You have mail, the May newsletter is out! This month, you will find news about:

The Call for Posters for the #GraspOS Final Conference 'Opening Research Assessment' is now open! Submit your contribution by 5th July. The criteria and guidelines are available here: https://graspos.eu/graspos-conference-2025
Connecting the Dots: an interview on Recognising & Rewarding Open Science in Research Assessment. https://graspos.eu/connecting-the-dots-cross-project-conversations
The @CoARAssessment WG #OI4RRA published the Conceptual Architecture for the Implementation of a Responsible Research Assessment Framework Built on Open Infrastructures. https://graspos.eu/oi4rra-conceptual-architecture
New outputs from the Research on Research Institute for next-generation research assessment. https://researchonresearch.org/next-generation-research-assessment/
Join the Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2025 online, starting in two days! @opencitations @BarcelonaDORI https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSelGEfZ4gpe2_Ps55OpMmVa82xxMoYiOzSq6AmZlHK421-csA/viewform?usp=send_form

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How do countries assess research? With spreadsheets, committees, metrics - and increasingly, soul-searching. A new @RoRInstitute study compares 13 national systems and maps a quiet shift: from 'publish or perish' to 'be useful, be fair':

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29041787.v4

No silver bullets, just a very thoughtful typology.

The Call for Poster Contributions is now Open!
We are pleased to invite submissions for poster presentations at the Final Conference of the GraspOS Project 'Opening Research Assessment', taking place on 12–13 November 2025 in Pisa, Italy.
We welcome contributions that engage with the Conference’s central themes and topics. Authors should submit their proposals in the form of extended abstracts by July 5th 2025 (AoE).
Posters will be selected through an open, transparent peer-review process.

Details and submission: https://graspos.eu/graspos-conference-2025

#OpeningRA #OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #GraspOS #CoARA #DORA #BarcelonaDORI

@cwts @opencitations @utrechtuniversity @OpenAIRE @inria

A new episode of Connecting the Dots is out!
In this fourth episode, Inge van der Weijden, Robert Darby , and Tiina Sipola, respectively representing the Dutch national coordination of Open Science in Responsible Research Assessment initiatives, the Open and Responsible Researcher Reward and Recognition Project (OR4), and GraspOS discuss the recognition and rewarding of Open Science practices in the assessment of research and researchers.
Read the interview: https://graspos.eu/connecting-the-dots-recognising-and-rewarding-open-science-practices-in-research-er-assessment

Our series of interviews 'Connecting the Dots: Cross-Project Conversations' aims to highlight the collaborative efforts of multiple projects to advance Open Science and responsible research assessment. Read the collection of interviews: https://graspos.eu/connecting-the-dots-cross-project-conversations

#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #ReformingRA
@cwts

You still have time to register for our webinar this Thursday about Diamond #OpenAcccess, Open Infrastructures and how they interact with #ResearchAssessment reform, with insights from #GraspOS, #CRAFT-OA & #DIAMAS projects

Register here: https://graspos.eu/training-material

Researcher Profiles to foster #OpenScience: take a look at the GraspOS poster presented by Giulia Malaguarnera at the INORMS Congress in Madrid.
https://zenodo.org/records/15421941

#INORMS2025 #ResearchAssessment

@INORMS_REG @OpenAIRE

Being a "Highly Cited Researcher" has gone from a sign of having impact as a researcher to a potential indicator of misconduct.

"Manipulations have been so obvious and large that, in 2024, over 2,000 researchers were removed from a HCR list containing some 6,600 names." - Lauranne Chaignon

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/05/13/is-the-list-of-highly-cited-researchers-losing-credibility/

The @CoARAssessment Working Group Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment #OI4RRA has published a new output: “Conceptual Architecture for the Implementation of a Responsible Research Assessment Framework Built on Open Infrastructures”, available on Zenodo https://zenodo.org/records/15297695

The document presents a tiered conceptual architecture to guide the implementation of responsible research assessment based on open, interoperable infrastructures, and provides both strategic and technical guidance to support fair, inclusive, and transparent evaluation practices aligned with CoARA principles.

