« Science Europe was amongst the first signatories of the Agreement for Reforming Research Assessment in September 2022. It played a key role in drafting the Agreement: as a member of the Drafting Team, through chairing the Core Group of Experts, and as a partner in the initial secretariat of the…
« The United Kingdom has taken a significant step forward in advancing responsible research assessment with the establishment of a National Chapter of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).
Complementary to the San Francisco Declaration on Research…
« In January 2023, OpenAIRE, LIBER, SPARC Europe, and COAR launched a joint strategy aimed at strengthening the European repository network. As a first step, a survey of the European repository landscape was undertaken in February-March 2023. The survey…
« The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) is pleased to announce the launch of the CoARA Boost project, effective in retrospect from the 1st of October 2023 and set for a duration of three years. The EU funded project comprises about 5 million €, more than half of it to…
« Presentation of the CoARA french National Chapter creation. (…) »
« The Coalition’s ambition of reforming the current environment of research assessment sees a significant step forward with the very first Working Groups and National Chapters being appointed from the pool of submitted proposals. (…) »
« On 28 March 2023, CoARA launched its first call for Coalition members to propose Working Groups. This is a significant step in CoARA’s mission to enable systemic reform of research assessment and thereby providing a common direction. This call welcomes all CoARA members and will hopefully be responded by a…
« “The use of journal impact factors and other metric indicators of research productivity, such as the h-index, has been heavily criticised for being invalid for the assessment of individual researchers and for fueling a detrimental “publish or perish” culture. (…)
As of 12 January 2023, 441 organisations (including European…
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« L’Université de Genève a signé l’«Accord sur la réforme de l’évaluation de la recherche» aux côtés de centaines d’organisations scientifiques. Le texte vise à injecter des critères qualitatifs dans un système majoritairement basé sur des indices quantitatifs. (…) »
« On Friday, 17 February, the EOSC Association was formally recognized as a signatory to the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, sponsored by the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, CoARA. This fast-moving initiative is approaching 500 organisational signatories to the Agreement, and reported more than 300 organisations participating in
