Engaging with research impact assessment for an environmental science case study.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31586044.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-12020-z and PMC identifier 6778146.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Impact assessment is embedded in many national and international research rating systems. Most applications use the Research Impact Pathway to track inputs, activities, outputs and outcomes of an invention or initiative to assess impact beyond scholarly contributions to an academic research field (i.e., benefits to environment, society, economy and culture). Existing approaches emphasise easy to attribute 'hard' impacts, and fail to include a range of 'soft' impacts that are less easy to attribute, yet are often a dominant part of the impact mix. Here, we develop an inclusive 3-part impact mapping approach. We demonstrate its application using an environmental initiative.