By linking national scholarly infrastructures we can better understand the impact of global research - LSE Impact

"Research in the social sciences and humanities often seeks to benefit local, national, or regional communities. While international communities of researchers advance knowledge in their respective fields, a large share of social research is locally oriented, and the transfer of findings into application requires local expertise and capacities.

Global scholarly information systems, including bibliometric databases, are indispensable for international comparability, but they cannot fully capture complex realities of national research systems, such as language, institutional fragmentation, and differing research traditions. These factors, and the inherently localised orientation of social and humanistic research make national research information infrastructures indispensable. While one global research system unites scholars around the world, not all research is, or should be, globally relevant.

Much of this locally relevant scholarship, especially when published in languages other than English, is effectively invisible in international citation databases due to their indexing policies."