1. Students will what impact is -in pop culture, but especially as a measurement of success in academia.
2. Students will learn how to perform research with impact-oriented databases such as SCOPUS and Web of Science
3. Students will learn how to make mind maps to validate and organize their research.
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Schuessler, J. (2018, March 14). Cass Sunstein Wins Holberg Prize. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/arts/cass-sunstein-wins-holberg-prize.html
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When you do a search in a database for something like, anxiety AND depression, and you get 357,000 results -(narrowed to the last 5 years of publication dates!) -how do you know which one is "the best"!? It is overwhelming!
For music, one way to find "the best" is to rank by streaming media usage and sales: Billboard Top 100
For websites, one method is to rank by number of searches: Google Trends
For products/services, some methods are top seller, or best reviewed: Toothbrushes at Amazon
For research & scholarship, this impact can be measured by how many times an article is cited:
SCOPUS
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Web of Science
ALSO:
US Newsstream (All the newspapers in the U.S.!? -well no, but close -400+ North American newspaper titles that you can search all at once) -if you search a keyword/term in 2022, how many times does it show up? in which cities does it matter most?
Google Ngrams: (all the books (give or take a few million)) in academic libraries. If you do a search, when did your key terms matter and what percentage do they show up? For example: when did the term "satanic cult" first become prevalent? 1700s? 1800s?
What is a mind map? How can I use that to organize my literature review, annotated bibliography, or sort out my sources?
