Research impact evidence

Improvements in health through new therapeutics, diagnostics, disease prevention or changes in behaviour; or improvements in disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, management of health problems, health policy, health systems, and quality of life.
National Health and Medical Research Council

Are any of your publications mentioned in policy documents?

Search for policies that have mentioned your publications via Altmetric or PlumX.
Make sure to follow through to the policy document to see where it is from and what it is about.

Are any guidelines citing your work?

Look through the publications citing your work to see if any are guideline documents.

Do you have engagement with collaborators or partners who translate the co-created research into their daily practice?

For example, co-authorship with government department researchers, hospital researchers or clinicians.

Evidence of collaboration with government or health may be sourced from the InCites database.

Do you have publications in outlets that are not 'scholarly' but reach audiences such as clinicians, practitioners or the general public?

For example, The Conversation.

Use available readership metrics or analytics (e.g. where the readers are located) to show distribution or uptake.

Are there any news stories or media reports on health benefits arising from your research?

• Look at the Altmetric Attention to your publication and click the News tab.
• Try searching for your research output in Google News to see if it is appearing in any media.
• Tip: search the title in inverted commas (e.g. "Wearable cardioverter-defibrillator after myocardial infarction") or by Digital Object Identifier (DOI 10.1136/bmj.k3786)