Measuring Research Capacity: Development of the PACER Tool

作者：Stephen K Stacey, Melanie Steiner-Sherwood, Paul Crawford, Joseph W. LeMaster, Catherine A. McCarty, Tanvir Turin Chowdhury, Amanda Weidner, Peter H. Seidenberg · 发表于：The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.3122/jabfm.2024.240085r1 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：scientometrics and bibliometrics research、Health and Medical Research Impacts

Evaluating research activity in research departments and education programs is conventionally accomplished through measurement of research funding or bibliometrics. This limited perspective of research activity restricts a more comprehensive evaluation of a program's actual research capacity, ultimately hindering efforts to enhance and expand it. The objective of this study was to conduct a scoping review of the existing literature pertaining to the measurement of research productivity in research institutions. Using these findings, the study aimed to create a standardized research measurement tool, the Productivity And Capacity Evaluation in Research (PACER) Tool. The evidence review identified 726 relevant articles in a literature search of PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, ERIC, CINAHL, and Google Scholar with the keywords "research capacity" and "research productivity." Thirty-nine English-language studies applicable to research measurement were assessed in full and 20 were included in the data extraction. Capacity/productivity metrics were identified, and the relevance of each metric was data-charted according to 3 criteria: the metric was objective, organizational in scale, and applicable to varied research domains. This produced 42 research capacity/productivity metrics that fell into 7 relevant categories: bibliometrics, impact, ongoing research, collaboration activities, funding, personnel, and education/academics. With the expertise of a Delphi panel of researchers, r...