An ongoing collection of links and references:

Associations and organisations

• Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA, UK)
• And ARMA response to the New Zealand consultation on impact
• CASRAI
• Research Impact (Canada)

REF

• REF 2021 Initial Decisions document (released 1/9/2017)
• Evidence used in REF 2014 – Digital Science and Vertigo Ventures analysis
• REF 2014 results – see REF results by Unit of Assessment and Institution
• REF Impact case study searchable database – search through the 2014 submissions
• “The nature, scale and beneficiaries of research impact” – KCL and Digital science REF impact analysis
• “How much was an impact case study worth in the last REF?” – post by Mark Reed (Fast Track Impact) and Simon Kerridge (University of Kent)
• Increasing the weighting of impact – analysis by Prof Steve McKay on the implications of increasing from 20-25%

Impact tools and good practice

• Responsible metrics
• Responsible metrics and REF2021 – considerations
• INVOLVE – public and patient involvement
• LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog, including mine(!):
  • Planning impact at the funding stage 
  • Building an impact capture system
  • A call to build an impact literate research culture

• ESRC Impact Toolkit

Other great stuff

• Unpaywall: Add this awesome tool to Google Chrome to search instantly for Green OA versions of articles!