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The payback of ‘Payback’: challenges in assessing research impact

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My personal questioning of the impact of my research career in health economics subsequently led to a series of studies concerning the assessment of impact. That stream of research has emphasised, among other things: the importance of the ‘counterfactual’; that impact was the product of the system as a whole and only partially influenced by researchers; and that the timescales necessary to observe impact were long and varied. The lags involved mean that funders seek short-term indicators of long-term impact but our evidence suggests that measures of academic impact are poor predictors of the broader impact that may eventually arise. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Martin Buxton, 2011. "The payback of ‘Payback’: challenges in assessing research impact," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 20(3), pages 259-260, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rseval:v:20:y:2011:i:3:p:259-260
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    1. Martin Kenney & Donald Patton, 2018. "Sub-national technology policy and commerce: evaluating the impacts of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 43(1), pages 47-68, February.
    2. Anthony G. Bartlett, 2018. "Factors Affecting the Relative Success of Collaborative Forestry Research Projects in Indonesia," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 30(5), pages 892-913, December.
    3. Lutz Bornmann, 2013. "What is societal impact of research and how can it be assessed? a literature survey," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 64(2), pages 217-233, February.

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