Research impact: neither quick nor easy

BMC Medicine

Anna Williamson¹  Abby Haynes¹  Sally Redman¹ 

[1] The Sax Institute, Level 13 Building 10, 235 Jones Street, Ultimo 2007, NSW, Australia

关键词: Research impact;    Partnerships;    Knowledge translation;    Health policy;    Funding;   

Others  :  1228414
DOI  :  10.1186/s12916-015-0501-6

 received in 2015-09-28, accepted in 2015-09-28,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Redman et al.

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