الملخص
Quantitative estimation of research societal and economic impact remains an ongoing issue. This is due to the difficulty to attribute specific economic or societal impact to particular research activity. Nevertheless, evaluating research impact is necessary to justify research spending especially for engineering research studies, as they are generally more costly than humanities or social studies for example. This work considered research impact evaluation in NSF (The National Science Foundation in the USA), EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK), and TRC (The Research Council in Oman) to propose a low-cost survey-based approach to evaluate the engineering research impact. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to all faculty staff at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) to assess their recent research impact in the years 2016 and 2017. The evaluation was carried at three levels; knowledge, societal, and economic impact. The results of the study were compared with an independent study produced by an international consultancy group. This study offers an important contribution to the subject of evaluating impact factors of engineering research in Oman.
الكلمات المفتاحية
بيانات النشر
- المعرّف الرقمي
- 10.53542/jass.v11i3.4476
- المجلة
- مجلة الآداب والعلوم الاجتماعية, 11(3), 5-16
- الناشر
- جامعة السلطان قابوس
- وصول مفتوح
- وصول مفتوح ذهبي
- الترخيص
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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APA 7
Zarog, M. (2025). A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research. Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 11(3), 5-16. https://doi.org/10.53542/jass.v11i3.4476
MLA 9
Zarog, Musaab. "A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 3, 2025, pp. 5-16. https://doi.org/10.53542/jass.v11i3.4476.
شيكاغو (المؤلف–التاريخ)
Zarog, Musaab. 2025. "A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 11 (3): 5-16. https://doi.org/10.53542/jass.v11i3.4476.
هارفارد
Zarog, M. (2025) 'A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research', Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 11(3), pp. 5-16. doi:10.53542/jass.v11i3.4476.
فانكوفر
Zarog M. A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research. Journal of Arts and Social Sciences. 2025;11(3):5-16. doi:10.53542/jass.v11i3.4476
IEEE
M. Zarog, "A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research A Pilot Study for Evaluating Economic and Societal Impact of Engineering Research," Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 5-16, 2025, doi: 10.53542/jass.v11i3.4476.