(14 Feb 2024) n collaboration with more than 30 industry organisations, Silverchair and Oxford University Press (OUP) have launched Sensus Impact – an initiative to enhance reporting and demonstrate the impact of research supported by funders. By connecting the academic community with a range of insightful metrics in one place, Sensus Impact aims to help address the industry-wide challenge of fragmented measurement and reporting.
At the initiative’s core is a new platform that collates and centralises a range of metrics about the impact of research, including citation, usage, and attention data. This combination of high-quality data from sources, such as Altmetric, will provide funders with unique insight into the performance of the research they fund. In turn, this further enables them to measure and evaluate its impact following publication in academic journals.
Sensus Impact is supported by an engaged Community of Practice, including representatives from publishers, funders, and learned societies. This community will continue to play a key role in shaping the initiative, by actively identifying opportunities for additional data visualizations, data points, and functionalities, ensuring that the platform is built by and for the academic community.
Sensus Impact is live with 18 funder hubs, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Smithsonian Institute.
The announcement is here.
