Research(er) assessment that considers open science - Leiden Madtrics

"When relating this ambiguity to research(er) assessment, it becomes evident that the proliferation of open science practices challenges the monochromatic properties of publication-driven research(er) assessments. This urges research assessment to be reconsidered in the light of open science. Luckily, there has been much work in making research(er) assessment more polychromatic. This has been spearheaded by initiatives such as DORA, has stabilised with the formulation of the Hong Kong Principles and recently has institutionalised in the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (COARA); a massive undertaking that supports the adoption of responsible research assessment practices across knowledge producing organisations....

Indeed, there is ongoing work to illuminate these complexities in the form of various European Commission-funded projects. How research(er) assessment that considers opens science can play out in practice is being researched by GraspOS, a project which is concerned with how infrastructures afford the uptake of research assessment that values open science. The project OPUS focuses on indicators for the assessment of researchers in the context of open science. PathOS tries to better understand the impacts of open science. Similarly, the SUPER MoRRI project developed an evaluation and monitoring framework for responsible research and innovation in Europe that, in many ways, relates to reconfigurations in knowledge production as posited under the banner of open science as well....

We hope to hear stories about issues, frustrations and successes of research assessment in relation to open science. Finally, the goal of this community is to create a bouquet of stories from which we can learn and draw inspiration for our own research assessments. If this is something of interest to you, please feel free to register here and share this post."