Review: Impact case studies submitted to REF 2014: The hidden impact of nursing research

摘要

The 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) produced a database of impact case studies and documented significant efforts by UK researchers to achieve impact. Determining impact is undoubtedly a new and complicated task and, as we see in the paper by Redman et al. (2015), one that is only in its initial stages. The need to make an effort to measure impact is real and urgent if we are to support researchers (and practitioners) to work effectively.