« Open Science has revolutionized scholarly communication and research assessment by introducing research data and software as first-class citizens. Scholarly Knowledge Graphs (SKGs) are expected to play a crucial role in generating research assessment indicators being able to aggregate bibliographic metadata records and semantic relationships describing all research products and their…
« First version of Leibniz University’s CoARA Action Plan. The action plan wil be updated regularly. (…) »
« In recent years, the landscape of research assessment has been evolving to better recognize and reward open scholarship and preprints. This shift is driven by funding organizations and academic institutions that seek to enhance transparency, accessibility, and equity in research.
In this piece, Zen Faulkes, Program…
« The OPERAS Advocacy Special Interest Group currently focuses on a different topic each year. From September 2023 to August 2024, the group concentrated its efforts on Responsible Research Assessment (RRA). One outcome of this work was the workshop “Advocacy for Responsible Research Assessment for the Social Sciences…
« This report presents the basic results of a survey conducted among researchers in Finland on the importance of diversity in career-assessment criteria. The survey was created by a working group on Responsible Assessment of the Researcher for the purpose of informing the development of the Finnish Career Assessment Matrix (FIN-CAM).…
« University of Franche-Comté Action Plan 2024 for advancing research assessment in accordance with the CoARA principles. (…) »
« Over 700 research organisations, funders, assessment authorities, professional societies, and their associations have agreed on a common direction and principles for reforming the assessment of research, researchers and research organisations, outlined in the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment. They are also committed to implementing changes within their organisations. The Coalition…
« LIBER and LA Referencia Webinar – Making Research Assessment a Reality: Showcasing Concrete Open Science Advancements in Latin America and Europe
On 13 May 2024 LIBER and LA Referencia co-organised a webinar aiming at providing a panel of concrete case studies, inspiring examples and useful contacts for building a framework…
« Amongst academic stakeholders including funders and research managers, there is consensus that research assessment needs to be reformed. The recognition of open research data (ORD) plays a major role in these discussions. Against that background, this literature review is the first deliverable of the swissuniversities project Recognise Open Research Data,…
« 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…
