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Meeting of the Strategic Installation Grants Committee, Hinxton/UK, 2019
EMBO engages in policy work on research assessment and its impact on evaluations of scientists and their work. Fair assessment of applications and project proposals can be compromised through the inappropriate use of quantitative indicators such as publications metrics or through biases. We foster the sharing of best practices for conducting research assessments, and initiatives for improving them.
EMBO is a founding member of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), a global initiative to advance practical approaches to research and researcher assessment across all scholarly disciplines.
Since the Declaration’s publication in 2013, DORA has transformed from a call to action into an active initiative. EMBO actively supports DORA.
Bernd Pulverer, Head of EMBO Scientific Publishing, serves on DORA’s Steering Committee, and Helen Sitar, EMBO Policy Officer, serves as DORA’s Community Coordinator.
EMBO organizes and leads sessions at international conferences on issues relating to research assessment and peer review.
A selection of upcoming events:
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A selection of past events:
Experiments in evaluation: lessons from randomisation in research funding. An SNSF, EMBO & RoRI virtual workshop
1 and 2 December 2021
Understanding peer review and government grant selection process, 6th Annual LymeMIND conference, 23 October, 2021. Video of the session
Setting Positive Incentives in Research Assessment: How to align criteria with research integrity principles, ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice, 27-29 September 2021
Emerging Trends at the Intersection of Research Publishing, Open Science, and Academic Reward and Recognition Systems, CellBio2020 Virtual Meeting, 2 December 2020
Addressing Roadblocks in Research Assessment Reform, EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), 3 September 2020
How to Improve Research Assessment during the Triage Phase of Application Review, ASCB | EMBO Meeting, December 2019
EMBO is part of the Open Science task force of the Initiative for Science in Europe, which published the report “Centrality of researchers in reforming research assessment – Routes to improve research by aligning rewards with Open Science practices” in February 2022
EMBO is a partner in RoRI, an international consortium of funders, universities and technologists. The group uses evidence-based approaches to experimentation to improve the way research is funded, practised, and evaluated to ensure that it benefits more people.
The EMBO Policy programme is involved in the RoRI workstream on Randomisation.
Read the The experimental research funder’s handbook produced by EMBO with RoRI, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and Innovation Growth Lab (IGL) at Nesta.
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