Research impact can be defined in the context of sports performance and physiology as the contribution to both the research/academic (knowledge discovery) and sporting (real-world application) communities. Practical application has always been a hallmark of the International Journal of Sports
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community is lacking an empirical account of what practitioners believe to have been the most impactful scholarly writings to their applied practice. Measuring research impact has been a trending topic for the past few decades, particularly in higher education institutions. Although a full explanation of
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professor employed. 7 As a footnote, many talented sport scientists working in universities have made the decision to end research focused on elite sport to improve research impact, citations, and job security. As the industry of sport science transitions into smaller collaborative teams of specialists
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( Gould, 2016 ). Providing more funding opportunities for knowledge translation research could help address this structural issue, as could recognizing the impact of research beyond traditional academic publishing measures. For instance, Research Impact Canada ( http://researchimpact.ca/ ; Martindale
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. PubMed ID: 27265062 doi:10.1080/17437199.2016.1198240 Reed , M.S. ( 2016 ). Chapter 1: Introduction . In The research impact handbook (pp. 1 – 14 ). Huntly, UK : Fast Track Impact . Rimmer , J.H. , Wang , E. , & Smith , D. ( 2008 ). Barriers associated with exercise and community access
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on the health and well-being of individuals with an ID, (b) to examine what is known about the impact of the pandemic on physical activity of individuals with an ID, (c) to describe Special Olympics program responses during the pandemic, and (d) to recommend areas for future research. Impact on
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. Sparkes and Smith ( 2014 ) note that shifting contexts implicit in qualitative research impact quality and transferability. Thus, the reader makes the decision of transferability based on the degree of similarity between the contexts ( Lincoln & Guba, 1985 ). Use of probing during the interviews and
