OpenAIRE at The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable in Munich 🙌
Key discussions focused on a growing shift in research evaluation:
➡️ universities moving away from global rankings
➡️ towards more open, transparent, and equitable approaches
Work from #EOSCTrack also highlighted a key point:
open research needs open and transparent monitoring.
Der neueste Helmholtz Open Science Newsletter ist erschienen!
➡️ Eine neue Ära für Open Research Europe: Deutschland beteiligt sich an der Europäischen Allianz für kostenfreies Open-Access-Publizieren.
➡️ Forschungsbewertung bei @helmholtz: Wir teilen spannende Erkenntnisse aus einer zentrenübergreifenden Umfrage.
➡️ @pid4nfdi: Aktuelle Entwicklungen aus dem NFDI-Basisdienst.
👉 Jetzt den vollständigen Newsletter lesen: https://lnkd.in/dVb2ZANW
The Helmholtz Open Science Office (OS Office) is the central hub for open science within the Helmholtz Association, Germany’s largest scientific organization with 18 research centers across six research areas. It contributes to national and international open science developments and guides reforms in research assessment. In February 2025, the OS Office signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA) and joined the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), reflecting its commitment to responsible, quality-oriented evaluation practices. To support research assessment reforms across the 18 Helmholtz Research Centers, the OS Office and the Helmholtz Working Group Open Science established the cross-cutting Helmholtz Task Group Research Assessment in March 2025. This bottom-up initiative aims to inform researchers and management about national and international developments in the fields of research assessment and evaluation, increase the visibility of ongoing research assessment reform efforts within the Helmholtz Association, and provide a platform for identifying and developing new quality-oriented research assessment systems and tools. To support these goals with an empirical evidence base, the Task Group conducted a short cross-center survey among Helmholtz researchers and research-related staff. The purpose of the survey was twofold: first, to understand which criteria researchers perceive as currently shaping performance evaluations and career decisions; and second, to identify which criteria they believe should be considered in the future. The survey was conducted from June 23, 2025 to September 23, 2025 as an anonymous online questionnaire targeting all 18 Helmholtz Centers and covering all six research areas. In total, 1,145 responses were collected. The survey reveals a broad consensus on the need to reform towards more value-based evaluation criteria as well as important disciplinary and role-based differences across professional positions. The data provides an empirical basis for developing modular CV formats, revised evaluation guidelines, and center-level implementation strategies. More broadly, it contributes to the international discourse on reforming research assessment by offering large-scale, institutionally grounded evidence from a major research organization.
OpenAIRE is bringing strong voices to the FOR2026 Conference in Munich next week! 🇩🇪
Three presentations covering research assessment, data rights, and the future of open metrics.
Are you attending? Meet us there!
🔗 https://www.openaire.eu/eventdetail/1510/for-2026-conference
#FOR2026 #OpenScience #OpenAIRE #ResearchAssessment #OpenREL #EOSCBeyond #OpenScienceObservatory
What if researcher profiles showed more than papers and metrics?
In this article for ERCIM News, Stefania Amodeo and Zenia Xenou explore how OpenAIRE is combining open data and narrative CVs to support more responsible research assessment.
A useful read on researcher recognition, open research information, and what richer profiles could look like in practice.
🔗Read more: https://shorturl.at/xIQHy
Participaré en dos sesiones del Ciclo Iberoamericano de Webinars sobre Gestión de la I+i, desde Consortia:
29 abril: #OpenScience como enfoque transversal en la gestión de la investigación.
20 mayo: #ResponsibleMetrics
en sistemas de evaluación institucional.
Horario: 10:00–13:00 (GMT-5). Acceso abierto.
#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #OpenAccess #ResearchManagement #CienciaAbierta
🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2fv9zVtW9tzFQRZbxeqR5vYiOTeICGb5XBaRR5OkpwGuLFA/viewform
What should count in research assessment?
Dr Mathijs Vleugel’s survey highlights a gap between perceived evaluation criteria and the ones researchers actually consider important.
He finds that researchers place more value on collaboration, good research practice, institutional culture, and impact.
🔗Read more: https://shorturl.at/PpvMB
#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #ResponsibleResearchAssessment
An unintended but positive side effect of the rise of AI and LLMs is that it may accelerate the long overdue reform of research assessment. If the "journals" are flooded with slop academia will be forced to take DORA seriously.
What should research assessment really value?
In our latest interview, Dr Mathijs Vleugel reflects on the gap between what is rewarded in evaluation and what researchers believe should count.
🔗Read the interview: https://shorturl.at/Ou1L3
In the #RESQUE evaluation scheme („Research Quality Evaluation scheme for psychological research“), there is an indicator for publications: “Correctness of computational results has been independently verified“.
With CODECHECK, you can request and upload a verification certificate. This gives you "extra points“ in our evaluation scheme, as this is a real quality criterion.
#researchAssessment #CoARA @aufdroeseler https://nerdculture.de/@aufdroeseler/116165190898955396
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