SSH researchers make an impact differently. Looking at public research from the perspective of users
| العنوان: | SSH researchers make an impact differently. Looking at public research from the perspective of users |
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| المؤلفون: | Andrea Bonaccorsi, Gualtiero Fantoni, Filippo Chiarello |
| المصدر: | Research Evaluation. 30:269-289 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | impact assessment, business.industry, 05 social sciences, Perspective (graphical), Public research, text mining, social sciences and humanities, Library and Information Sciences, Public relations, 050905 science studies, Education, research users, lexicon, Sociology, 0509 other social sciences, 050904 information & library sciences, business |
| الوصف: | With the rise of the impact assessment revolution, governments and public opinion have started to ask researchers to give evidence of their impact outside the traditional audiences, i.e. students and researchers. There is a mismatch between the request to demonstrate the impact and the current methodologies for impact assessment. This mismatch is particularly worrisome for the research in Social Sciences and Humanities. This paper gives a contribution by examining systematically a key element of impact, i.e. the social groups that are directly or indirectly affected by the results of research. We use a Text mining approach applied to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) collection of 6,637 impact case studies in order to identify social groups mentioned by researchers. Differently from previous studies, we employ a lexicon of user groups that includes 76,857 entries, which saturates the semantic field, permits the identification of all users and opens the way to normalization. We then develop three new metrics measuring Frequency, Diversity and Specificity of user expressions. We find that Social Sciences and Humanities exhibit a distinctive structure with respect to frequency and specificity of users. |
| تدمد: | 1471-5449 0958-2029 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::2d59cb73566f1bba6263b8dff6ecf0a4 https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvab008 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....2d59cb73566f1bba6263b8dff6ecf0a4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14715449 09582029 |
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