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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

What does it mean for scholarly fields to have an impact, and how do they compare?

Had a *great* conversation yesterday with my colleague Yian Yin, who linked academic papers with government mentions, news mentions, and patents.

This chart from his research compares different fields in terms of these three outcomes

nature.com/articles/s41562-022

a–t, Different scientific fields experience distinct and typically specialized public uses. The usage metric RCI for the three public domains are presented for each field (b–t). The dashed triangles represent a null model where each paper has the same chance to be used (a). The colour scheme highlights four high-level areas of research—the physical sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and ecology and earth sciences—following the four major clusters of science detected by ref. 62 and suggesting commonalities in patterns of public use within these four areas.
Sep 01, 2023, 11:35 AM·Public
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣

Large-scale quantitative studies like this are limited by the outcome measures they use, so it's not surprising that public value of art, history, and philosophy is under-estimated. I'll admit I was surprised to see psychology receive more citations in government and the news than economics.

I was also fascinated to see that computer scientists contribute waaay more to patents than to public discourse or policy conversations, which might be part of the problem in tech policy.

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