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How research data deliver non-academic impacts : A secondary analysis of UK Research Excellence Framework impact case studies
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Jensen, Eric A., Wong, Paul and Reed, Mark S. (2022) How research data deliver non-academic impacts : A secondary analysis of UK Research Excellence Framework impact case studies. PLoS One, 17 (3). e0264914. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0264914 ISSN 1932-6203.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264914
Abstract
This study investigates how research data contributes to non-academic impacts using a secondary analysis of high-scoring impact case studies from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). A content analysis was conducted to identify patterns, linking research data and impact. The most prevalent type of research data-driven impact related to “practice” (45%), which included changing how professionals operate, changing organizational culture and improving workplace productivity or outcomes. The second most common category was “government impacts”, including reducing government service costs and enhancing government effectiveness or efficiency. Impacts from research data were developed most frequently through “improved institutional processes or methods” (40%) and developing impact via pre-analyzed or curated information in reports (32%), followed by “analytic software or methods” (26%). The analysis found that research data on their own rarely generate impacts. Instead they require analysis, curation, product development or other forms of significant intervention to leverage broader non-academic impacts.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education L Education > LC Special aspects of education Q Science > Q Science (General) Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Education, Higher -- Evaluation -- Great Britain, Research -- Great Britain -- Evaluation, Scholarly publishing, Educational sociology -- Great Britain, Educational change -- Great Britain, Database management | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS One | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 10 March 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 17 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | e0264914 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0264914 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 April 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 April 2022 | ||||||||
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