New research in Journal of Informetrics asked 2,300+ social scientists from 42 countries: what are your top-3 publications?
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101757
Only ~40% of self-identified “top” works also ranked in the author’s top-3 by citations. Even tripling citation counts wouldn’t push nearly a third of them into the bibliometric top. And 17% of “best” works don’t even appear in Scopus - especially in sociology and political science.
📚 The GraspOS Course: Rethinking Research Assessment is now live on the OpenPlato platform, offering a quick, practical and approachable way to explore the tools and ideas driving today’s transformation in research evaluation.
➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dTHDf3fV
➡️ Access the course: https://lnkd.in/dP-SDesm
📘 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
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
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
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
⏰ Starting today at 11.00 CET: don't miss our last GraspOS webinar on GoTriple's developments: Knowledge graphs and responsible metrics for SSH assessment
The GoTriple platform is adding new discovery and enrichment features under European projects LUMEN and GRAPHIA. This webinar will show how these technical developments support the responsible use of quantitative metrics in research assessment, and how knowledge graphs can offer significant insights in the SSH domain.
➡️ Learn more: https://graspos.eu/training-material
➡️ Registration is still open: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/pRN6fMBOTpKaqi7xpvS0AA#/registration
@OpenAIRE @operaseu
#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #ReformingRA #GoTriple #LUMEN #GRAPHIA
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
For ten years, #CRediT 🎂 has offered 14 standardized contributor roles that make authorship transparent: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03860-5
But there is a clear gap: CRediT has no place for #AI tools. So how should we properly disclose the use of ChatGPT & Co in research? One answer is #GAIDeT - Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy https://w3id.org/gaidet
#ResearchIntegrity #Responsible #OpenScience #Infrastructure #AIinResearch #Metadata #ResearchAssessment #AIinScience #AIethics
Check your mail! In the November #newsletter, find out about:
💫 Highlights from the #GraspOS Final Conference “Opening Research Assessment”, with slides available in our dedicated Zenodo collection https://zenodo.org/communities/graspos-finalconference/records
💎 SCOPE+i Resources for RRA are now available, browse through the set of tools designed to support all kinds of research assessment processes for research organisations
💎 Next webinar on GoTriple developments, knowledge graphs and responsible metrics for SSH assessment: join us online on 3rd December at 11:00 CET
…and more news and events from the Open Science and RRA community ➡️ graspos.eu/newsletters
#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #ReformingRA #OpeningRA @cwts @vergoulis @OpenAIRE @opencitations
This is a nice explainer video that shows the major problems of the h-index (and why you should not use it for #ResearchAssessment) https://sciences.social/@mikki/115614228347395111
Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia
✨ Thank you for joining us in Pisa!
The GraspOS Final Conference has officially wrapped up, and we’re grateful to everyone who contributed to two days of inspiring discussions on Opening Research Assessment.
Since the beginning of the project in 2023, GraspOS has worked to support policy reforms and build the foundations for a Responsible Research Assessment system that is aligned with Open Science. Over the two days of the Conference, discussions featured presentations of GraspOS results, invited talks, and expert panels covering critical areas such as open infrastructures for RRA, transparency and inclusivity of assessment processes, and the recognition of contributions to Open Science.
The slides from the presentations will soon be made available in our dedicated Zenodo Community: "Opening Research Assessment: GraspOS Final Conference Open Collection" https://zenodo.org/communities/graspos-finalconference/records
In the meantime, you can take a look at the highlights from the event: https://graspos.eu/highlights-from-the-graspos-final-conference-opening-research-assessment
@cwts @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment @OpenAIRE @EUCommission
@vergoulis @LudoWaltman @inria @opencitations @utrechtuniversity @euroCRIS
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #OpeningRA #GraspOS
How can rethinking #ResearchAssessment boost innovation, impact, and trust in science?
On 8 Dec, OpenAIRE CEO Natalia Manola joins the side event “From Metrics to Meaning” at the IAP Triennial Conference, organised by @CoARAssessment , @ALLEA and GYA to explore how reform is shaping a more open and responsible research culture.
🚨 Join us for our next webinar, focusing on GoTriple's developments: Knowledge Graphs and Responsible Metrics for SSH Assessment
🗓 3 December 2025, from 11:00 to 12:00 CET
Discover how GoTriple, part of the OPERAS Services Catalogue, is transforming the way we explore Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research. With millions of multilingual outputs brought together from scattered repositories, GoTriple is evolving through the European projects LUMEN and GRAPHIA.
🔍 In this webinar, you will learn to:
• Identify GoTriple’s key features for discovering diverse SSH research outputs
• Understand how infrastructure developments in platforms like GoTriple can support responsible and inclusive research assessment
• Recognise the value and limits of quantitative metrics in assessing research impact.
• Explore how knowledge graphs can support deeper insights into SSH research landscapes
🎙 Presenters: Carol Delmazo (OPERAS/GraspOS), Fotis Mystakopoulos (OPERAS/GraspOS), Julien Homo (Foxcub/GRAPHIA), and Licínia Ferreira (University of Coimbra/LUMEN)
🔗 Registration is open: https://graspos.eu/training-material
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #GraspOS #GoTriple #OPERAS @OpenAIRE
Udice, l'association de 13 universités intensives en recherche, s’engage avec @CoARAssessment pour une nouvelle culture de l’évaluation de la recherche.
"Depuis plusieurs années, Udice œuvre pour une recherche d’excellence, ouverte et intègre. Ce positionnement s’inscrit aujourd’hui dans un mouvement global de réflexion sur les modes d’évaluation de la recherche, qui influencent directement les orientations scientifiques, les carrières, et la dynamique de l’innovation."
#Udice
#ResearchAssessment
#evaluationdelarecherche
#scienceouverte
📣 Join the #GraspOS Community of Practice on 19 November at 16.00 CET to hear from Giovanna Lima and Janne Pölönen discussing common challenges for RRA, and how the @DORAssessment Guide for RPOs and the SCOPE+i framework developed in GraspOS can complement each other.
🔗 Learn more and register: https://graspos.eu/community-of-practice-on-open-science-and-responsible-research-assessment
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #ReformingRA #DORA #Science
💫 The second day of #OpeningRA has started!
Prof Maria Chiara Carrozza opens the conference delivering the keynote talk "Align, Act, Accelerate. A perspective on Open Science and responsible research assessment"
🔗 Full programme: https://graspos.eu/graspos-conference-2025
@OpenAIRE @opencitations @cwts @inria @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #CoARA
