The Impact of Impact

Interesting analysis of the 2014 REF results by my colleague Seb Oliver. Among other things, it shows that Physics was the subject in which “Impact had the greatest impact”..

Seb Boyd

The Impact of Impact

I wrote the following article to explore how Impact in the Research Excellence Framework 2014 (REF2014) affected the average scores of departments (and hence rankings). This produced a “league table” of how strongly impact affected different subjects. Some of the information in this article was used in a THE article by Paul Jump due to come out 00:00 on 19th Feb 2015. I’ve now also produced ranking tables for each UoA using the standardised weighting I advocate below (see Standardised Rankings).

UoA	Unit of Assessment	Effective Weight of GPA ranking in each sub-profile as %
Outputs	Impact	Envir.
9	Physics	37.9	38.6	23.5
23	Sociology	34.1	38.6	27.3
10	Mathematical Sciences	37.6	37.5	24.9
24	Anthropology and Development Studies	40.2	35.0	24.8
6	Agriculture, Veterinary and Food Science	42.0	33.0	25.0
31	Classics	43.3	32.6	24.0
16	Architecture, Built Environment and Planning	48.6	31.1	20.3

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