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How can we responsibly assess research that champions openness, collaboration and real-world impact?

At #OSFair2025, the Research Assessment track brings together experts exploring new practices, infrastructures, and ethical frameworks.

6 sessions + 3 posters covering reform, monitoring, policy, and beyond.

Join us: opensciencefair.eu/registratio

#OSFair2025 #OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #Infrastructure #SciencePolicy #OpenAIRE #CERN @CERN @OpenAIRE

R&D is the backbone of long-term innovation, but warning signs are emerging.

This new piece from Brookings highlights how declining funding, tighter grant access, and talent barriers could slow U.S. progress in areas like AI and quantum.
🔗 brookings.edu/articles/attacks

Support for open science, global collaboration, and public research matters more than ever.
#Research #SciencePolicy

📣 The IAP Annual Report 2024 is now available.

Discover how the global network of science, medicine & engineering academies advanced capacity building, policy advice, science education, and international collaboration over the past year.
Highlights include work on AI and biosecurity, support for regional networks, and new members.
🔗 interacademies.org/publication
#SciencePolicy #IAPartnership #Academies #OpenScience #IAPReport2024

www.interacademies.orgIAP Annual Report 2024The IAP Annual Report 2024 offers a comprehensive account of IAP’s work throughout the year, highlighting its commitment to strengthening the capacity of merit-based academies of science, medicine and engineering across the globe. With updates from IAP’s four regional networks – the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA), European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), Inter-American Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS), and Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) – the report reflects IAP’s continued dedication to advancing regional cooperation, science advice and capacity building. This edition captures progress under the IAP Strategic Plan 2024–2026, structured around four strategic priorities: supporting regional and national academies, promoting evidence-based science advice, expanding education and outreach initiatives, and strengthening the IAP global network. Highlights include IAP’s continued engagement in biosecurity and artificial intelligence through international partnerships, new outputs on research evaluation reform, and contributions to the UN Scientific Advisory Board. In education, IAP expanded inquiry-based science learning through its Science Education Programme, awarded small grants for science centre development in Africa, and welcomed new members into its growing Young Physician Leaders network. Additionally, IAP maintained strong digital engagement, introduced new communication platforms, and prepared for its 2025 Triennial Conference to be hosted in Egypt. Reflecting the collective strength of its network of academies from around the globe, the 2024 Annual Report underscores IAP’s role in fostering global scientific collaboration and ensuring that science informs policy for a more sustainable, equitable future.

A brilliant new paper in #ResearchEvaluation 📄 compares how the UK, Norway, and Poland implemented research impact assessment - with very different results:

🇬🇧 UK built infrastructure, #REF became a strategic tool.
🇳🇴 Norway took a soft, formative approach.
🇵🇱 Poland copy-pasted, spent big - got confusion, “point-chasing” and no culture shift.

:doi: doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf01

🇺🇦 A lesson Ukraine risks ignoring again.

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

👉 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.

A solid collaboration between Italian and Armenian colleagues just published in #Scientometrics:

:doi: doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-053

At first glance, the gap seems overwhelming: only 28.3% of 🇦🇲 researchers had at least one WoS-indexed publication (2017-2021), compared to 98.1% in 🇮🇹.

If we treat this not as a competition, but as a diagnostic baseline, it becomes a valuable tool. Imagine repeating this in 5 years – it could offer real insight into whether reforms are working.

SpringerLinkBenchmarking research performance in a post-Soviet science system: the case of Armenia - ScientometricsThirty years after the dissolution of the USSR, the significant disparity between the research infrastructures of former Soviet republics and Western countries remains evident. Despite various efforts to transform national research systems through policies aimed at encouraging participation in global academic networks, enhancing research quality, and disseminating results through high-impact international journals, the gap persists. This paper first examines the reforms implemented by the Armenian science system to integrate more closely with the European Research Area. It then presents the outcomes of a bibliometric research evaluation exercise, using Italy as a benchmark. Based on 2017–2021 WoS data, we measured the research productivity (scholarly impact) at the individual level of almost 4000 Armenian scientists. By aggregating this data at the meso and macro levels, we provide a comprehensive picture of the Armenian research system’s strengths and weaknesses. These insights are valuable for informing future policy interventions aimed at enhancing the science system through adaptation to global standards.

BREAKING: Inger Andersen, Exec Dir of @unep has designated Neville Ash (Director UNEP-WCMC) to serve as Officer-in-Charge of IPBES secretariat when Exec Sec Anne Larigauderie completes her term at end of April, until new Exec Sec appointed.

Welcome back Neville!