Evidence use – whether we call it knowledge exchange, research impact, or some other variant – is essentially a relational process, and takes place in social settings (Dobrow et al, 2004; Mitton et al, 2007;Weiss et al, 2012; Oliver, Lorenc and Innvær, 2014; Cairney et al, 2016;Ward, 2017). For this Special Issue, we asked how can this variety of network approaches contribute to our understanding of how evidence comes to be constructed and is used in policy and practice.There are significant gaps in our understanding of how relationships influence evidence use; how networks have been theorised and operationalised; and the methods we can use to investigate network structure, ties and meaning. In this special issue, we bring together cutting-edge research and commentary on some of these questions,to enable a more holistic understanding of the potential contributions of networks and network analysis to understanding the use of evidence.

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