{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1593436627","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12032","title":"Introducing \u201cImpact Validity\u201d","display_name":"Introducing \u201cImpact Validity\u201d","publication_year":2013,"publication_date":"2013-12-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W1593436627","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12032","mag":"1593436627"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1111/josi.12032","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12032","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12032","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S168863142","display_name":"Journal of Social Issues","issn_l":"0022-4537","issn":["0022-4537","1540-4560"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a","anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-b","erih-plus","jufo-2","ki-jl-1","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320595","host_organization_name":"Wiley","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320595"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Wiley"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Journal of Social Issues","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5077029541","display_name":"Sean G. Massey","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5984-7116","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5984-7116"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I123946342","display_name":"Binghamton University","ror":"https://ror.org/008rmbt77","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I123946342"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Sean G. Massey","raw_affiliation_strings":["Binghamton University, SUNY"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Binghamton University, SUNY","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I123946342"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5010374087","display_name":"Ricardo E. Barreras","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Ricardo E. Barreras","raw_affiliation_strings":["Independent Researcher"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Independent Researcher","institution_ids":[]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":1,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5077029541"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I123946342"],"apc_list":{"value":3570,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3570},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":26.3611,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":67,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.99387927,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"69","issue":"4","first_page":"615","last_page":"632"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13765","display_name":"Social Science and Policy Research","score":0.9907000064849854,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13765","display_name":"Social Science and Policy Research","score":0.9907000064849854,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14289","display_name":"Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture","score":0.0032999999821186066,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3314","display_name":"Anthropology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12231","display_name":"Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice","score":0.0010999999940395355,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/study-design","display_name":"research design","score":0.5659999847412109},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/research-questions","display_name":"research questions","score":0.4729999899864197},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/research-dissemination","display_name":"research dissemination","score":0.8410000205039978},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/methodological-quality","display_name":"methodological quality","score":0.6669999957084656}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C169087156","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2131593","display_name":"Framing (construction)","level":2,"score":0.6930201053619385},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C174106493","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1057880","display_name":"External validity","level":2,"score":0.6830873489379883},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C539667460","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2414942","display_name":"Management science","level":1,"score":0.49901771545410156},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C51082289","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4113800","display_name":"Internal validity","level":2,"score":0.48178741335868835},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C94625758","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7163","display_name":"Politics","level":2,"score":0.41980475187301636},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C15744967","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9418","display_name":"Psychology","level":0,"score":0.3903501033782959},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C77805123","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q161272","display_name":"Social psychology","level":1,"score":0.28569161891937256},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.26790785789489746},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.12814399600028992},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C71924100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190","display_name":"Medicine","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142724271","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7208","display_name":"Pathology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C66938386","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q633538","display_name":"Structural engineering","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1111/josi.12032","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12032","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12032","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S168863142","display_name":"Journal of Social Issues","issn_l":"0022-4537","issn":["0022-4537","1540-4560"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["abdc-a","anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-b","erih-plus","jufo-2","ki-jl-1","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320595","host_organization_name":"Wiley","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320595"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Wiley"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Journal of Social Issues","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":40,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W128070412","https://openalex.org/W572136678","https://openalex.org/W607275408","https://openalex.org/W631469306","https://openalex.org/W636814224","https://openalex.org/W1493667353","https://openalex.org/W1547499401","https://openalex.org/W1555656179","https://openalex.org/W1562543675","https://openalex.org/W1821254805","https://openalex.org/W1847008116","https://openalex.org/W1894633630","https://openalex.org/W1902297716","https://openalex.org/W1980313123","https://openalex.org/W1980363060","https://openalex.org/W1988586386","https://openalex.org/W2001213794","https://openalex.org/W2002856643","https://openalex.org/W2003958813","https://openalex.org/W2020053274","https://openalex.org/W2040389839","https://openalex.org/W2049645673","https://openalex.org/W2051579893","https://openalex.org/W2053122258","https://openalex.org/W2055054516","https://openalex.org/W2067525094","https://openalex.org/W2090547531","https://openalex.org/W2104243058","https://openalex.org/W2105286617","https://openalex.org/W2114998944","https://openalex.org/W2125770929","https://openalex.org/W2160968992","https://openalex.org/W2312667940","https://openalex.org/W2322291367","https://openalex.org/W2898481308","https://openalex.org/W3128299043","https://openalex.org/W4232565434","https://openalex.org/W4255015747","https://openalex.org/W4255259958","https://openalex.org/W4300192386"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1916855246","https://openalex.org/W7221784234","https://openalex.org/W2602174014","https://openalex.org/W4410593812","https://openalex.org/W4282029887","https://openalex.org/W4389989785","https://openalex.org/W7165126190","https://openalex.org/W4390961751","https://openalex.org/W764282745","https://openalex.org/W7140105590"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"article":[1],"introduces":[2],"and":[3,27,88,93,106,143,149,154],"explores":[4],"the":[5,13,19,44,60,71,86,94,135,150],"concept":[6],"impact":[7,41,91,98,133],"validity,":[8],"which":[9,16],"is":[10,31,66,123],"conceptualized":[11],"as":[12,33,100],"extent":[14],"to":[15,21,54,69],"research":[17,48,139],"has":[18],"potential":[20],"play":[22],"a":[23,34,47,102,107,112],"role":[24],"in":[25,43,52],"social":[26,81,115],"political":[28],"change":[29],"or":[30,38],"useful":[32,108],"tool":[35,109],"for":[36,58,110,131,146],"advocacy":[37],"activism.":[39],"Including":[40],"validity":[42,92,99],"design":[45],"of":[46,63,90,138,156],"project":[49],"means":[50],"that,":[51],"addition":[53],"considering":[55],"traditional":[56],"criteria":[57],"determining":[59],"methodological":[61],"rigor":[62],"research,":[64,148],"it":[65],"also":[67,124],"critical":[68],"consider":[70],"many":[72],"related":[73],"decisions":[74],"that":[75,96,126],"researchers":[76],"make":[77],"when":[78],"working":[79],"toward":[80],"change.":[82],"In":[83],"this":[84],"article,":[85],"theory":[87],"methodology":[89],"assumptions":[95],"position":[97],"both":[101],"valid":[103],"scientific":[104],"approach,":[105],"promoting":[111],"more":[113],"engaged":[114],"science,":[116],"are":[117],"considered.":[118],"A":[119],"\u201chow":[120],"to\u201d":[121],"guide":[122],"provided":[125],"offers":[127],"three":[128],"guiding":[129],"principles":[130],"enhancing":[132],"validity:":[134],"strategic":[136,151],"choice":[137],"question,":[140],"having":[141],"explicit":[142],"realistic":[144],"strategies":[145],"using":[147],"framing,":[152],"communicating,":[153],"disseminating":[155],"findings.":[157]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":6},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":10},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":9},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":6},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":10}],"updated_date":"2026-11-07T11:25:07.637180","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}
