Automated Research Impact Assessment: A New Bibliometrics Approach.

ABSTRACT: As federal programs are held more accountable for their research investments, The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has developed a new method to quantify the impact of our funded research on the scientific and broader communities. In this article we review traditional bibliometric analyses, address challenges associated with them, and describe a new bibliometric analysis method, the Automated Research Impact Assessment (ARIA). ARIA taps into a resource that has only rarely been used for bibliometric analyses: references cited in "important" research artifacts, such as policies, regulations, clinical guidelines, and expert panel reports. The approach includes new statistics that science managers can use to benchmark contributions to research by funding source. Thi

SUBMITTER: Drew CH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4791943 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature