A response to Hansson and Polk (2018) “Assessing the impact of transdisciplinary research: The usefulness of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact”
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Post-publication record
- Nature
- Retraction
- Reason
- Date of Article and/or Notice Unknown;Notice - Limited or No Information;Retract and Replace;
- Date
- 7/25/2018 0:00
- Flagged by OpenAlex?
- Yes
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Abstract
aim to assess the usefulness of the concepts of relevance, credibility, and legitimacy for understanding the link between process and impact in transdisciplinary (TD) research. However, the article misrepresents some of the ideas in the two main reference articles. It also uses definitions of the concepts it aims to test that are inconsistent with the definitions offered by the reference papers. The methods description is insufficient to know what data were collected or how they were analyzed. More importantly, the effort to understand relationships between process and impact in TD research needs more careful definitions of the concepts outcome and impact as well as more objective ways to assess outcomes and impacts. This letter discusses shortcomings in the article and makes suggestions to improve conceptual clarity and methods for empirically assessing TD research effectiveness.
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The record
- Venue
- Research Evaluation
- Topic
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Field
- Decision Sciences
- Canadian institutions
- Royal Roads University
- Funders
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaCanada Research Chairs
- Keywords
- POLKCredibilityLegitimacyRelevance (law)TrustworthinessPolitical scienceRegional scienceSociologyGeographyPsychologySocial psychologyLawArchaeologyPolitics
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes