http://ses.sp.homolog.bvs.br/local/File/LSE_Impact_Handbook_April_2011.pdf

There are few academics who are interested in doing research that simply has noinfluence on anyone else in academia or outside. Some perhaps will be content toproduce ‘shelf-bending’ work that goes into a library (included in a publishedjournal or book), and then over the next decades ever-so-slightly bends the shelfit sits on. But we believe that they are in a small minority.