{"id":16135,"date":"2024-02-01T08:56:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T08:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/?post_type=news&p=16135"},"modified":"2024-02-01T08:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T08:56:52","slug":"secret-sauce-for-uk-social-sciences-identified-using-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/news\/secret-sauce-for-uk-social-sciences-identified-using-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Secret sauce\u2019\u00a0 for UK social sciences identified using Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social sciences are the key ingredients to produce effective UK research and innovation according to a new report by the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)<\/a>, using data from Dimensions<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report<\/a> \u2013 titled \u2018Reimagining the Recipe for Research & Innovation: The Secret Sauce of Social Science<\/a>\u2019 and co-authored by Digital Science<\/a>  \u2013 has been published to help policymakers, universities and research managers recognize the added value social sciences bring to STEM research areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The secret sauce has four active ingredients based on the social sciences – enabling whole-systems thinking, understanding they are critical for good policy development, that they underpin smart and responsible innovation, and that they are essential to international collaboration and tackling shared global challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essential to the development of the report was the use of Dimensions<\/a> – the world\u2019s largest collection of linked research data. To more fully understand the scope of collaborative research in the UK, the report\u2019s authors utilized \u2018out-of-the-box\u2019 elements of Digital Science\u2019s Dimensions\u2019 database. These included: <\/p>\n\n\n\n