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| Title |
Research impact: neither quick nor easy
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-015-0501-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sally Redman, Abby Haynes, Anna Williamson |
| Abstract |
Greenhalgh and Fahy's paper about the 2014 Research Excellence Framework provides insights into the challenges of assessing research impact. Future research assessment exercises should consider how best to include measurement of indirect and non-linear impact and whether efforts in knowledge transfer and co-production should be explicitly recognised. Greenhalgh and Fahy's findings also demonstrate that the structure of the assessment exercise can privilege certain kinds of research and may therefore miss some research that has a high impact on policy and practice. There are a growing number of courses, tools, and funding models to assist researchers in making an impact, although as yet there is little evidence about whether these approaches work in practice.Please see related article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/232 . |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 40 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 13 | 33% |
| Australia | 6 | 15% |
| Canada | 3 | 8% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Sweden | 1 | 3% |
| Timor-Leste | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 13 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 20 | 50% |
| Scientists | 14 | 35% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 10% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 73 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 71 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 18 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 22% |
| Librarian | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 7% |
| Professor | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 21% |
| Unknown | 10 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 23 | 32% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 17 | 23% |
| Unknown | 12 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2016.
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#1,567,811
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#1,111
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#22,010
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#38
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