The Last 20 Years of Empirical Research on Government Utilization of Academic Social Science Research: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review

Nelson, John P.; Lindsay, Spencer; Bozeman, Barry

doi:10.1177/00953997231172923

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“…Furthermore, policy citation-the number of times that a scholarly article is cited by policy documents-is more direct and quantifiable than impact (Reale et al, 2018;Reed et al, 2021;Weiss, 1979). Nelson et al (2023) conducted an exhaustive review of the myriad factors influencing the utilization of academic scholarship in public policy. Through their comprehensive analysis of 60 articles, nearly 40 determinants were distilled that elucidate the use of academic social science research in public policy.…”

Section: Public Administration and Policy: Policy Impact As Heartbeatmentioning

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Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities?

Ma,

Cheng

2024

Public Administration Review

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We (1) present the landscape of the citations of Public Administration and Policy (PAP) scholarly articles in policy documents and (2) examine influencing factors along three dimensions: collaborative teams, cross‐disciplinary interactions, and disruptive paradigms. Using data from the 30 most‐cited PAP peer‐reviewed journals and 38,062 documents from 1107 policy institutions, we find that 10.1% of all PAP scholarship receives high citations from both academics and policy communities. Collaborative teams, cross‐disciplinary interactions, and disruptive paradigms can all increase the citations within policy communities, yet the relationships are not linear. Nonacademic authors can consistently attract more policy citations, whether publishing alone or collaborating with academics. An article should ideally cite no more than 13 disciplinary subjects. No significant trade‐off between scholarly and policy impact as scholarly citations and the academic reputation of authors often translate into policy citations. These findings offer novel and concrete insights into optimizing academic research for policy impact.

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Section: Public Administration and Policy: Policy Impact As Heartbeatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why do some academic articles receive more citations from policy communities?

Ma,

Cheng

2024

Public Administration Review

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Claiming Relevance for Social Science and the Humanities: Relevance Expressions Across Methodological Divides

Hellström,

Jacob

2024

Minerva

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This article addresses the issue of how Social Science and Humanities (SSH) researchers frame and argue relevance, where there are no explicit expectations to do so. It uses research project reports submitted to a Swedish research council, to distil and further analyze ‘relevance expressions’. These expressions illustrate some methodological differences along the lines of the long-standing distinction between nomothetic (generalization oriented) and idiographic (case /description oriented). We extracted relevance claims from a database of project abstracts and reports from the following fields: History, Linguistics, Political Science and Psychology. We interrogated these statements for possible differences with respect to how relevance is expressed. The study finds differences in the way that nomothetic and idiographic expressions imply, argue or derive support for relevance, and that these may be somewhat associated with fields, although with certain qualifications. Importantly, relevance expressions can be viewed as epistemic operations that occur in degrees of concretization, broadly or narrowly formulated, and in different levels of everyday and technical expressions. A key insight is that relevance in SSH appears to be closely associated with the way subjects relate to the empirical. This ultimately lends support for the application of the nomothetic/idiographic as a conceptual, albeit not exhaustive, analytical approach to understanding the relevance of SSH.

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