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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics:
History and the Impact Agenda
M. H. Beals
Loughborough University
@mhbeals
(ORCID: 0000-0002-2907-3313)
Slides Released Under The CC-BY 4.0 Licence
SLIDES ABOUT ME
Prefatory Note
“Write a Nice
Controversial Article.
That’ll Give Your
Career a Jump Start”
(good advice, but…)
Impact:
Most Historian Define Impact As:
• A Museum Partnership
• News and News Commentary Opportunities
• Documentary and Entertainment Television
• Online Exhibits and Outreach
• Schools and Heritage Sector
• Policy Consultancy
• Popular Books
“A New and Exciting
Way of Measuring
Research Impact
beyond Raw Citation
Counts”
Altmetrics:
“So…You Went on
Twitter then?”
Altmetrics:
History Altmetrics
• Are Far (far) Lower than STEM Articles
• Survey a Limited Range of Platforms
• Do not Register Traditional Impact Connections
• Under-represent the role of the (hard-copy) monograph
• Over-represent Author and Editor Involvement
Gaming the System?
Good Impact is Purposeful
• Purposeful Citation
• Directed Word-of-Mouth
• Curation and Dissemination
Help us Help you Help us Share our Research
References, Mentions and Allusions
• Intra-Academic Allusions
• Newspaper, Magazine and Television Appearances
• Heritage and Public History Impact
• Wikipedia Citations
Qualitative Differentiation and Critical Theory
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics:
History and the Impact Agenda
M. H. Beals
Loughborough University
@mhbeals
(ORCID: 0000-0002-2907-3313)
Slides Released Under The CC-BY 4.0 Licence
SLIDES ABOUT ME

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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: History and the Impact Agenda

  • 1. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: History and the Impact Agenda M. H. Beals Loughborough University @mhbeals (ORCID: 0000-0002-2907-3313) Slides Released Under The CC-BY 4.0 Licence SLIDES ABOUT ME
  • 3. “Write a Nice Controversial Article. That’ll Give Your Career a Jump Start” (good advice, but…) Impact:
  • 4. Most Historian Define Impact As: • A Museum Partnership • News and News Commentary Opportunities • Documentary and Entertainment Television • Online Exhibits and Outreach • Schools and Heritage Sector • Policy Consultancy • Popular Books
  • 5. “A New and Exciting Way of Measuring Research Impact beyond Raw Citation Counts” Altmetrics:
  • 6. “So…You Went on Twitter then?” Altmetrics:
  • 7. History Altmetrics • Are Far (far) Lower than STEM Articles • Survey a Limited Range of Platforms • Do not Register Traditional Impact Connections • Under-represent the role of the (hard-copy) monograph • Over-represent Author and Editor Involvement
  • 9. Good Impact is Purposeful • Purposeful Citation • Directed Word-of-Mouth • Curation and Dissemination Help us Help you Help us Share our Research
  • 10. References, Mentions and Allusions • Intra-Academic Allusions • Newspaper, Magazine and Television Appearances • Heritage and Public History Impact • Wikipedia Citations Qualitative Differentiation and Critical Theory
  • 11. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: History and the Impact Agenda M. H. Beals Loughborough University @mhbeals (ORCID: 0000-0002-2907-3313) Slides Released Under The CC-BY 4.0 Licence SLIDES ABOUT ME