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Guest Post: Peer review in transition?

2 Nov 2021

This guest post is by members of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) team: Professor Ludo Waltman (Leiden University), Professor Stephen Pinfield (University of Sheffield), Dr Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner (Leiden University) and Dr Helen Buckley Woods (University of Sheffield) Several OASPA members and other scholarly publishers are experimenting with new approaches to peer review. The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) is working together with publishers to […]

Metascience 2021: that’s a wrap!

21 Oct 2021

Through the second half of September, the RoRI team were busy participating and contributing to Metascience 2021. Partnering with the Center for Open Science and AIMOS in this international conference, we were delighted that around 1,200 participants took part in six days of discussions spread across three time zones. RoRI hosted four sessions and here we […]

Job opportunity: FAIRware Project Consultant

21 Oct 2021

About FAIRware and the role FAIRware is a software tool intended to help researchers easily assess and improve the FAIR-ness of their work, based on the FAIR guiding principles which assert that research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). FAIRware is currently under development, managed and co-funded by several Research on Research Institute (RoRI) […]

What should we do with research ‘excellence’?

30 Sep 2021

Over the last 20 years, the notion of ‘excellence’ has permeated almost every inch of the research ecosystem – from research funding schemes, evaluation frameworks to publishing decisions. Once believed to be a way to measure the best of the best, ‘excellence’ is now more likely to be viewed as too ambiguous, the source of […]

Research on research driving practical solutions to make research better (part 1)

1 Sep 2021

By turning the tools of research back on itself, the RoRI consortium is working together to generate data, evidence and analysis that can improve how research is funded, practiced, communicated, and evaluated. What we’ve been up to Since our launch in autumn 2019, we’ve been busy with six projects and as these draw to a conclusion, we’re excited […]

Abby Taylor to become RoRI Associate Director

21 Aug 2021

We’re thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr Abby Taylor as Associate Director of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI). Abby is the Head of the Wellcome Trust’s Strategy and Data Insights team, supporting Wellcome to understand whether it’s achieving the long-term impact that it wants to as an organisation, bringing together insight from its […]

RoRI partnering with Metascience 2021: Registration now open

10 Aug 2021

Metascience 2021 is a global virtual conference spread over six days between the 16-18 and 23-25 September 2021. The conference will bring together over 800 researchers and practitioners using a diverse range of methods to investigate how research is done and how it can be improved. It will showcase emerging developments in metascience (another label for […]