More about Knowledge Exchange
Defining knowledge exchange
Canada’s national funding agencies, CIHR, SSHRC, and NSERC, as well as other funding agencies are emphasizing and in some cases requiring as part of funding applications, rich knowledge mobilization and translation plans highlighting who engages within research, what are the research outputs and outcomes, who benefits from these outputs and outcomes, and what impact is made by the research.
Defining impact
Impact is the effect, change or benefit of research on the economy, society, culture, academia, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life. Traditional academic impact measures include the h-index, citation counts, and publication counts. We believe academic impact can be broadened to include measures of overall publication impact, publication depth and breadth, citation depth and breadth, and geographical spread of citations.
Additional resources
Below, you will find some literature relevant to knowledge translation and impact.
- Knowledge translation of research findings
- Integrated knowledge translation: digging deeper,moving forward
- Methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of knowledge translation interventions
- Research, public policymaking, and knowledge-translation processes
- Increasing research visibility to maximize impact
- Assessment, evaluations, and definitions of research impact
