Incentives & Rewards

Providing practical alternatives to publishing metrics as the primary means of adjudicating scientists’ careers; supporting the hiring, promotion, retention, and funding of scientists committed to open and collaborative research.

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Goals

Determine how open and collaborative behaviors in conducting research can be measured.
Define the behaviors to be incentivized and establish infrastructure capable of tracking these activities.
Involve funders and institutions that are willing to test recommendations and templates.
Set up experimental design and evidence collection mechanisms.

Community Projects

DataWorks! Prize

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| Updated: 23 Aug 2024

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

The DataWorks! Prize recognizes the impactful role of data reuse on human health by recognizing and rewarding research teams who propose and execute innovative secondary analysis and data reuse.

Organization:

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

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Keywords:
Best Practices, Collaboration, Trust in Science

GraspOS: next Generation Research Assessment to Promote Open Science

Launched

| Updated: 28 May 2024

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

GraspOS aims to develop, assess and operate an open and trusted federated infrastructure for next generation research metrics and indicators, offering data, tools, services and guidance to further extend the reach and influence of open science.

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GraspOS: next Generation Research Assessment to Promote Open Science

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Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Monitoring/Tracking, Technology

HuMetricsHSS: Humane Metrics Initiative

Mature

| Updated: 23 Aug 2024

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

HuMetricsHSS is an initiative that creates and supports values-enacted frameworks for understanding and evaluating all aspects of the scholarly life well-lived and for promoting the nurturing of these values in scholarly practice.

Organization:

HuMetricsHSS: Humane Metrics Initiative

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Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Credits, Incentives, Metrics, Trust in Science

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ORFG Incentivization Blueprint

Launched

| Updated: 16 Nov 2022

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

A stepwise approach – including policy guidelines, implementation, and engagement – for funders to adjust their incentivization schemes to align with open access, open data, open science, and open research. Includes templated language with highlighted passages for inserting customized funder information.

Organization:

Open Research Funders Group (ORFG)
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Keywords:
Credits, Incentives, Policy, Rewards

Registered Reports

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| Updated: 21 May 2024

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

Registered Reports is a publishing format that emphasizes the importance of the research question and the quality of methodology by conducting peer review prior to data collection. High quality protocols are then provisionally accepted for publication upon completion of research.

Organization:

Center of Open Science

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Keywords:
Best Practices, Incentives, Peer Review, Policy, Rewards

Stanford Program on Research Rigor & Reproducibility (SPORR)

Launched

| Updated: 23 Aug 2023

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

SPORR is an NIH-funded program for promoting and implementing best practices in research rigor and reproducibility. The goal is to provide education, training, and resources in principles and tools that optimize efficiency, validity, and reproducibility. For instance, they’ve created templates for CVs and data management plans, and researchers are rewarded for innovations such as an open source lab manual of best practices for reproducibility of computational workflows.

Organization:

Stanford Medicine

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Keywords:
Collaboration, Incentives, Metrics, Training

The Hidden REF 5% Manifesto

Launched

| Updated: 20 May 2024

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

The 5% Manifesto is a campaign devised by the Hidden REF committee to encourage UK Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) to commit to at least 5% of their REF 2028 submission, being composed of non-traditional outputs.

Organization:

The hidden REF

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Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Best Practices, Incentives, Rewards

The Open and Universal Science (OPUS) project

Launched

| Updated: 21 May 2024

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

The Open and Universal Science (OPUS) project develops coordination and support measures to reform the assessment of research and researchers at Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) towards a system that incentivises and rewards researchers to take up Open Science practices.

Organization:

Open and Universal Science (OPUS)

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Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Incentives, Rewards

Toolkit of Incentives & Rewards for Open Collaborative Research

Planning

| Updated: 21 Nov 2022

Solution: Incentives & Rewards

Organization:

Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR)
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Keywords:
Assessment/Evaluation, Collaboration, Incentives, Rewards