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Research Impact is a measure of how academic research affects the real world.

Description
This is our departmental page on Research Impact research-impact.org

Research Impact is used in evaluating the Research Excellence Framework which is being developed in the UK to evaluate academic institutions. This work has emphasised the need for more engagement with the general public and the increase of number of case studies that undertook a interdisciplinary approach.

Measures
Academic impact can be

It is related to impact factor” which is a quantitative measure of the number of times a particular journals have their papers cited in other literature. Journals like "Nature" or the Lancet have a high impact factor. These journals are considered more reliable.

Case studies
The Research-impact.org team at Loughborough University's Business and Economic School have been experimenting with crowdfunding to increase the university's researchers' public engagement. ....

Researchers on the Zooniverse project have used thousands of volunteers as additional researchers to evaluate millions of pictures of galaxies.