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SAGE Publishing’s 10-Year Impact Awards Honor Research with Influence 10 Years After Publication

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:

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:

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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Driven by the belief that social and behavioral science has the power to improve society, we focus on publishing impactful research, enabling robust research methodology, and producing high quality educational resources that support instructors to prepare the citizens, policymakers, educators and researchers of the future. We publish more than 1,000 journals and 600 new books globally each year, as well as library resources that include archives, data, case studies, video, and technologies for discovery, access, and engagement. SAGE’s founder, Sara Miller McCune, has transferred control of the company to an independent trust, guaranteeing its independence indefinitely.