The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada developed a tool called Research Quality Plus…
Journals and publishers
FAST principles to foster a positive preprint feedback culture
Preprints are an essential tool for accelerating scientific discovery as they provide early and free…
Quality Output Checklist and Content Assessment (QuOCCA): a new tool for assessing research quality and reproducibility
The Research Quality Committee at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) has developed a new tool to…
Why Does Research Assessment Need Systems Thinking?
Ruth Schmidt and colleagues explain how systems thinking can advance responsible research assessment. In an…
The Open Reviewers Toolkit
The Open Reviewers Toolkit was created by PREreview in 2021 to help guide the responsible…
Progress on Open Science: Towards a Shared Research Knowledge System
This is the 2020 final report from the European Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) that…
Top Factor
Top Factor is a tool developed by the Center of Open Science to rate journals’…
Responsible Science Assessment: downplaying indexes, boosting quality
In this piece, Alicia Kowaltowski, Ariel Silber, and Marcus Oliveira outline challenges faced by the…
How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment
Editorial decisions influence research assessment. This article provides 10 concrete recommendations that journals and publishers can take to help improve how research is assessed.