This article explores the current literature on 'research impact'in the social sciences and
humanities (SSH). By providing a comprehensive review of available literature, drawing on …

Despite tourism researchers continually collecting new data on visitors, academic
understanding of the utilisation of this knowledge remains fragmented. Using a sample of …

The internet has profoundly changed how we produce, use and collect research and
information for public policy and practice, with grey literature playing an increasingly …

In the field of education much has been made of the need for academics to engage more
closely with policy-makers and practitioners in the process of knowledge production and …

This paper aims to observe the transformation of Chinese universities into think tanks and
the adoption of new forms of promoting knowledge transfer in the social sciences …

We test a model pertaining to practitioners' use of public affairs research. The data are from
a survey of journal article authors, focusing on authors' reports of use of their research by …

Funding bodies seek to promote scientific research that has a social or economic impact
beyond academia, including in sport management. Knowledge translation in sport …

Evidence-based policy has become rhetoric for many western governments across a broad
range of health and social policy areas. However, the transfer and uptake of academic …

Social science disciplines generate diverse forms of research utilization, given the various
contexts in which disciplinary knowledge is produced and translated for the fields of policy …

Using a unique dataset built around published papers in top quality public policy, public
administration and program evaluation journals, we find that 29.7% of respondent authors …