Developing international guidelines for an effective process of research impact assessment

Governments, funding agencies, and research organisations all over the world are now committed to measuring the impact of research beyond academic publications. Accordingly, a multidisciplinary practice called research impact assessment is rapidly developing. However, this practice remains in its formative stages and so no systematised recommendations or accepted standards to guide researchers and practitioners are currently available. Pavel Ovseiko, Paula Adam, Kathryn Graham, and Jonathan Grant introduce initial international guidelines for an effective process of research impact assessment and invite Impact Blog readers to put them into practice and share their experience, evidence, and cultural competence with the global community.