Two identical webinars will present the key elements of the work and provide an open space for discussion with the broader community, with contributions from Natalia Manola, and @vergoulis.
Friday, 23 May 2025, 11:00–12:00 CEST - https://zoom.us/meeting/register/gXvg6OKMS8O7RwKVRmFXZw#/registration
Monday, 26 May 2025, 15:00–16:00 CEST - https://zoom.us/meeting/register/fO33_ZWGTaePaCgiZzoO5A#/registration

#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #EOSC #OpenInfrastructure @OpenAIRE

Mark your calendars! The last #GraspOS Community of Practice meeting will take place on 11 June, from 14:00-15:00 CEST.

In this final session, @lizziegadd (#INORMS and @CoARAssessment) and Natalia Manola (@OpenAIRE) will discuss the opportunities and challenges of assessing #OpenScience.

What are the technical and social challenges of assessing Open Science in a fair an inclusive manner, and what are the opportunities that research assessment reform movements may present to include Open Science?

Join us, register now https://graspos.eu/community-of-practice-on-open-science-and-responsible-research-assessment

New on the #OSTrails Pilot Interviews!

Dive into our latest OSTrails Thematic Pilot spotlight featuring the Social Sciences pilot!

This month, we sit down with Alen Vodopijevec, Head of IT at CESSDA-ERIC to explore how the pilot is putting Open Science principles into action and pushing forward innovation in research assessment.

-Read the brand new interview and get inspired: https://ostrails.eu/thematic-pilot-interview-social-sciences

#ResearchAssessment is changing — and @helmholtz is helping lead the way.

Helmholtz’s new task group, coordinated by @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice supports better ways to promote and recognize research quality: https://os.helmholtz.de/open-science-in-helmholtz/arbeitskreis-open-science/task-group-research-assessment/

Webinar announcement! #ResearchAssessment in Transition: Open Infrastructures, Policy, and Diamond Open Access
22 May 2025 | 10:00–11:30 CEST

Explore how Diamond OA & open infrastructures interact with research assessment reform with #GraspOS, @craftoa and #DIAMAS projects

Learn more : https://graspos.eu/training-material
Register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/Xz9cfpD1SxySXwfcLrfF-Q#/registration

Our April newsletter is out! This month, find out about:
#GraspOS Final Conference: Opening #ResearchAssessment 12-13 Nov 2025, Italy. #OpeningRA
GraspOS Chats: an interview with Kumar Guha & Samuel Scalbert from @inria
Next Webinar on 22 May "Research Assessment in Transition: Open Infrastructures, Policy, and Diamond #OpenAccess"
News from @CoARAssessment , @DORAssessment & GraspOS partners
#EOSC Federation Handbook available
& and more!

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#PredatoryJournal is a complex issue. I consider that we should focus on two things: 1. Support researchers before they submit a Paper, 2. Reform #ResearchAssessment

I'm against generalizations in this subject.

To start the week, @dorassessment.bsky.social Community of Practice:

Using lotteries to increase fairness and efficiency in #ResearchAssessment:
https://sfdora.org/2025/03/27/using-lotteries-to-increase-fairness-and-efficiency-in-research-assessment/

Great talk by @aidybarnett.bsky.social on lotteries as a basis for funding decisions when reasons for differentiation run out!

Université de Lorraine publishes its CoARA action plan, though a bit renamed, to advance research assessment through the launch of communities of practise.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15193460

#ResearchAssessment
#CoARA
#UnivLorraine

L'Université de Lorraine publie son plan d'engagement CoARA pour faire évoluer l'évaluation de la recherche à travers l'initiation et le développement de communautés de pratiques.

https://factuel.univ-lorraine.fr/node/29921

#ResearchAssessment
#CoARA
#UnivLorraine

MDPI as a corruption indicator? A new preprint shows a striking trend across Europe : more MDPI papers → higher perceived corruption → lower innovation.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06282v1

It’s not that MDPI = bad. But when it dominates, it signals a broken system chasing quantity over quality.

Ukraine? Not in the study, but we see the same rise of #MDPI. We could build better. Instead, we copy the worst.