How better to build on the current process of the evaluation of research (and the recent introduction in the UK of impact assessment) than by gathering, publishing and analysing data on scholarly influence among the audience beyond the scholarly sphere?
It depends upon a lack of political authority and initiative, and on the weakness of scholarly influence (Poli 2011).
"We can use the networks to evaluate scholarly influence and (most importantly) use them to better navigate the ever-expanding literature," he explains.
After Roman Jakobson's famous 1935 essay, which characterized the early Pasternak as a "virtuoso of metonymy," in contrast to the metaphoric Mayakovsky, no other approach has been able to generate comparable scholarly influence.
Impact is linked with significance but further explicates how the scholarly work influences others or alters thinking, practice, education, leadership, policy or the health of people.
Indeed, while the influence of external investments on domestic policy-making, financing, and service delivery has received scholarly attention, the influence of these investments on health governance has been less explored.
And though either parent could exert the crucial influence, scholarly studies show that it is more often the mother who sets the pace of religious involvement in the family.
The purpose is to encourage interchange between the scientific and non-scientific communities at CISAC and within Stanford, to further CISAC's goals of educating students and the public, conducting good scholarly research and influencing policy.
When evolutionary ideas began to influence scholarly views of nature in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries, the new ideas blended perfectly with that older paradigm: this chain of being, this scala naturae, was temporal!
Illuminating assumptions are important for scholarly understandings of what influences communication and for practitioner reflexive awareness in designing communication plans.
Drawing insights from the philosophical tradition of phenomenology, especially as exemplified by Edmund Husserl (1859 1938), it seeks to uncover religion's essence through investigations that are free from the distorting influences of scholarly or traditional values and prejudices.
