Comments on: Research Impact Measurement – Timeline https://access.okfn.org/2015/06/10/research-impact-measurement-timeline/ Sharing the results of publicly funded research Sun, 08 May 2016 10:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: Iara Vidal https://access.okfn.org/2015/06/10/research-impact-measurement-timeline/#comment-235395 Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:51:27 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=716#comment-235395 I have two suggestions:
2012: A group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals met in December 2012 during the ASCB Annual Meeting in San Francisco and launched the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), with reccomendations to improve the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated (http://www.ascb.org/dora/).
2015: After discussions during the 2014 International conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters, Ludo Waltman, Sarah de Rijcke and Ismael Rafols publish The Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics, with ten principles to guide research evaluation (http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/).

]]> By: Ian Viney https://access.okfn.org/2015/06/10/research-impact-measurement-timeline/#comment-230100 Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:57:30 +0000 https://access.okfn.org/?p=716#comment-230100 2006 Peter Warry’s report challenges the UK research councils to go further in demonstrating their economic impact http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/Publications/archive/TheWarryReport/

2008 The MRC launch a new online approach to gather feedback from researchers about the output from their work, first called the “Outputs Data Gathering Tool”, it is revised and renamed “MRC eVal” in 2009 and then re-developed as “Researchfish” in 2012. http://www.mrc.ac.uk/research/achievements/evaluation-programme/?nav=sidebar

2008 The MRC, Wellcome Trust and Academy of Medical Sciences publish the first “Medical Research: What’s it worth?” analysis the result of two years of discussion under the auspices of the UK Evaluation Forum, and ground-breaking analysis by the Health Economics Research Group at Brunel, RAND Europe and the Office of Health Economics. The findings provide a new UK estimate of the return on investment from medical research http://www.mrc.ac.uk/news-events/publications/medical-research-whats-it-worth/

2009 UK research councils introduce “pathways to impact” as a major new section in all RCUK applications for funding. Applicants are asked to set out measures taken to maximise impact. http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/innovation/impacts/

2012 MRC launches a new funding initiative for studies aimed at better understanding the link between research and impact over the next two years 7 awards are made totalling £1M. http://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/how-we-fund-research/highlight-notices/economic-impact-highlight-notice/

2012 ORCID launches its registry and begins minting identifiers

2014 RCUK extends the Researchfish approach to all disciplines and implements the process across all research council funding. 18,000 principal investigators complete the process, providing 800,000 reports of outputs linked to over £16 billion of RCUK funded awards. http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/researchoutcomes/

2015 100 research funding organisations are using Researchfish in the UK, tracking the progress and productivity of more than £4.5billion of funding for new grants each year.

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