Table 5.

Factors influencing impactful research.

Variable nameDescription
Number of case studiesNumber of impact case studies submitted by each institution.
Average number of outputs Average number of underpinning research output listed to support each constitutional impact case study.
Percentage of journals Percentage of the underpinning research outputs represented by journal articles
Average ABS scoreAverage Association of Business School 2012 (ABS2010) Quality Guide ranking of each journal in which underpinning research was published
Average listed grant (£k)Average listed grant amounts for each institutional impact case study
Average number of key researchers/ Number of researchersAverage number of key researchers for each institutional impact case study
Average longest time in post (years)Average length of service for longest serving key researcher for each institutional impact case study (i.e. the length of time a key researcher has been working in the institution prior to REF2014)
Percentage of women key researchersPercentage of women key researchers for each institutional impact case study
Average percentage public of public interaction Percentage of an institution’s case studies stemming from primary interaction with public and non-profit organisations
Average percentage national reach Percentage of national reach which represents the proportion of an institution’s case studies where the impact was generated within one country only
Sources: Kellard & Śliwa (2016) and Chowdhury et al. (2016) 

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