This project will define, track, and assign credits for collaborative activities in research consortiums — e.g., inter- and intra-team sharing and discussion of research findings, peer reviewing, replicating, co-authoring, data curation and analysis, and posting incremental and negative results as preprints. We will develop quantitative and qualitative measures that translate to a credit system that can be tied to incentives and rewards bestowed by funders and academic institutions. The tools and processes created and/or recommended in the proposed credit system will necessarily have practical application for stakeholders who wish to reward open behaviors over solitary acts of publication.
Deliverables
Activity algorithm(s)
Exemplary credit system for one or more research projects
Documentation that relates credits to rewards
Recognition guidelines for academic institutions and funders
What’s Needed
Funded multi-team consortium(s) with an open science mandate
Project platform on which grantees communicate
Tracking tools for researchers’ protocols and outputs
Structured progress reports that intake data from the tracker
Algorithm that assigns credit values to shared content and interactive behaviors
