Policy documents as sources for measuring societal impact: how often is climate change research mentioned in policy-related documents?

In the current UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), societal impact measurements are inherent parts of the national evaluation systems. In this study, we deal with a relatively new form of societal impact measurements. Recently, Altmetric—a start...

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Vydané v:Scientometrics Ročník 109; číslo 3; s. 1477 - 1495
Hlavní autori: Bornmann, Lutz, Haunschild, Robin, Marx, Werner
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.01.2016
Springer Nature B.V
Springer Netherlands
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Academic publications
Climate
Climate change
Climate change research
Computer Science
Data
Datasets
Documents
Economic geography
Environmental policy
Environmental science
Geography
Information Storage and Retrieval
Informetrics
Library Science
Measurement
Policy making
Social impact
Systems analysis
Usefulness
Policy documents
Climate change
Altmetrics
ISSN:0138-9130, 1588-2861
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Shrnutí:In the current UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) and the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), societal impact measurements are inherent parts of the national evaluation systems. In this study, we deal with a relatively new form of societal impact measurements. Recently, Altmetric—a start-up providing publication level metrics—started to make data for publications available which have been mentioned in policy documents. We regard this data source as an interesting possibility to specifically measure the (societal) impact of research. Using a comprehensive dataset with publications on climate change as an example, we study the usefulness of the new data source for impact measurement. Only 1.2 % ( n  = 2341) out of 191,276 publications on climate change in the dataset have at least one policy mention. We further reveal that papers published in Nature and Science as well as from the areas “Earth and related environmental sciences” and “Social and economic geography” are especially relevant in the policy context. Given the low coverage of the climate change literature in policy documents, this study can be only a first attempt to study this new source of altmetrics data. Further empirical studies are necessary, because mentions in policy documents are of special interest in the use of altmetrics data for measuring target-oriented the broader impact of research.
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ISSN:0138-9130
1588-2861
DOI:10.1007/s11192-016-2115-y