David Resnick, Product Marketing Manager of Smartsimple Software, will tell the clear goal of CASRAI is to develop standards relating to interoperability across research funders and institutions, at Reconnect12:
Incentivizing Impact – Easy Input, Better Outcomes
Evolving data, tools, and methods for assessing the economic impacts of science and research at multiple points in the chain linking inputs to impact, particularly the approach of STAR METRICS, at Reconnect12:
Approaches to the Economic Impacts of Research
Adil Hamdouna, Executive Director of eVision Inc., How research community can applaud itself on the success made with CASRAI in bringing together the key players and advancing a common platform for the reuse, sharing and comparing of information, at Reconnect12:
Data Flows: Putting Standards-based Processes into Place at Funders and Institutions
Tom Letcher, VP, Business Development of Symplectic Limited, will discuss that how Altmetrics aims to explore the many different ways to measure scientific contributions. Whether it’s measuring how papers get mentioned in news or social media, viewed online or blogged about, or how research data are shared, at Reconnect12:
Altmetrics 101
Ann Kushmerick, Manager, Research Evaluation and Bibliometric Data of Thomson Reuters, will discuss that how an institute can assess faculty productivity and institutional research performance using publication, citation key performance indicators and funding acknowledgements, at Reconnect12:
Assessing faculty productivity and institutional research performance using publication, citation key performance indicators and funding acknowledgements
Jan Maier, Founder and CEO of AVEDAS Inc., and Thorsten Hoellrigl, also of AVEDAS Inc., will discuss emerging federated systems that process information pertaining to research processes, and also the possibilities for establishing standards in such federations in order to protect autonomy while promoting information utility, in the following panel at Reconnect12:
Federation and the Necessity of Standards: A Case Study
Kelli Barr, Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for the Study of Interdisicplinarity (US), offers some thoughts on our questions about the nature and future of impact assessment. Join the conversation by posting your thoughts and comments below Barr's answers.
Sonia Buksa, Grants & Awards Analyst at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (Canada), offers some thoughts on our questions about the nature and future of impact assessment. Join the conversation by posting your thoughts and comments below Buksa's answers.
Amy Lemay, President, VISTA Science & Technology Inc., offers some thoughts on our questions about the nature and future of impact assessment. Join the conversation by posting your thoughts and comments below Lemay's answers.
Martin Kirk, Direct of Research Services at the University of British Columbia (Canada), offers some thoughts on our questions about the nature and future of impact assessment. Join the conversation by posting your thoughts and comments below Kirk's answers.
1) What are the greatest opportunities for the impact assessment community at the moment?
Kirk: Very obviously to develop impact metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that better demonstrate the value and/or impact of research for society, taxpayers, and governments.
