Identifying trustworthy experts: how do policymakers find and assess public health researchers worth consulting or collaborating with?

This paper reports data from semi-structured interviews on how 26 Australian civil servants, ministers and ministerial advisors find and evaluate researchers with whom they wish to consult or collaborate. Policymakers valued researchers who had credibility across the three attributes seen as contrib...

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Main Authors: Abby S Haynes, Gemma E Derrick, Sally Redman, Wayne D Hall, James A Gillespie, Simon Chapman, Heidi Sturk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22403693/?tool=EBI