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The Altmetric Score: How to Effectively Track Media Attention to Your Research

Co-authored by Indrani Das The field of research has made considerable headway in the past few years, with many stories of science generating buzz globally. The increasing public attention to the latest scientific developments has a lot to do with the media attention given to them. For instance, when the world first glimpsed the silhouette of […]

Exploring the Relationship Between Research and Media Attention

What Media Attention Can (and Cannot) Do for Your Research Today, the way we disseminate scientific research is very different from how it was a couple of decades ago. With various web-based platforms such as news outlets and social media paying more attention to scientific findings, its consumption by the lay audience has seen a […]

REF 2021 Deadline Reactions

After a prolonged period of anticipation among researchers, the submission deadline for 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) has been announced as 31 March 2021. This decision comes after months of uncertainty among researchers, after the original deadline of 27 November, 2020, was indefinitely postponed on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. This announcement is not completely unexpected: this deadline was […]