There are two ways to join the coalition, either as a signatory of the Agreement or as a full member of CoARA. Both signatories and members publicly endorse the reform of research assessment in line with the 10 core Commitments and both agree to submit an action plan within one year of signing the agreement.

Science Europe and EUA commit to build a strong dialogue on Research Assessment to help create more accurate, open, transparent, and responsible approaches that better reflects the evolution of research activity in the digital era.

After six months of co-creation with over 350 organisations from more than 40 countries, an agreement on the reform of research assessment has been finalised.

“The paper was riddled with serious problems,” this Ph.D. student writes

Can new tools like the OpenAIRE scholarly knowledge graph guide reforms to research assessment?

Science Europe welcomes the German Research Foundation (DFG) position paper "Academic Publishing as a Foundation and Area of Leverage for Research Assessment" on two important and timely topics. The paper reflects broad discussions that are taking place across the research landscape and neatly ties together the topics of academic publishing and research assessment, rightly highlighting their interconnections. Research assessment often focusses on quantifiable elements of research outputs: most often simple journal- and author-based publication metrics – these do not capture substance or quality of the research being assessed. The position paper highlights the importance of qualitative approaches that enable responsible research assessment, and how such changes can also enable changes to academic publication practices - which in turn will contribute to the positive evolution of research cultures and research systems.