Research Impact Quantification
1994; Wiley; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1467-9310.1994.tb00874.x
ISSN1467-9310
Autores Tópico(s)Data Quality and Management
ResumoA method was developed to quantify the impacts of research. The method is able to identify indirect impacts of research, and the pathways through which they are disseminated. A fully connected network is constructed whose nodes represent research, technology, and mission areas. The total impact of a given research node on any other node is the sum of the impacts (link value products) along every path in the network, and includes research‐research, research‐technology, and technology‐research impacts. A pilot study was performed using a taxonomy of research and development nodes, with the raw input data (the link values) obtained from a survey of experts. An algorithm processed the data to provide total impact results, which are presented here.
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