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One of the major criteria for NSF grant are “broader impacts” (likewise with other funding agencies). In recent years, Altmetrics and similar tools and indexes have been devised to measure impact beyond citations – e.g. social media or non-traditional citations/mentions. In terms of economics and decision making for the policy making in academic research, is seems reasonable that would be some measurement method, performance index, or framework to evaluate “broader impacts”. Can you provide any references to such methods, indexes, or frameworks?

By formal method I mean a broadly known, standard and as objective as possible. For example, one of the major criteria for NSF grant are “broader impacts” which is not hugely objective(likewise with other funding agencies). In recent years, Altmetrics and similar tools and indexes have been devised to measure informal citations and calling them "social impact" – e.g. social media or non-traditional citations/mentions. In terms of economics and decision making for the policy making in academic research, is seems reasonable that should be some measurement method, performance index, or framework to evaluate “broader impacts” of the work we report in scientific publications or can refer to. Can you provide any references to such methods, indexes, or frameworks?

One of the major criteria for NSF grant are "broader impacts" (likewise with other funding agencies). In recent years, Altmetrics and similar tools and indexes have been devised to measure impact beyond citations -- e.g. social media or non-traditional citations/mentions. In terms of economics and decision making for the policy making in academic research, is seems reasonable that would be some measurement method, performance index, or framework to evaluate "broader impacts". Can you provide any references to such methods, indexes, or frameworks?

One of the major criteria for NSF grant are “broader impacts” (likewise with other funding agencies). In recent years, Altmetrics and similar tools and indexes have been devised to measure impact beyond citations – e.g. social media or non-traditional citations/mentions. In terms of economics and decision making for the policy making in academic research, is seems reasonable that would be some measurement method, performance index, or framework to evaluate “broader impacts”. Can you provide any references to such methods, indexes, or frameworks?

one of major criteria for NSF grants among other grant agencies are "broader impact". in recent years Altmetrics and different tools and indexes are trying to measure social-media or non-traditional citations/mentions of different research in a way to contribute to this question. in terms of economics and decision making for the policy making in academic research industry there should be some measurement and index or framework to measure this impact. What are some of these sources?

One of the major criteria for NSF grant are "broader impacts" (likewise with other funding agencies). In recent years, Altmetrics and similar tools and indexes have been devised to measure impact beyond citations -- e.g. social media or non-traditional citations/mentions. In terms of economics and decision making for the policy making in academic research, is seems reasonable that would be some measurement method, performance index, or framework to evaluate "broader impacts". Can you provide any references to such methods, indexes, or frameworks?