The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a series of 17 goals designed to eradicate extreme poverty, fight inequality, and stop climate change by 2030. Universities playan important part in achieving these goals and this poster outlines LSE’s major contribution towards UN Sustainable Development Goals to demonstrate the value of social sciences to society.

To get an overview of LSE’s overall contribution, we used citation analysis tools such as Scopus’ predefined search queries relating to the 17 different SDGs to map LSE research publicationsbetween 2006 and 2017. Once this data was gathered, we estimated the amount of LSE publications produced towards specific SDGs then were able to identify which topics are prominent,who were our major partners as well as the proportion and characteristics of LSE most-cited papers. We have also assessed how many of our publications towards SDGs have been madefreely available to society (open access) and how policy makers have engaged with our findings to support the United Nations goals.

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TOWARDS A BETTER WORLD LSE’s MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN SDGs ANALYSED BY THE LIBRARYNathalie Cornée - Digital Scholarship and Innovation Group - LSE Library

LSE PUBLICATIONS PER SDG

RESEARCH INFLUENCE SOCIETAL INFLUENCE

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64%

53%

47%

55%

61%

167 118

2062 699 535 452 1134

76 245 39 96 91 256 68 23 81 396

AMOUNT OF PUBLICATIONSNo. of publications per year

MAJOR RESEARCH TOPICS Co-occurrence map based on title and

abstract data in publication

TOP CITED PUBLICATIONS Proportion of publications that fall into the top 1%, 5%, 10% or 25% of the world’s most highly cited publications (weighted by field)

AUTHORHSIP Number of LSE authors per

publication

MAJOR PARTNERS LSE’s top collaborating

research institutions

OPEN ACCESS

Proportion of publications freely

accessible to society

POLICY MENTIONS

Amount of mentions of LSEpublications by policy makers

(top 5 countries)

Tools and Data Sources (2006-2017) Elsevier SciVal Elsevier SciVal Web of Science Altmetric Explorer Elsevier SciVal Elsevier SciValVOSviewer