Abstract
Over the last decade, growing emphasis has been placed on research funding and performing organisations to effectively demonstrate how their use of public and donated funds benefits the research ecosystem and wider society. Focus on greater accountability, transparency, and adding value has necessitated that research organisations develop and optimise robust methods and approaches to evaluating the outcomes and impacts of their research programmes, fellowships, and other types of funding investments. Moreover, there is emphasis on improving how research data is collected, used and reported, and that the methods used capture a broad and accurate picture of outcomes and impacts from funding. Several reviews of models and applications for research evaluations exist, but these are either limited to health research, provide an overview of approaches, or only capture research impact assessments. A broader scoping review of methods and approaches to evidencing both outcomes and impacts from different types of research investments is now needed and should include critical analysis of the available frameworks and methods, and the types of outcomes and impacts these can measure.
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