Research on Research Institute (RoRI)

« The Government of New Zealand has announced a major reform of its research and innovation system, including plans to create a single national research funding agency. The new body – Research Funding New Zealand – will consolidate decision-making currently dispersed across three public funders, with the aim of reducing bureaucracy…

« RoRI’s partners and researchers met at the Research Council of Norway in October to exchange ideas and project updates (…) »

« In the past five years, we’ve witnessed an incredible surge in innovation and energy directed towards metaresearch. Scholars from diverse disciplines have converged to form vibrant communities, pioneering new methodologies and research practice, to understand and improve how research findings are produced and disseminated.
This is exciting, but it…

« RoRI and AIMOS are launching the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform
MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) is a new open platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch through the publish-review-curate model.
Developed by RoRI and the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS), MetaROR’s…

« Stephen Pinfield, RoRI Senior Research Fellow, has published a new book on the need for scientific, epistemic and participatory openness
Achieving Global Open Access explores some of the key conditions that are necessary to deliver global Open Access (OA) that is effective and equitable. (…) »

« 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…

« The use of quantitative indicators and metrics in research assessment continues to generate a mix of enthusiasm, hostility and critique. To these we can now add growing interest in uses of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate assessment processes, and reduce the bureaucracy of conventional methods of peer…

« Talk by Cameron Neylon, Professor of Research Communication, Curtin University

The increase in the availability of data relevant to research performance evaluation over the past ten years has been transformational. Despite this and the parallel increase in the power of computational tools the actual indicators…