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14 Oct 2025
As the new academic year gets underway, RoRI has boosted its research team with nine colleagues joining us at UCL and CWTS (Leiden University). These additions to RoRI’s team strengthen our expertise across metascience, AI, research assessment, and science policy. Their diverse experience will contribute to RoRI’s mission of improving research systems through evidence, data […]
1 Oct 2025
On 30 September, we welcomed Stian Westlake, Executive Chair of UK Research and Innovation’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), for a seminar at UCL’s Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) on how analytics and experimentation can strengthen research funding — and help UKRI realise its ambition to act as a “strategic […]
10 Sep 2025
Hans de Jonge, Jeroen Sondervan (Open Science NL, part of the Dutch Research Council NWO) and Bianca Kramer (Barcelona Declaration on Open Research) have published a detailed reflection on their experience using MetaROR, our open review platform for metaresearch, offering valuable insights for funders considering new ways of sharing their data and findings. They chose […]
1 Sep 2025
From 30 June to 2 July 2025, the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) and the Center for Open Science (COS) welcomed over 800 researchers, funders, policymakers, and innovators from 65 countries in London to explore the future of science and research systems. Across three days, leading voices in research, funding, publishing, policy, and technology explored how to build more effective, inclusive, and […]
27 Aug 2025
A new RoRI study tests a method for allocating research funding which challenges applicants themselves to decide who gets awarded funds. This study of “distributed peer review” shows that it can be faster, fairer and win support from researchers. Applicants as Reviewers: Evaluating the Risks, Benefits, and Potential of Distributed Peer Review for Grant Funding […]
15 Aug 2025
We’re delighted to announce that PLOS Biology has become the latest partner journal of MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review), the community platform jointly led by RoRI and the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS). Under MetaROR’s publish–review–curate model, researchers post their work on a preprint server, undergo open peer review via MetaROR, and receive […]
7 Aug 2025
The BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin is inviting non-commercial funders of clinical trials to participate in a co-creation workshop aimed at developing a new tool to support funders’ trial transparency needs. This initiative is part of a research study exploring how to improve transparency across the clinical trial ecosystem. […]
2 Jul 2025
The Metascience Alliance officially launched this morning at the Metascience 2025 Conference in London – with the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) proud to be among its founding members. As interest in metascience continues to grow globally, the Alliance represents a major step forward: a new cross-sector coalition and hub for alignment and collaboration across […]
30 Jun 2025
Opening the Metascience 2025 conference in London, Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance today launched two major publications that demonstrate the UK’s growing leadership in research on research: A Year in Metascience, a government-led overview of current activity and emerging priorities; and The Past, Present and Future of UK Metascience, a supporting technical report co-authored by […]
