Epistemological, Artefactual and Interactional–Institutional Foundations of Social Impact of Academic Research

Miettinen, Reijo; Tuunainen, Juha; Esko, Terhi

doi:10.1007/s11024-015-9278-1

Cited by 27 publications

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“…2, we refer to Wilsdon et al (2015) who highlight only two quantitative indicators which can be used for the societal impact measurement: Google patent citations (for measuring innovation in industry) and clinical guideline citations (for measuring the impact of biomedical research on clinical practice). However, further indicators are necessary which allow targeting the three institutional foundations of impact: (1) epistemological (better understanding of phenomena behind different kinds of societal problems), (2) artefactual (development of technological artefacts and instruments), and (3) interactional (organizational forms of partnerships between researchers and different kinds of societal actors) (Miettinen et al 2015). …”

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confidence: 99%

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

2016

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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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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2016

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“…Lehenkari & Miettinen, 2002;Miettinen, Tuunainen & Esko, 2015). In what ways does this affect the concept of 'transformative agency' and why should we contradict to some of his system theoretical arguments?…”

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Methodological challenges of investigating in-tellectual cooperation, relational expertise, and transformative agency

Langemeyer

2017

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Methodological issues arise with the research of societal practices of 'knowing'. This object of study is understood as concrete human activity that always integrates mental, communicative and practical behaviour in interaction and cooperation with others. Especially with regard to contemporary forms of labour in the high-tech-world, this issue has become a salient task. As it is explained, it implies investigation of people communicating and reasoning while developing concrete forms of activity. In particular, the methodological issues concern the social and psychodynamic quality of this practice. Within the tradition of cultural-historical research and activity theory, milestones of this matter have already been reached. Cultural-historical concepts like the 'motive' of an activity as well as the 'emotions' that bias the 'experience' of 'transformative engagements' with the world show that their theoretical and methodological understanding are adept to approach the dialectics between the social and the individual quality of practice and agency in general, but also with regard to contemporary challenges of intellectualized cooperation in particular. 'Double stimulation', a concept coined by Vygotsky, is relevant in this context as well. However, the paper discusses critically whether it fits with the system theoretical understanding of activities and transformative agency as it can be found in Engeström's writings. Finally, the core requirements for a VET-research methodology for intellectualized collaboration are resumed.

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“…Let us follow the use of "impact pathways" to describe this heterogeneity. Miettinen et al (2015) develop the epistemic rationale for such a multiplicity, arguing that "science (is) a heterogeneous social activity where different disciplines possess dissimilar methodologies, ontologies and forms of interaction with society" (Miettinen et al 2015, p. 258). Research in political science is different from research in oncology not only because their scientific foundations, methods, objects and cognitive styles are different, but also because they talk to different user groups.…”

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Impact for whom? Mapping the users of public research with lexicon-based text mining

2020

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We contribute to the debate on societal impact of SSH by developing a methodology that allows a fine-grained observation of social groups that make use, directly or indirectly, of the results of research. We develop a lexicon of users with 76,857 entries, which saturates the semantic field of social groups of users and allows normalization. We use the lexicon in order to filter text structures in the 6637 impact case studies collected under the Research Excellence Framework in the UK. We then follow the steps recommended by Börner et al. (Annu Rev Inf Sci Technol 37:179–255, 2003) to build up visual maps of science, using co-occurrence of words describing users of research. We explore the properties of this novel kind of maps, in which science is seen from the perspective of research users.

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Epistemological, Artefactual and Interactional–Institutional Foundations of Social Impact of Academic Research

Cited by 27 publications

References 40 publications

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

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

Methodological challenges of investigating in-tellectual cooperation, relational expertise, and transformative agency

Impact for whom? Mapping the users of public research with lexicon-based text mining

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