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Research Impact is a measure of how academic research affects the real world.

Description

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This is our departmental page on Research Impact research-impact.org

Research Impact is used in evaluating the Research Excellence Framework which is being developed in the UK to evaluate academic institutions.[1] This work has emphasised the need for more engagement with the general public and the increase of number of case studies that undertook a interdisciplinary approach.[1]

Measures

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Academic impact can be

It is related to impact factor” which is a quantitative measure of the number of times a particular journals have their papers cited in other literature.[2] Journals like "Nature" or the Lancet have a high impact factor. These journals are considered more reliable.

Case studies

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The Research-impact.org team at Loughborough University's Business and Economic School have been experimenting with crowdfunding to increase the university's researchers' public engagement.[3]....

Researchers on the Zooniverse project have used thousands of volunteers as additional researchers to evaluate millions of pictures of galaxies.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Stern, Lord Nicholas; et al. (July 2016). "Building on Success and Learning from Experience" (PDF). gov.uk. UK Government. Retrieved 3 January 2017. {{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |last= (help)
  2. ^ "Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications". Impact of Social Sciences. 2015-09-08. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  3. ^ Rubin, Tzameret (2017). "Is it possible to get the crowd to fund research, isn't it the government's role?". AESIS. Retrieved 2016-12-23.
  4. ^ "To the Zooniverse and beyond | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-05.