Dimensions of Research Impact: A Sys-tematic Review

Scientific institutes repeatedly emphasize that strategies shall be implemented for recognition of research impact. The important problem is how we can evaluate the impact of research with logical and recurrent planning. The purpose of this research is recognition of different dimensions of research impact.

The present study was conducted through systematic review in eight steps: assigning topics to the reviews, determining the inclusion/exclusion criteria, syntax control (using the tools available in the database and related standard keywords), locating studies (on Web of Science, Scopus, Lisa, Ovid, Proqest, Ebsco and Persian language database of Ganj, SID, Magiran, Noormags), selecting studies (28722 articles abstracts), assessing study quality (in this stage, after designing a quality evaluation tools, the resources extracted by two researchers were independently studied and scored (112 relevant papers), extracting data, and finally, the analysis and presentation of the results.

The research results showed ten different dimensions: Academic, Altmetrics, Healthcare, Economy, Security and defense, Social, Culture, Ecology, Policy, and Services. Among them, the most emphasis was on economic, social and health dimensions, with the least emphasis on services, and security and defense.

Ten effective dimensions Identified in this study are used to ensure the effectiveness of research and can be used in the form of an effective research evaluation system.