A Unified Vision:
From Status Quo to Collaborative & Open
Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research (ICOR) envisions a culture that facilitates and rewards open science, which in turn enables collaboration and innovative, reproducible outcomes.
Shifting the Research Lifecycle from RED to GREEN
Building upon existing efforts that challenge the status quo, where the research cycle occurs in closed RED settings, we aim to contribute a roadmap toward open GREEN opportunities.
Scroll up and down to see the cycle change from red to green.


From theory to practice
ICOR proposes ten unified, real-world solutions that challenge the status quo and incentivize generous behaviors.
Collaboration Best Practices
Champions: All ICOR Strategists
Communication Strategies
Champions: Wyatt Korff, Maryose Franko
Open IP Toolbox
Champions: Aled Edwards, Dylan Wade Roskams-Edris
ROMS and PIDs
Champions: Kristen Ratan, Maryrose Franko
Collaborative Workspace
Champions: Sarah Greene, Kristen Ratan
Preprints in Progress
Champions: Jessica Polka, Iratxe Puebla
Reviewing Preprints
Champion: Damian Pattinson
Tracking Nano-Contributions
Champions: Danil Mikhailov, Yo Yehudi
Credit and Metrics
Champions: Kristen Ratan, Sarah Greene
Incentives and Rewards
Champions: Bodo Stern, Keith Yamamoto
Large-scale implementations
Initiatives that are piloting multiple solutions aligned with the work ICOR is doing.
Flip to Open: The tools, practices, costs and culture required for fully open and collaborative research
Aled Edwards, University of Toronto & Structural Genomics Consortium
Dylan Wade Roskams-Edris, Tanenbaum Open Science Institute
Open by Design: Arcadia Science, pushing the boundaries of open science in biology and biotechnology
Prachee Avasthi, Arcadia Science & Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College