Adam Jaffe in "Nature" on Academic Return

May 5, 2016

A broader understanding of 'impact' could help governments to measure the diverse benefits of their investment in research. This article in Nature 533, S20–S21 by Michael Eisenstein quote Adam Jaffe extensively on the science of science impact...

Disentangling causation from correlation remains difficult. “You can look at the impact on particular researchers who were funded compared to those who weren't,” says Jaffe, “but that's not quite the same as asking how a world that has a 'war on cancer' differs from one that doesn't.”