The phrase "an effort to quantify" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing attempts to measure or express something in numerical terms.
Example: "The researchers conducted an effort to quantify the impact of climate change on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "an attempt to measure" or "a strive to assess".
Researchers at Boston University, meanwhile, have set up a Picarro analyzer in an effort to quantify Boston's carbon footprint.
In an effort to quantify structure ignition mechanisms during wildland urban interface (WUI) fires, rapidly deployable instrumentation packages were developed.
A considerable amount of work has been carried out by the various standards groups in an effort to quantify and specify protocols to support QoS in wireless environments.
The present paper is an effort to quantify the 28-day cementitious efficiency of ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) in concrete at the various replacement levels.
The present paper is an effort to quantify the influence of Algerian slag on the properties of fresh and hardened self-compacting concrete.
In an effort to quantify changes the bank compared aspects of its World Governance Indicators, which are produced each year by aggregating information from scores of organisations, such as Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Researchers and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using metrics (from bibliometrics to patent counts), which are core instruments of a longstanding effort to quantify scientific productivity and worth.
In a rare effort to quantify the impact of restrictions to humanitarian access, the South Sudan NGO forum, a coordinating body of more than 300 international and local NGOs, recently distributed a statement to journalists estimating that in the first six months of 2015, $3.5m of humanitarian assets were lost and 1,560 working days wasted due to conflict and suspension of activities.
There hasn't been a major effort to quantify the militarization trend since Kraska's studies in the late 1990s.
A recent effort to quantify the effect of genetic variation on gene expression found that SNPs and CNVs contribute 83.6% and 17.7% of the total variation found [16].
