstracts/introductions/conclusions – emphasizing the advances we make, rather than what we have not done! • Where we publish – aim for a range of journals? • When we publish – what is the right “quantum” of knowledge? What are the “dangers” of delay? • Getting the paper length right! • How we advertise our work • pro-active and responsive distribution • up-to-date web sites • conference/seminars (timing important)

  6. Ways forward? • Should we introduce any element of internal peer review (especially for abstract/intro/conclusions)? • Should we think of writing more critical reviews/assessments/integrative studies/intercomparisons (including updates to previous ones)? • Should we target Nature and Science more? And how “valuable” are Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change?

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