Browse and read some of our reports, publications, and other relevant material:
Research Assessment
- Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review of Scholarly Articles, Books, and Funding Proposals, recommendations from the CoARA working group, July 2025
- Recognizing Preprint Peer Review, material from a workshop co-hosted by HHMI, ASAPbio and EMBO, 1-2 December 2022
- The experimental research funder’s handbook. RoRI Working Paper No.6, December 2021
- Informational report “Dealing with the limits of peer review with innovative approaches to allocating research funding”, 2021
- The troubles with peer review for allocating research funding, EMBO Reports, November 2019
- Centrality of Researchers in Reforming Research Assessment, ISE report, 2022
- When more is more: A DORA Community Discussion on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication, DORA blog, 2021
Environmental Sustainability
- Nature Correspondence: Sustainability in the lab: funders and researchers should sign up and partner up, October 2024
- The Heidelberg Agreement on Environmental Sustainability in Research Funding, October 2024
- Environmentally sustainable research: funders on the case, 17 May 2024
- The values of scientific conferences in a virtual framework: analysis and practical options, December 2021
Research Integrity
- Strengthening research integrity in Europe: Exploring the role of a pan-European body and engaging the research community, FEBS Network 2023
- EMBO research integrity workshops – Opportunities to discuss responsible research practice and policy, 2023
- Fostering research integrity in scientific institutions and in publishing, 2022
- Build research integrity across borders, Research Europe, July 2020
- Governance of research integrity: Options for a coordinated approach in Europe, 2020
- Cooperation & Liaison between Universities & Editors (CLUE): recommendations on best practice. Research Integrity Peer Review, June 2021
- Time to join up funders’ efforts on research integrity, Research Europe, July 2018
Open Science
Science Advice
- Controlled Anarchy, Fiona M Watt, EMBO Reports, 2025
- Standardization in Synthetic Biology: A White Book, September 2021
- EMBO|EMBL Science & Society conference Emerging Biotechnologies – Hype, Hope and Hard Reality, 5-6 November 2015, Heidelberg – Conference report
- ESF-supported Workshop on the Use of non-anonymized human genome sequence in research: Science and policy, 10-11 December 2014, EMBO, Heidelberg – Workshop report
- ESF-supported Workshop on the Biological Containment of Synthetic Microorganisms: Science and policy, 13-14 November 2012, EMBL, Heidelberg – Workshop report
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
- Exploring Quotas in Academia, AWIS magazine, Vol. 47, December 2015
- Exploring Quotas in Academia – Report on the impact of gender quotas on women’s leadership in European academic science, funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, September 2015