Summary information

Study title

Data for: When academic impact is not enough: A concept mapping study characterizing excellence in practice-based research

Creator

von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrica (The School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University)
Hedberg Rundgren, Emma (Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet)
Uvhagen, Håkan (Research and Development Unit for Elderly Persons , Stockholm Health Care Services)
Hedberg Rundgren, Åsa (Stockholm Gerontology Research Center Foundation)

Study number / PID

2024-464-1 (SND)

https://doi.org/10.48723/at5e-gm73 (DOI)

Data access

Open

Series

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Abstract

The data was collected during a research project investigating the conceptualization of research quality in the context of health and welfare research. Research quality is often discussed in terms of excellence, emphasizing replicability and trustworthiness. Practice-based research instead emphasis implementability and practical impact, and thus, may reflect other values and logics and challenge how high-quality practice-based research is defined. The aim of this study is to explore what characterizes excellent practice-based research. The data was collected using the Group Concept Mapping methodology. Four data collection activities were used to collect the data: brainstorming, sorting, rating of importance, and rating of experience. 48 participants participated in the brainstorming session to generate the list of statements. 22 participants participated in the sorting activity which generated the similarity matrix. 13 participants rated the statements based on importance and 10 based on experience. All participants were affiliated with or employed at a local or regional Research and development (R&D) organization and engaged in health and welfare research in Sweden in different ways. The material consists of four data files: 1) List_of_statements.csv: List of statements from the brainstorming activity 2) Similarity_matrix1724400634.csv: Similarity matrix from the sorting activity. The similarity matrix show how many times each statement was sorted together with all other statements. This data-file was used as input for the multidimensional scaling. 3) Raw_rating_report_importance_1724400874.csv: Rating data for the importance rating. This data show how important each participant rated each statement on a 5-point scale. The scale ranged from 1=unimportant, to 5=very important. When data is missing, the corresponding cell has been left blank. 4) Raw_rating_report_experience_1724400881.csv: Rating data for the experience rating. This data show how much...
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Methodology

Data collection period

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Country

Sweden

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

All participants were affiliated with or employed at a local or regional Research and development (R&D) organization and engaged in health and welfare research in Sweden in different ways. R&D units are examples of knowledge-broker agencies that are embedded in practice organizations but with staff often retaining affiliations to academic institutions, commissioned to conduct field research and development activities that support knowledge development and use in practice. Thus, they are operating in a context that are exposed both to traditional excellence criteria and expectations to conduct practice-based research.

Sampling procedure

This study was conducted in collaboration with R&D Welfare, a Swedish national organization for Research & Development professionals. Participants were invited independently to each of the activities in the concept mapping process using R&D Welfare’s mailing list, reaching about 350 recipients, social media, and their network meetings. Each invitation included written and/or oral information about the aim of the project, what participation in the relevant activity entailed, information about data management, and the fact that participation was voluntary.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

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Access

Publisher

Swedish National Data Service

Publication year

2024

Terms of data access

Access to data through SND. Data are freely accessible.

Related publications

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