Planning and assessing societal impact of research - presentation for Library Lunch session 21 May 2019

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Melanie Imming & Jon Tennant. (2018, June 8). Sticker open science: just science done right. Zenodo.
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.128557

5. Pic by Kelly Tan

6. Improve social cohesion
and well-being
Improve effectiveness
and sustainability of
policy
and activities by ‘third
parties
Improve quality of life
and cultural wealth
Enlarge economic
prosperity
and robustness
Continuity of funding
Trust of citizens
Touchstone
Relevance
Personal skills
Fulfillment

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SO WHAT?
Activities Outputs Outcomes Impact
HOW?
Problem
Impact may be big or small, instrumental (direct change) or
conceptual (ideas, feelings), quantitative or qualitative.
There is no single type of impact.
Understanding terminology
Identify what is process (pathway to) and what is
effect/result (impact)

11. Image by
@Copperants

12. In tune with contemporary research practices
Internal + external communication
Different voice
Extra channel
Creating a community (online/offline)
Develop in-house expertise

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“Highly tweeted articles were
11 times more likely to be
highly cited.” (Eysenbach
2011)
“Papers mentioned on Twitter
are more downloaded and
cited than papers which are
not.” (Shuai 2011)
“Twitter activity was a more
important predictor of citation
than 5-year journal impact
factor.” (Peoples 2016)
“Twitter activity was not driven
by journal impact factor, the
‘highest-impact’ journals were
not necessarily the most
discussed online.” (Peoples
2016)
“Factors driving social media
and citations are different.
Social media metrics cannot
be seen as alternative to
citations.” (Haustein 2015)
“Among social media metrics,
citations correlate the most
with Twitter, although tweets
are not a good predictor of
citation impact.” (Haustein
2015)

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There must be an ID
Not about body of work or
general expertise
Different traditions in different
disciplines
Dependent on Altmetric
inclusion/tracking

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https://www.ugent.be/en/research/open-science.htm
https://www.ugent.be/en/research/research-evaluation.htm
https://www.ugent.be/en/research/indicators.htm
https://www.ugent.be/en/research/portfolio-research.htm
https://www.ugent.be/intranet/en/research/organisation/soc-value
https://www.ugent.be/intranet/nl/op-het-werk/onderzoek-
onderwijs/onderzoek/beleid/maatschappelijke-
valorisatie/altmetric/altmetric.htm
Principles for research assessment
Dimensions of research
Actions within framework of societal impact

21. https://www.ugent.be/nl/onderzoek/financiering/bof/inter
disciplinaireonderzoeksconsortia/idcoproep.htm

22. @ResearchUGent
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Esther De Smet
Research Department
May 2019