Internal Impact Workflow

Track the impact of research, even when it travels through others.

Impact Liaison is being built for impacts teams at universities and research institutes. The first live module is an authenticated OpenAlex publications workflow that helps teams pull evidence quickly without rebuilding the process in spreadsheets.

Team login Why it exists

Authenticated internal workspace OpenAlex publication retrieval CSV export for impact evidence

The real problem

Research impact is often indirect, delayed, and delivered through partners, policy bodies, funders, or other institutions. Teams need a workflow surface built for that reality rather than another generic dashboard.

Pilot focus Authenticated internal tools for small impacts teams.

First module Search authors, retrieve works, preview rows, export CSV.

Future direction Additional evidence modules once the publication workflow hardens.

Why Teams Need This

The workflow is operational, not decorative.

Impact Liaison is aimed at the day-to-day job of building evidence sets, reconciling contributors, and handing structured outputs into impact reporting workflows.

Track indirect impact

Capture evidence chains where research influence shows up through partners, funders, policy bodies, or delivery organisations rather than directly.

Support impacts teams

Give university and institute teams a shared internal workflow instead of scattered spreadsheets and ad hoc exports.

Start with publications

The first live module uses OpenAlex to search academics, retrieve works in a date window, and export a clean evidence-ready CSV.

Current Foundation

Built for a small serious pilot.

Authenticated internal workspace under the same minimal PHP runtime.
OpenAlex author search with multi-author selection.
CSV export focused on practical impact-evidence workflows.
Session-backed working state for pilot teams without overbuilding persistence.
Separate Impact Liaison mail/runtime config so MathBot stays isolated.