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A collection of materials to facilitate the development of responsible research and researcher assessment policies and practices.

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InitiativesPosition papers
For: Research institutes
2020
A working group set up by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies produced guidelines to improve how researchers are assessed in Finland. The report provides a set of general principles (transparency, integrity, fairness, competence, and diversity) that apply throughout 13 recommended good practices to improve four aspects of researcher evaluation.
Initiatives
For: FundersResearch institutes
2019
The Helsinki Initiative has three tenets to recognize multilingualism in scholarly work. This includes the promotion of language diversity in research assessment, evaluation, and funding systems.
Initiatives
For: FundersResearch institutes
Make Data Count is a global, community-led initiative focused on the development of open, responsibly created research data assessment metrics. Driven by partners at California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, DataONE, ScholCommLab, University of Ottawa, and ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, their goals are to produce evidence based studies on researcher behavior in citing…
Initiatives
For: FundersResearch institutes
2023
Research on Research (RoR), also known as meta-research or the science of science, focuses on enhancing research practices to ensure research transparency, efficiency, and benefit. The RoR registry and hub, launched in 2021 by the University of Southampton and the National Institute for Health and Care Research, provides a free online platform for recording and…
InitiativesJournal articles
For: Journals and publishersResearch institutes
2021
In this piece, Alicia Kowaltowski, Ariel Silber, and Marcus Oliveira outline challenges faced by the scientific research community resulting from the current framework of academic assessment. Challenges outlined by the authors include: Increased pressure on researchers to produce knowledge Increased pressure on researchers to publish and increased frequency of retraction of scientific articles due to…
InitiativesPosition papers
For: FundersProfessional societiesResearch institutes
Dutch public knowledge institutions and research funders published a position paper ‘Room for Everyone’s Talent‘ rethinking their academic reward and recognition systems.
Good practicesInitiatives
For: Journals and publishersProfessional societiesResearch institutes
Progress towards more responsible research assessment requires implementing and supporting more equitable and transparent standards of practice in the scientific community. Some journals have been considering these changes in how they operate, one of which is PLOS Biology. This article discusses PLOS Biology’s commitment to increasing code sharing and publishing peer review files in 2024…
InitiativesJournal articlesPolicies and guidance
For: FundersResearch institutes
2019
Institutions and funders can use the Hong Kong Principles to reward and recognize scholars for behavior that contributes to trustworthy research.
InitiativesJournal articlesPolicies and guidance
For: FundersResearch institutes
2015
The Leiden Manifesto provides ten principles for the appropriate use of metrics in research evaluation.
InitiativesPosition papers
2015
The Metric Tide was published in July 2015, and provides an extensive review of the literature on peer review, the use of metrics and altmetrics, and a statistical analysis of the predictive power of various numerical indicators (including the JIF).