Do social scientists care if their research makes outside impact?

How much do social and behavioral scientists care that their research is valued and applied outside of academiaü How much does it matter to them that it makes a positive impact on societyü How important are journal reputation and impact factorü Does anyone care about publisher reputationü And how much does a researcher’s, gender, point in career, and the country in which they work correlate with responsesü In 2021, SAGE Publishing put out a survey to social and behavioral scientists asking them about what motivates them to do research and get it published and more than 3,000 from 117 countries responded. This poster will share findings related to researcher motivation, how researchers see that their institutions reward research with outside impact (or not), as well as if and how they make time to expand the reach of their research.

Full findings will come out in a white paper later in 2022.