Data for: When academic impact is not enough: A concept mapping study characterizing excellence in practice-based research

The data was collected during a research project investigating the conceptualization of research quality in the context of health and welfare research. Research quality is often discussed in terms of excellence, emphasizing replicability and trustworthiness. Practice-based research instead emphasis implementability and practical impact, and thus, may reflect other values and logics and challenge how high-quality practice-based research is defined. The aim of this study is to explore what characterizes excellent practice-based research.

The data was collected using the Group Concept Mapping methodology. Four data collection activities were used to collect the data: brainstorming, sorting, rating of importance, and rating of experience.

48 participants participated in the brainstorming session to generate the list of statements. 22 participants participated in the sorting activity which generated the similarity matrix. 13 participants rated the statements based on importance and 10 based on experience.

All participants were affiliated with or employed at a local or regional Research and development (R&D) organization and engaged in health and welfare research in Sweden in different ways.

The material consists of four data files:

1) List_of_statements.csv: List of statements from the brainstorming activity
2) Similarity_matrix1724400634.csv: Similarity matrix from the sorting activity. The similarity matrix show how many times each statement was sorted together with all other statements. This data-file was used as input for the multidimensional scaling.
3) Raw_rating_report_importance_1724400874.csv: Rating data for the importance rating. This data show how important each participant rated each statement on a 5-point scale. The scale ranged from 1=unimportant, to 5=very important. When data is missing, the corresponding cell has been left blank.
4) Raw_rating_report_experience_1724400881.csv: Rating data for the experience rating. This data show how much experience each participant rated that they had with each statement on a 5-point scale. The scale ranged from 1=The research characterizes the research I have experience of to a very low degree, to 5= The research characterizes the research I have experience of to a very high degree on the experience scale. When data is missing, the corresponding cell has been left blank.

All statement numbers correspond to the statement list in the file "List of statements".