Forschungseinblicke: Das Projekt Open and Responsible Research × Research on Research (ROR²) – Informationswissenschaft.org

"In a rapidly changing scientific landscape where the demand for transparency, rigour and openness is increasing, the ROR² project (Open and Responsible Research × Research on Research) aims to observe, understand and analyse changes in research practices and scientific publishing. 

Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) for three years from 2024, ROR² is led by a multidisciplinary consortium and is fully in line with the international research dynamic aimed at observing and analysing the new forms of regulation that structure researchers‘ practices on platforms, in order to better conceive ways of restoring trust, integrity, and reliability in the scientific ecosystem.

ROR² has two distinct and complementary scientific objectives: 

The first is to produce a detailed and in-depth analysis of researchers‘ openness practices in all their complexity (values, policies, and standards), considering them alongside integrity practices (values, principles, and codes/charters), while taking into account any abuses. The aim is to understand how these practices are determined within a continuum or context of disruption between responsible and irresponsible practices, or even fraud.

The second objective is to renew the frameworks for analysing and researching open science by adopting a multi-methodological, multidisciplinary and multi-scale approach. This approach falls under research on research and is necessary to address the complexity of the mechanisms by which practices are defined and evolve."