Going beyond counts: understanding impact

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BioinformaticistWashington University in St. Louis

Kristi Holmes

Going beyond counts: understanding impact

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Going beyond counts: understanding impact Kristi Holmes

Translational Research

The bench to the bedside and beyond

http://icts.wustl.edu/

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Why do we need to think about research impact?• Quantify and document research

impact

• Justify future requests for funding

• Quantify return on research investment

• Discover how research findings are being used

• Identify similar research projects

• Identify possible collaborators

• Determine if research findings are duplicated, confirmed, corrected, improved or repudiated

• Determine if research findings were extended (different human populations, different animal models/species, etc.)

• Confirm that research findings were properly attributed/credited

• Demonstrate that research findings are resulting in meaningful health outcomes

• Discover community benefit as a result of research findings

• Progress reports• Tenure• Promotion dossiershttps://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment/model

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How do we think about productivity?

http://www.philnel.com/2010/10/14/procrastigrading/

Don’t knock publications• Citations

– Rates and rankings

– Networks

– Dissemination patterns

• Collaboration

• Dissemination

• Grant funding

• Research trends

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…but there’s so much more!

http://www.philnel.com/2010/10/14/procrastigrading/

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Research Impact

Wells R, Whitworth A. 2007. Assessing outcomes of health and medical research: do we measure what counts or count what we can measure? Australia and New Zealand Health Policy, 4:14

“It is no longer enough to measure what we can – we need to measure what matters.”

So how do we measure what matters?

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Going beyond the counts to find meaningful impact

In everyone’s CV, we’ll find• Reviews• New funding awarded• New types of funding

mechanisms• New research studies• Invited lectures, new focus areas

at conferences• Membership on committees• Awards

Consider specific pathways* to uncover meaningful impact…Advancement of KnowledgeClinical ImplementationLegislation and Policy Enactment Economic BenefitCommunity Benefit

*can be adapted to reflect any number of disciplines

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Going beyond the counts to find meaningful impact • New diagnostic criteria

• New standard of care• Curriculum guidelines• Measurement instruments• Continuing education materials• Clinical/practice guidelines• Quality measure guidelines• Private healthcare benefit plans• Cost-effective intervention• Consensus development conferences

American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes

• Change in delivery of healthcare services

http://icts.wustl.edu/

http://icts.wustl.edu/

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Slide title

https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment

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The Becker Model• Provides a supplement to publication analysis to provide a more

robust and comprehensive perspective of biomedical research impact.– reporting templates, glossary of resources and terms, examples of relevant indicators

of impact across the research process, and readings

• Straightforward framework for tracking diffusion of research outputs and activities to locate indicators that demonstrate evidence of biomedical research impact– individual, core, and institutional-level; modify for different disciplines

• Guidance for quantifying and documenting research impact as well as resources for locating evidence of impact.

• Strategies for enhancing the impact of research

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Strategies for enhancing the impact of research

https://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment/strategies

Repetition, consistency, and an awareness of the intended

audience form the basis of most the strategies.

Suggestions for researchers and recommendations to reach out to their

library for assistance.

The strategies focus upon Preparing for Publication,

Dissemination, and Keeping Track of Your Research.

Optimizing discoverability and access of your research is the

surest way to enhance its visibility and impact.

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Understanding the impact of a single paper can be challenging.

How do we understand the impact of a person? A research center? A university?

How do we scale up and operationalize this process?

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Research networking and discovery systems

• Enable more efficient means of collecting & representing meaningful outputs en masse

• Showcase achievements and expertise

• Facilitate diffusion of research products

• Support team-based science and collaboration

• Allow better understanding of the research enterprise– Peer comparisons

– Strategic planning

– Emerging trends

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What is VIVO?

1. An open source semantic web application

2. An information model

3. An open community*

* A big, welcoming OS community! Let us know if you have questions or need information, connections, or

materials: http://vivoweb.org/contact

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Tying it all together

http://vivo.ufl.edu/display/n86607

Continue to represent typical profile information – absolutely!

Enhance profiles by incorporating meaningful outputs, as described by the Becker Model or other frameworks, to enhance their content and value

Can facilitate the dissemination of scholarship and more

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Tying it all together

http://blog.plumanalytics.com/post/57707501083/plumx-now-supports-vivo

PlumX supports VIVO

1. Aggregate information about our researchers

2. Harvest research outputs from the profile

3. Plum’s harvesting engine calculates metrics and provides both an analytics dashboard as well as visualizations.

4. Widgets can be embedded back into the VIVO profile!

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Going beyond counts: understanding impact Kristi Holmes

Tying it all together

http://blog.plumanalytics.com/post/57707501083/plumx-now-supports-vivo

PlumX supports VIVO

1. Aggregate information about our researchers

2. Harvest research outputs from the profile

3. Plum’s harvesting engine calculates metrics and provides both an analytics dashboard as well as visualizations.

4. Widgets can be embedded back into the VIVO profile!

http://vivo.ufl.edu/display/n86607

FigShare, lab notebooks, project outputs, code/data repositories SlideShare, etc.

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Acknowledgements

Funding:• Washington University Institute

of Clinical and Translational Sciences, NIH award UL1 RR024992

• VIVO - DuraSpace

Thanks:• Cathy Sarli, MLS, AHIP

• Karen Gutzman – NLM Fellow

• Jae Allen

• Washington University ICTS and WU ICTS Tracking & Evaluation Team

• Andrea Michalek at Plum @amichalek

• VIVO Community @VIVOcollab

• Becker Medical Library