This debate around who ultimately should be responsible for tracking impact (researchers or funders) is a major challenge of research impact evaluation.
It was accepted for tracking impact factors by ISI starting with the first published paper, a fate normally given only to publishers such as Cell, Nature and Science series.
Through the use of large-scale program performance data across multiple countries, these papers carefully develop original applications of the DALYs averted metric, tracking impact of a single program, and comparing programs across widely different settings.
Gratitude quickly turned to outrage when parents realized not a single federal, state, or city agency evaluated or tracked impacts on 3,000 children who returned to facilities filled with toxic dust and fumes.
This study indicates that verbal autopsy has the potential to provide cost-effective information to guide policy, set priorities and track impacts.
Epidemiology can help quantify the differential direct and indirect impact of conflict on particular populations, while trend data can track impacts over time, enabling researchers to map health outcomes against major offensives; peacekeeping operations; humanitarian assistance flows; and peace agreements.
Following the success of our Action Day event last year we have continued to track impact.
With an estimated 186 km of track impacted (Table 6), this equates to approximately 355,000 JPY (4,600 USD) per km.
The track impact factor was estimated from the measured dynamic wheel load, and the empirical dynamic wheel load was calculated using the measured track impact factor at each site.
The measured track impact factors were used for simulating the dynamic wheel loads applied on the derived time history function for fast trains.
