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Author: Scott Epstein

When researchers and policy makers work together, they can make real improvements in the real, wider world. That’s one of the reasons why ���ϳԹ��� has signed on to helping promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To see some examples of this, I’d like to take a look at how this plays out with just one of those goals. For this example, I’m going to take SDG 7—Affordable and Clean Energy. 

To see what ���ϳԹ��� offers in clean energy, I examined the top Altmetric and cited recent (2020 and younger) articles—and that’s for all of our major imprints, so BMC, Nature, Springer in particular. These “star” articles represent work across a range of disciplines, but all aiming towards that sustainable goal of clean energy. So you can see how the impact spreads across areas, I’ll break these down by imprint (and I’ll include the publishing journal, too.) 

Springer

• “,” by Yun Zhang and Xiaojie Xu, published in Applied Physics A, 26 citations.
• “,” by Manfred Thumm, published in the Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 34 citations.
• “,” by Licheng Sun, Lin Qin, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Jillian Zhang, Muhammed Mohsin, and Imran Sharif Chaudhry, published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27 citations.

Nature Portfolio

• “,” by Sha Liu, Jun Yuan, Wanyuan Deng, Mei Luo, Yuan Xie, Quanbin Liang, Yingping Zou, Zhicai He, Honbin Wu, and Yong Cao, published in Nature Photonics, 152 citations and an Altmetric score of 3.
• “,” by Qing Zhao, Sanjuna Stalin, Chen-Zi Zhao, and Lynden A. Archer, published in Nature Reviews Materials, Altmetric score of 17.
• “,” by Arumugam Manthiram, published in Nature Communications. (Open Access) 151 citations and an Altmetric score of 66.

BMC

(The following articles are all Open Access)

• “,” by Stefano Campanaro, Laura Treu, Luis M. Rodriguez-R, Adam Kovalovski, Ryan M. Ziels, Irena Maus, Xinyu Zhu, et al., published in Biotechnology for Biofuels, 24 citations and an Altmetric score of 11.
• “,” by Jagriti Saini, Maitreyee Dutta, and Gonçalo Marques, published in Sustainable Environment Research, 19 citations and an Altmetric score of 1. 
• “,” by Shubo Li, Li Huang, Chengzhu Ke, Zongwen Pang, adn Liming Liu, published in Biotechnology for Biofuels, 12 citations. 

I do also want to mention some other tools we have to help bring research to policy makers and also the wider world. One is SharedIt—���ϳԹ���’s free content sharing initiative that provides a simple, quick, and legitimate way for researchers to share their content. 

Another is our Societal Impact toolkit; and you can read about that .