#CoARA
Warum #Hochschulen #Reformen kritisch begleiten und nicht passiv übernehmen sollten, erklären die HRK-Vizepräsident:innen Angela Ittel und Georg Krausch in der aktuellen Ausgabe von Forschung & Lehre. Im Interview ordnen sie die europäische Reforminitiative „Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (#CoARA)“ ein. Ein wichtiger Impuls für die aktuelle Debatte um Qualität, Verantwortung und Kulturwandel in der #Forschungsbewertung. https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/heftarchiv/ausgabe-01/26
Uni-Präsident Prof. Oliver Günther wurde als der einzige deutsche Vertreter in das Steering Board der Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) gewählt.
CoARA ist eine internationale Initiative, die sich für eine faire, transparente und qualitative Weiterentwicklung der Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Forschung einsetzt.
Zur Medienmitteilung: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/nachrichten/detail/2026-01-08-forschung-transparent-bewerten-uni-praesident-prof-oliver-guenther-ins-steering-board-von-coara-gewaehlt
#CoARA #researchassessment #collaboration #international #research #forschung
Presenting the RESQUE (Research Quality Evaluation) framework:
Responsible Research Assessment I: Implementing #DORA and #CoARA for hiring and promotion in #psychology
https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4601
Responsible Research Assessment II: A specific proposal for hiring and promotion in psychology
https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4604
Responsible Research Assessment (Parts I and II): Responses to the Commentaries
https://conferences.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/article/view/4603
by @nicebread et al.
Conflating "Responsible Metrics" with "Responsible Assessment" is a common strategic error in research management.
Responsible Metrics focus on data sources and quantification (the technical side). Responsible Assessment focuses on institutional processes, ethics, and people (the political/governance side).
Adopting better data tools (like OpenAlex) without reforming decision-making cultures is not a solution. It is often just a way to make the same mistakes using better data.
My latest analysis on why this distinction is critical for policy design: https://copdeb.com/2025/12/22/diferencia-metricas-responsable-evaluacion-responsable/
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #CoARA #Bibliometrics #SciPol #ResearchManagement
How do we put Responsible Research Assessment into action?
Join us on 19 January, 12:00–14:00 CET, for a hands-on workshop applying the @CoARAssessment OI4RRA Open Infrastructure Checklist!
🔎 Explore the checklist: https://zenodo.org/records/17699724
👉 Register here: https://www.openaire.eu/community/events/eventdetail/1582/collaborative-pathways-to-responsible-research-assessment-via-open-infrastructures
"Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.3003532
PS: It's important to add that article-level metrics are preferable anyway. This is true whether we use citation metrics to measure impact or misuse them to measure quality.
📘 New Publication: Promising stories from the GraspOS Pilot studies
In this booklet, we present the implementation pathways and outcomes of the nine GraspOS Pilot studies, aimed at advancing Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) and strengthening Open Science practices across the European Research Area.
In the past three years, the GraspOS Pilots co-designed, validated, and evaluated Open Science-aware indicators, tools, and services for RRA across three assessment contexts:
* Funding agencies and national stakeholders using infrastructure to support funding evaluation processes.
* Universities, including departments and research groups, interested in recruitment and assessment.
* Thematic disciplines that establish domain-specific assessment criteria aligned with disciplinary needs.
The booklet offers concise narratives highlighting the activities, results, and insights from each Pilot.
🔗 Learn more and access the full booklet here: https://graspos.eu/promising-stories-from-the-graspos-pilot-studies
@OpenAIRE @opencitations @utrechtuniversity @inria @cwts @BarcelonaDORI @DORAssessment
@CoARAssessment
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #ReformingRA #CoARA #BarcelonaDORI #DORA
La iniciativa #CoARA pretende promover la diversidad de aportaciones, pero todavía está en discusión y cada institución lo está interpretando a su manera
Personalmente creo más valioso no contar la cantidad sino la calidad. En tu caso, número de docentes que adoptan la didáctica
Respuesta de @IsidroAguillo a @tolo_piza
Trustworthy #research information doesn’t emerge by chance, it must be designed into our infrastructures & workflows.
