A geo-spatial and bibliometric analysis of impact assessment in Canada

Research objectives

This research tool (in progress of development) is will use webpage (open-access information on university webpages) to generate a basic geo-spatial map ‘picturing’ who, where, and what IA expertise exists in Canada, and how it is represented in difference academic fields from bio-physical, engineering and also social sciences and humanities scholarship. 

This will be augmented by further use of bibliometric methods establishing network maps of scholars and scholarly interests related to IA in Canada.

More specifically, we seek to 1) analyze the distribution of IA scholarship across individuals, organizations, geographical location and disciplines; 2) visualize the networks of actors and topics in IA scholarship; andl 3) a further analysis will describe how those distributions and networks evolved in the last decades.