Impact Scoring
Assess the potential impact of a research gap, identify beneficiaries and output an impact score.
HARD-GATE
Pipeline
- Precondition check: verify input GapRecord completeness
- Beneficiary identification: enumerate the direct and indirect beneficiaries once this gap is filled (researchers, practitioners, patients, policymakers, society, etc.)
- Impact breadth assessment: the breadth of beneficiaries — the size of the affected population/institutions (1-5)
- Impact depth assessment: the degree of change for beneficiaries — marginal improvement or fundamental transformation (1-5)
- Composite score: equal-weighted average of the two dimensions, to one decimal place
- Output: return the ImpactScore object
Output Format
{
"gap_id": "gap_001",
"beneficiaries": [
{ "group": "beneficiary name", "type": "direct | indirect", "description": "how they benefit" }
],
"dimension_scores": {
"breadth": { "score": 4, "rationale": "..." },
"depth": { "score": 3, "rationale": "..." }
},
"composite_score": 3.5,
"overall_rationale": "Overall rationale (2-4 sentences)"
}