provincial perspectives on research impacts: eddy nason, renata osika, krista connell, allison barr
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Metrics, indicators and assessment – the global context
CASRAI – ReConnect 2015
October 28, 2015
SPOR
SPOR Core Elements, Taken from CIHR presentation to “Vice-Presidents Research Webex Meeting”, Nov
2014 (available at http://slideplayer.com/slide/5293562/#)
International Issue
• International School on
Research Impact
Assessment
• This is a hot topic everywhere…
Taken from International School on Research Impact
Assessment –Introduction to the School slide deck.
Where Impacts occur from REF 2014
REF 2014 Impacts, Taken from: King’s College London and Digital Science (2015), The
nature, scale and beneficiaries of research impact: An initial analysis of Research
Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 impact case studies, Research Report 2015/01, p41.
Main players and approaches
• UK
• REF and impact case
studies
• Health research funders
agreement on metrics
• US
• STAR Metrics
• Portfolio Analysis
• Netherlands
• Societal Impacts of Health
Research
• ERiC
• Australia
• ERA
• Spain
• AQuAS
• Sweden
• Vinnova
• KNOWSCIENCE
• Europe (EC)
• SIAMPI
• Qatar
• QNRF
• (and Canada)
Commonalities and differences
• Commonalities • Differences
Presenting complex impact metric data –
a REF lesson
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Impact relationships, Taken from: King’s College
London and Digital Science (2015), p31.
Presenting complex impact metric data –
a REF lesson
Impact relationships, Taken from: King’s College
London and Digital Science (2015), p39.
Presenting complex impact metric data –
a REF lesson
Impact relationships, Taken from: King’s College
London and Digital Science (2015), p35.
Presenting complex impact metric data –
RAISS Output
Taken from International School on Research Impact
Assessment –Questionairres slide deck.
Interesting challenges…
http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/201
5/06/24/attention-is-not-impact-and-
other-challenges-for-altmetrics/
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/aug/04/research-
metrics-higher-education-academic-measure-university
