Working Groups

The mission of the WG Towards Open Infrastructures for Responsible Research Assessment (OI4RRA) is to enable institutions to move from proprietary infrastructure and research information towards open and interoperable alternatives in support of the transition to responsible research assessment practices.

The mission of the WG Multilingualism and Langugae Biases in Research Assessment is to foster an academic culture that values diverse competencies, interactions, and communications in all languages without exclusions or priorities.

The mission of the WG Experiments in Assessment is to form an incubator for experimental ideas in research assessment by establishing a process to enable change that collects, refines, and pilots new initiatives and alternative methodologies.

The mission of the WG Reforming Academic Career Assessment is to broaden the reflection on research assessment to ACA, taking into account the full range of work conducted by academics in research, teaching, learning, innovation, management, leadership, and service to society.

The mission of the WG Responsible Metrics and Indicators is to critically evaluate current indicators currently employed in the evaluation of researchers, awards, institutional assessments, and the progression of scientific advancement with the aim of providing recommendations for reform.

The mission of the WG Improving Practices in the Assessment of Research Proposals is to improve practices in the assessments of research proposals, ultimately supporting higher quality and more impactful projects, in line with the principles and core commitments of the Agreement.

The mission of the WG Supporting the Alignment of Research Assessment Systems with CoARA in Biomedical Disciplines Through Administrative Reforms and Governance is to identify barriers and facilitators in the field, evaluate existing examples, consolidate experiences, and identify best practices.

The mission of the WG Ethics and Research Integrity Policy in Responsible Research Assessment for Data and Artificial Intelligence (ERIP) is to build global expertise to address the transformative cross-disciplinary impact of data and AI on research culture for the ethical development of AI in research and institutional research.

The mission of the WG Towards Transformations: Transdisciplinarity, Applied/Practice-Based Research, and Impacts is to align three distinct yet interconnected streams of activities towards transformations with the aim to generate societal impacts.

The mission of the WG Recognising and Rewarding Peer Review is to take into account a broad range of scholarly activities and give appropriate recognition for the crucial role that peer review plays in research with an aim to develop systematic approaches for recognising and rewarding peer review activities.

The mission of the WG Early-and-Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs) – Assessment and Research Culture is to collect best practices, monitor impacts, and develop guidelines, models, and a toolbox for implementation for EMCR assessment and methodologies to foster a more inclusive research culture.

The mission of the WG TIER – Towards an Inclusive Evaluation of Research is to identify and take into account systematic biases that may be present in evaluation criteria, as well as accidental confirmation biases that may arise among evaluators.

The mission of the WG Evaluating Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Research Globally is to identify distinct and shared methods and principles used in SSH assessment through a mapping of approaches across disciplines, countries, and language communities and foster community consensus around principles to underpin the framework for research assessment.