Research Impact Quotient (ResearchIQ) is a model for a web-based app that allows research organizations to see the impact of their grant projects in academic, traditional media, and social media spheres. Partnering with the National Geographic Society, the group used a sample of grant projects funded by the society to design how to mine data from online sources and collate it into a score for each of the three spheres. The tool is designed to reflect the impact measurement needs of research funders such as National Geographic, which would like to better see how the work of their grantees has an impact in the world. ResearchIQ is concerned with how an institution’s research identity is projected into academic and societal ways of thinking about the world. The project developed a model of the tool and explored a range of different ways to capture impact measurements from online data.

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