At #euroCRIS2025 Angeliki Tzouganatou presented the talk "Trust by Design", where she laid out how #OpenInfrastructures support responsible assessment through #transparency, #interoperability, & #community governance.
🔗Get more insights from the event https://tinyurl.com/45xw36sx
Today at #IAP2025, #OpenAIRE CEO
Natalia Manola joined experts from
@CoARAssessment, #ALLEAAcademies, @DORAssessment & #GlobalYoungAcademy to discuss transforming evaluation systems to support integrity, innovation & trust in science.
🔗 Event details: https://tinyurl.com/45u3k39w
🔗 Conference site: https://asrt-iap.eg.net
Upcoming Event
This Monday, 8:00–9:00 CET, OpenAIRE CEO Natalia Manola joins a high-level panel at the IAP Triennial Conference to discuss how reforming research assessment can drive trust, quality & meaningful impact in science.
Co-organised by @CoARAssessment @ALLEA & GYA.
🔗 Conference: https://asrt-iap.eg.net/
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #CoARA #SciencePolicy #IAP2025
"[F]or-profit publishing and the prestige economy it sustains no longer serve the interests of the research community. The aims of different actors in scholarly communication remain fundamentally misaligned. This means that we cannot work with commercial publishers to produce system-wide reform. With profit margins above 30%, the temptation will always be to pursue revenue over science."
The Drain of Scientific Publishing: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04820 #openaccess #coara
Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE CEO, took part as a speaker, bringing forward insights on community-driven reforms, open infrastructures, and the collective responsibility of shaping a more transparent and equitable research ecosystem.
Learn more about the event:
🔗https://www.openaire.eu/community/events/eventdetail/1546/eu-high-level-conference-on-reforming-re-search-ass-ess-ment
🔗Event host: https://www.cerra.aau.dk/
#ResponsibleResearchAssessment #RRA #OpenScience #CoARA #ResearchReform #OpenInfrastructures #ScholarlyCommunication #Policy #ResearchAssessmentReform #CeRRA
Although, or perhaps precisely because, the participants at the Research Assessment conference tend to be experienced and committed individuals, it is a very interesting conference. Many challenges are addressed, and at the same time it is motivating to see how small steps can change thinking and behaviour with regard to cultural change in science.
#cerra2025 #researchAssessment #openscience #CoARA #DORA #CoARACopenhagen @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment
Participation in the breakout session "Leadership in change" at the CeRRA conference. Interesting perspectives and examples of the implementation of research assessment in institutions and the role that leadership play in this process.
The audience was also involved, and the mood was captured with red and green cards.
What would you choose? Choose one card
#cerra2025 #researchAssessment #openscience #CoARA #DORA #CoARACopenhagen @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment
Happy Birthday to CoARA
Celebrating three years of Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment in Denmark at Aalborg University in Copenhagen
#cerra2025 #researchAssessment #openscience #CoARA #DORA #CoARACopenhagen @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment
In preparation of the EU High-Level Presidency Conference on Reforming Research Assessment (CeRRA), held in Copenhagen on Dec 3-4, 2025, the present report presents findings from ten case studies of international research funding agencies including public agencies, private foundations, independent research charities, and mission-driven institutions.
https://www.cerra.aau.dk/new-report-from-aau-n155893
#cerra2025 #researchAssessment #openscience #CoARA #DORA @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment
The 2025 @CoARAssessment Working-Group Co-Chairs Forum in Graz marked a turning point.
Read Full recap now →
https://www.openaire.eu/working-together-for-change-highlights-from-the-coara-working-group-co-chairs-forum-2025-in-graz
Joining a new instance, posting a new #introduction.
After three years in the Fediverse, including two wonderful years at https://fediscience.org/@fresseng, I’m joining the first French instance that is both dedicated to and hosted by the academic community.
Academic and physicist, I also dabble in politics.
I will be posting about #openscience #fairdata #freesoftware #foss #CoARA #researchassesment #scientificintegrity #digitalinfrastructure ... and #Fediverse