Podcasts and presentations are available from the Investigating Academic Impact Conference hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) of the University of London held on 13 June 2011. Among the sections included are: Current Thinking in Assessing Impact Innovative Methods for Impact and Engagement A ‘How To’ Guide to Measuring Your [...]
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“The title of a paper acts as a gateway to its content. It’s the first thing potential readers of the paper see, before deciding to move on to the abstract or full text. As academic authors want to maximize the readership of their papers it is unsurprising that they usually take a lot of care [...]
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Universities UK (UUK) issued a joint statement on impact. “Benefits can result from an individual piece of research, or from a body of activity conducted over a period and perhaps across several departments or universities. They can take a wide variety of [...]
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Google Scholar introduced a new tool, Google Scholar Citations, for tracking of citations. Three metrics are available: the h-index, the i-10 index, which is the number of articles with at least ten citations, and the total number of citations to your articles. Once a profile is created, users have the option of making the profile [...]
Talley, et al. Database of NIH grants using machine-learned categories and graphical clustering. Nature Methods. Volume: 8, Pages: 443–444. (2011). To facilitate navigation and discovery of NIH-funded research, the authors created a database that uses text mining to extract latent categories and clusters from NIH grant titles and abstracts.
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“Whether academics like it or not, having to prove the impact of research on external audiences is becoming a permanent feature of university life. Government research bodies are pressing (and being pressed) more and more for academics to show the positive impact of the money being poured into universities, research groups, and particular projects, especially [...]
“In an age when media, business, government and almost every aspect of modern society vies for the users’ attention, how can we ensure that the resources that are being created through public funds reach and engage with their constituent audiences?” See the report “Maximising Online Resource Effectiveness” for “producing, promoting and developing content most effectively.” [...]
“For the past year a team of academics based at the London School of Economics, the University of Leeds and Imperial College have been working on a ‘Research Impacts’ project aimed at developing precise methods for measuring and evaluating the impact of research in the public sphere.” Maximizing the Impacts of Your Research: A Handbook [...]
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“Clinical research has greater societal impact over a 15–20 year timescale, while basic research has greater academic impact, according to a new study from RAND Europe and the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) at Brunel University.” Full Report: Project Retrosight
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“OSTP is happy to announce the launch of the beta version of a new online tool that allows the public to track U.S. progress in innovation. The R&D Dashboard is a new website that helps users document and demonstrate the impacts of Federal investments in research and development (R&D).”
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