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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
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Prefatory Note

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“Write a Nice
Controversial Article.
That’ll Give Your
Career a Jump Start”
(good advice, but…)
Impact:

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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

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“A New and Exciting
Way of Measuring
Research Impact
beyond Raw Citation
Counts”
Altmetrics:

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“So…You Went on
Twitter then?”
Altmetrics:

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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

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Gaming the System?

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Good Impact is Purposeful
• Purposeful Citation
• Directed Word-of-Mouth
• Curation and Dissemination
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References, Mentions and Allusions
• Intra-Academic Allusions
• Newspaper, Magazine and Television Appearances
• Heritage and Public History Impact
• Wikipedia Citations
Qualitative Differentiation and Critical Theory

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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