Tools and Metrics for Comprehensive Impact
Research Excellence Framework (UK)
ResearchFish (UK)
ResearchFish is a tool used by many funding bodies in the UK as a way to track outputs and impacts of scientific work. ResearchFish is used almost universally by all public funding bodies in the UK. ResearchFish primarily a data collection tool into which the scientific investigators enter data about their work and corresponding outputs via a fine-grained question set. This information is fed back to the funding bodies. It is based on early work within the RAND group led by Dr Steven Wooding.
In their recent report (mirror), the authors describe their definition of Impact as being the same as that of REF's.
They use the word output to describe both academic and wider (or comprehensive) impacts of research
Figure 1 From "Researchfish: A forward look." Hinrichs, Saba, Erin Montague, and Jonathan Grant (2015).