Categorisation of citations to trace the translation and impact of biomedical research

对引文进行分类，以追踪生物医学研究的翻译和影响

• 批准号: G0802314/1
• 负责人: Steve Hanney
• 金额: $ 19.52万
• 依托单位: Brunel University London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=G0802314%2F1
• 关键词: Categorisation; citations; trace; translation; impact

The importance of assessing the wider impact of biomedical research in terms of improved health is increasingly being recognised by research funding bodies. Such studies are used to account to tax payers for the money spent. They are also used, for example by medical research charities such as the Arthritis Research Campaign, in an attempt to understand how to organise research so as to enhance the benefits and thus lead to further improvements in health. But there are considerable practical problems in conducting such studies. Traditional approaches, involving researchers considering the work of their colleagues, play an important role in the evaluation of research quality. But they often play a more limited part in assessment of impacts such as how research is eventually translated into improved clinical practice. Considerable progress is made using newer approaches that involve conducting interviews with researchers and others to assess wider impacts of particular pieces of biomedical research. These studies are, however, resource-intensive to conduct and tend to be even more difficult to undertake in relation to basic biomedical research conducted in laboratories than on clinical research conducted in hospitals or the community. A recent report recommended further work to develop evaluation methods. One approach sometimes used is to count the number of times other researchers refer to, or cite, a researcher?s article in their own research. This is known as citation analysis. How far such simple citation counts provide adequate measures of research quality is contested, but it is widely agreed that such counts do not provide adequate assessments of wider impacts from research.We propose, however, to examine how a new approach to citation analysis could be used in tracing the impact of biomedical research and in illuminating the processes involved in the translation of research into eventual impact on clinical practice. To do this we propose a two phase approach. First, we propose to develop a method by which we shall be able to categorise citations and identify those that show that previous research has been important to a subsequent piece of research. Second, we propose to pilot the use of that method to trace the impact made by an original piece of research on a series of later pieces of research. By tracing the impact through such a series of papers we hope we might show how the original research eventually contributed to improved clinical care and improvements in health.

越来越多的研究资助机构认识到评估生物医学研究在改善健康方面的更广泛影响的重要性。这样的研究被用来向纳税人说明所花的钱。例如，医学研究慈善机构，如关节炎研究运动，也在使用它们，试图了解如何组织研究，以提高效益，从而进一步改善健康。但在进行此类研究时存在相当大的实际问题。传统的方法是研究人员考虑其同事的工作，在评估研究质量方面发挥着重要作用。但是，在评估诸如研究最终如何转化为改善的临床实践等影响方面，它们往往发挥的作用更为有限。采用更新的方法，包括与研究人员和其他人员进行访谈，以评估特定生物医学研究的更广泛影响，取得了相当大的进展。然而，进行这些研究需要大量资源，而且与在实验室进行的基础生物医学研究相比，在医院或社区进行的临床研究往往更难进行。最近的一份报告建议进一步开展工作，制定评价方法。有时使用的一种方法是计算其他研究人员提及或引用某位研究人员的次数。在他们自己的研究文章。这就是引文分析。这种简单的引用计数在多大程度上提供了研究质量的适当衡量是有争议的，但人们普遍认为，这种计数不能提供对研究更广泛影响的充分评估。然而，我们建议研究一种新的引文分析方法如何用于追踪生物医学研究的影响，并阐明将研究转化为对临床实践的最终影响所涉及的过程。为了做到这一点，我们提出了两个阶段的方法。首先，我们建议开发一种方法，通过这种方法，我们将能够对引用进行分类，并识别那些表明以前的研究对后续研究很重要的引用。其次，我们建议试点使用这种方法来追踪一项原始研究对一系列后续研究的影响。通过追踪这一系列论文的影响，我们希望我们可以展示最初的研究如何最终促进了临床护理和健康的改善。