{"id":86673,"date":"2025-10-14T07:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=86673"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:38:37","slug":"more-on-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/14\/more-on-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"More on impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about the impact of my work yesterday, focusing on this blog and its associated YouTube channel, but one commentator said I should also highlight my academic work, the impact of which is recorded on <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=mTN3a10AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a>, a website that records the impact of most academics in the UK, mainly by ranking the number of citations their publications get.<\/p>\n<p>These are my most cited publications:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-86675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-10.59.19-550x585.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-10.59.19-550x585.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-10.59.19-282x300.png 282w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-10.59.19-768x816.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-10.59.19-376x400.png 376w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-10.59.19.png 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are my citation totals.<\/p>\n<p>I know many professors with lower numbers. I also know those with many more, but given I was a late arrival into the academic sphere, I am assured these are good figures. The indices are explained on <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=mTN3a10AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a>. Unsurprisingly, my citation numbers are falling; more recently, I have focused less on this kind of work, but the rate is still surprisingly high, at least to me. This is another form of impact.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.00.00.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.00.00.png 490w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.00.00-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.00.00-348x400.png 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about the impact of my work yesterday, focusing on this blog and its associated YouTube channel, but one commentator said I should also<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/14\/more-on-impact\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-economics","category-sheffield-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86693,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86673\/revisions\/86693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}