Academics undertaking public policy research are committed to tackling interesting questions driven by curiosity, but they generally also want their research to have an impact on government, service delivery, or public debate. Yet our ability to capture the impact of this research is limited because impact is under-theorised, and current systems of research impact evaluation do not allow for multiple or changing research goals. This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding, measuring, and encouraging research impact for those who seek to produce research that speaks to multiple audiences. The framework brings together message, medium, audience, engagement, impact, evaluation, and affordance within the logics of different fields. It sets out a new way of considering research goals, measurements, and incentives in an integrated way. By accounting for the logics of different fields, which encompass disciplinary, institutional, and intrinsic factors, the framework provides a new way of harnessing measurements and incentives towards fruitful learning about the contribution diverse types of public policy research can make to wider impact.

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理解、衡量和鼓励公共政策研究的影响

从事公共政策研究的学者致力于解决好奇心驱动的有趣问题，但他们通常也希望他们的研究对政府、服务提供或公共辩论产生影响。然而，我们捕捉这项研究影响的能力是有限的，因为影响理论不足，而且当前的研究影响评估系统不允许多个或不断变化的研究目标。本文开发了一个概念框架，用于理解、衡量和鼓励那些寻求进行面向多个受众的研究的人的研究影响。该框架将不同领域逻辑中的信息、媒体、受众、参与、影响、评估和可供性结合在一起。它提出了一种以综合方式考虑研究目标、衡量标准和激励措施的新方法。