Measuring the Impact of Research: Lessons from the UK's Research Excellence Framework 2014.

ABSTRACT: Impactful academic research plays a stellar role in society, pressing to ask the question of how one measures the impact created by different areas of academic research. Measuring the societal, cultural, economic and scientific impact of research is currently the priority of the National Science Foundation, European Commission and several research funding agencies. The recently concluded United Kingdom's national research quality exercise, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, which piloted impact assessment as part of the overall evaluation offers a lens to view how impact of research in different disciplines can be measured. Overall research quality was assessed through quality of outputs, 'impact' and research environment. We performed two studies using the REF 2014 as a case st

SUBMITTER: Chowdhury G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4898824 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature