We are committed to
supporting meaningful,
real world impact.
Real Impact is far more than citations. It’s about making a difference. It’s communities joining together to find ways to make changes. Impact is the provable effects of research in the real world.
We appreciate it’s not always easy for academics and researchers to see the impact of their work. That’s why we’ve launched ‘Real Impact’ to aid the cause and call on research communities to come together and break down barriers.
So, join our conversations, have your say in our blogs, read our toolkits, and download our resources to help bring your research to life. Together we can make a difference.
Real Impact Manifesto
We are committed to supporting meaningful, real world impact.
Emerald will now lead the publishing charge towards meaningful impact.
For over 50 years, research impact has sat at the heart of Emerald’s business. Emerald’s core ethos is making a difference through research, and we are proud of our heritage supporting the communication of research for policy and practice.
With a sector increasingly full of pressure and expectation, we recognise the challenges faced by colleagues in connecting research to impact. We also recognise that traditional markers of influence, such as citations, are not sufficient to tell the story of impact. Emerald feels strongly that we have a key role and responsibility in not only supporting the impact agenda, but also in challenging outdated approaches to measuring effects.
Emerald will now lead the publishing charge towards meaningful impact. We will continue to work with our global author network to publish research which makes a difference and invest further in the research community to support real world change.
Emerald commits to:
- Support the community of practice to overcome barriers to impact, working in partnership with key agencies to strengthen connections between research and society.
- Challenge simplistic and outdated approaches to impact, shifting beyond metrics and celebrating impact of all shapes and sizes.
- Drive impact literacy in the research sector – including within Emerald itself – championing knowledge and skills development and developing new tools and innovative approaches.
Join us in making a difference.
Vicky Williams
CEO, Emerald Publishing
On behalf of the Directors
Highlights
Impact Case Studies
- Read our collection of stories, outlining impact achieved in the real world
We are committed to supporting meaningful, real world impact.
Associate Professor Beth Choate and Assistant Professor Brittany Davis – from the Environmental Science & Sustainability department at Allegheny College – along with 20 second-year majors, have led a project to reduce bottled water usage on their campus. The Problem Humankind’s continuous reliance on bottled water over the past 30 years has become a major …
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Stay In School campaign: Operationalising the extra medical measures to address the issue of fistula in Northern Nigeria
Dr. Bankole AllibayFistula and Extra-Medical Solution The orthodox response to gender-based sicknesses is scientific medical treatment. Although not incorrect, field experiences show that these treatments are often times reactive, and do not prevent a repeat incidence. Social performance practice recommends proactive social risk diagnosis and proactive risk management procedures, rather than reactive impact management. Such is the …
Read ArticleThe Real Impact Awards celebrate the commitment to impact by the research community across the globe, honour the changemakers, and bring together key stakeholders in the impact debate Emerald Publishing has announced the winners of its annual Real Impact Awards which celebrate the commitment to impact by the research community across the globe. Now in …
Read ArticleRaising the bar on improving the public’s health at Healthy City Design International Congress 2019
Michael Chang - Health, Open ResearchThis year the theme of the annual Healthy City Design International Congress, ‘Designing for utopia or dystopia? People and planetary health at a crossroads’, reflects a tipping point in which people’s health and wellbeing are becoming a central consideration in healthy city design and place-making. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a healthy city as …
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‘Change Ready’ report
ReportOur intention with this report is to provide a sense of how ‘change ready’ we are as a research ecosystem to move beyond metrics and “to the provable effects of research in the real world” (the definition of impact we use at Emerald, closely aligned with the working definitions of those such as the UK …
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