For the third year, SAGE Publishing has selected three journal articles for its 10-Year Impact Awards. The awards acknowledge the authors of papers published in SAGE Journals 10 years prior that have been cited the most compared to all studies published that same year.

 Honoring research published in 2011, this year’s winning articles are:

• “Amazon's Mechanical Turk: A New Source of Inexpensive, Yet High-Quality, Data?” by Michael Buhrmester, Tracy Kwang, and Samuel D. Gosling, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science. This paper has more than 7,500 citations.

• “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant” by Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn, published in Psychological Science. It has more than 4,100 citations.

• “The Danish National Patient Register” by Elsebeth Lynge, Jakob Lynge Sandegaard, and Matejka Rebolj published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. It has more than 2,800 citations.

Ziyad Marar, President of Global Publishing at SAGE, said:

“One size does not fit all in measuring research excellence, and relying solely on indicators that track citations two years later fails to capture the value that research can continue to bring – both inside and outside of academia – for far longer. The impact of the social and behavioral sciences, for example, is often more diffuse and gradual and as a result, they tend to make an impact over much larger time horizons. As a company committed to enabling the development and lasting impact of knowledge for public good, we hope these awards will encourage a more nuanced array of metrics that capture the complex, subtle, diffuse, many-layered and – often – long-term nature of research impact."

Marar’s recent essay “On Measuring Social Science Impact” in Organization Studies outlines why it is critical to understand social and behavioral science’s (SBS) broad impact and to look beyond traditional citation-based measures to demonstrate that impact.

 SAGE’s initiatives in support of this include:

• Various open research collections geared towards policy change

• Tracking five-year versus two-year impact for SBS research

• Publishing numerous books, including the What Do We Know and What Can We Do About...? Series, focused on important public policy issues

• The 2019 whitepaper “The Latest Thinking About Metrics for Research Impact in the Social Sciences”

• A curated section of the Social Science Space website that follows the conversation on measuring and promoting impact in the social and behavioral sciences

To view the list of the top 100 most-cited 2011 articles, email PR@sagepub.co.uk. To learn more about the awards, visit Social Science Space.

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