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Moreover, it should be kept in mind that an obvious limitation of any attempt to develop and use either direct or proxy impact indicators for high-stakes assessments of research is that their robustness as indicators is threatened once they become targets and benchmarks for performance (Goodhart's law).
As a first step towards conducting studies in the elderly on this topic, we aimed to develop and validate a simple questionnaire to identify the occurrence of faecal impaction in the elderly and to assess the extent to which a subject's cognitive impairment, and the aid of a proxy, impact on its reliability.
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These methods quantify the policy changes on the environment using environmental indicators that represent a proxy of impact on the environment (Primdahl et al., [2010]; Chiron et al., [2013]) or by developing bio-economic models that jointly simulate the agents in an analysis of the impact on the environment and on space (Louhichi et al., [2010]).
But it will never achieve that aim if scale is allowed to be a proxy for impact.
These findings support the Newton hypothesis and call into question the Ortega hypothesis (given our usage of citation counts as a proxy for impact).
These findings support the Newton hypothesis and call into question the Ortega and Ecclesiastes hypotheses (given our usage of citation counts as a proxy for impact).
Thus, with sufficiently large numbers (e.g., a group of researchers as a whole over a longer period of time) citation frequency can be assumed as a proxy for impact [17].
For this reason, the measure of research output is often used as a proxy for impact.
Career progression is enormously influenced by citation metrics as a proxy for impact and, more than anything else, this keeps us tied to a paper publication model.
An assumption is made that the fact that a research article is cited in a clinical guideline is a proxy for potential impact; however, this impact is not proven in this study.
stroke, myocardial infarction, cirrhosis and chronic liver diseases as a proxy of the impact of primary preventive interventions [ 17- 20], cervical cancer and mastectomy as an indicator of the impact of both primary and secondary preventive initiatives [ 21], appendectomy for the assessment of the risk for surgical inappropriateness [ 21, 22].
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