Research On Research Institute (RoRI)

🌍 Together with our partners, we’re reshaping research systems – take a look. Since 2019, the Research on Research Institute has grown into a global collaboration of 30 funders and foundations working across 15 countries, collectively responsible for around US$30 billion in annual R&D investment.  We’re excited to share RoRI’s new Impact Report, a snapshot of what we’ve accomplished together with our partners over the past two years – and where we’re headed next: https://lnkd.in/eYC5bBRa

Three days of intense conferencing at #metascience2025. Grateful for the chance to share and continue to develop themes from my work with Emanuel Kulczycki on “How to be a scientific superpower”. Delighted to be in conversation with the fabulous panel on feminist metascience organized by Nicki Lisa Cole (including Gowri Gopalakrishna, Madeleine Pownall, Annayah Prosser, and Sakshi Ghai). And happy to see friends from across the decades, particularly those like Jason Priem (and colleagues at Our Research, including Kyle Demes) who continue to do excellent work in making scientometrics more accessible and inclusive. One thing is clear from this conference: the demand for metascience expertise is urgent, growing, and global. 

📣 Our last research seminar before the summer break! Friday next week, Alex Rushforth from CWTS and Gunnar Sivertsen from NIFU - Nordic institute for studies in Innovation, Research and Education will introduce a recent working paper titled "A new typology of national research assessment systems: Continuity and change in 13 countries". The paper comes forth from a Research On Research Institute (RoRI) project. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 11.7.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) 📌 Online For more information and the meeting link, please see our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/etggRWwQ

🎉 That’s a wrap on Metascience 2025! Three packed days of ideas, debates, and community - and we’re still buzzing from it all. We welcomed over 800 researchers, funders, policymakers, and innovators from 62 countries to tackle questions about the future of science and research systems. We’re grateful to all who spoke, chaired, presented, posted, and participated for making #Metascience2025 such a dynamic gathering 🌍

🎉 Big moment at #Metascience2025 - the Metascience Alliance has officially launched! Led by Tim Errington from the Center for Open Science, the Alliance is a new cross-sector network aiming to foster collaboration to better understand and improve the research system. We’re proud that RoRI is among the founding members - and excited to help build a more connected, visible, and impactful metascience community.

Important reflections from John-Arne Røttingen at #Metascience2025 on the value of open, transparent research data - and great to see Wellcome signing the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. A big step forward for open science.

📄 New report: "A Year in Metascience", reflecting on the activities of the UK Metascience Unit during its first year of operation. 📚 Included as well: a comprehensive annex, detailing the past, present and future of UK metascience, co-authored by the Research On Research Institute (RoRI) and the UK Metascience Unit. Highly recommended reading! 👉 https://lnkd.in/ed_BK4Vi

Lively start to #metascience2025 as Lord Vallance outlines how research on research can help governments make better decisions on research policy. Plus: Magdalena Skipper on broadening excellence to encompass diversity of outcomes. Sylvia Schwaag Serger on the need for an experimental metascientific unit in the EU. And Kelvin Mubiana Katukula (MA, MPhil) on the global necessity. Peter Gluckman on bloody bibliometrics and much else.

Yesterday, Lord Vallance opened the #Metascience2025 conference by launching 'A Year in Metascience', the UK Metascience Unit's first major public-facing report explaining what we have done in our first year and what we plan to do next. https://lnkd.in/eZvxvzzk This report is itself an experiment in sci comms: It's not really a glossy corporate report. Nor is it a compendium of academic papers. It is 100+ pages of deep, pure, metascientific wonkery, which ALSO aims to remain accessible to anyone interested in the research ecosystem and directly relevant to policymaking. Some headlines: - We successfully trialled ‘Distributed Peer Review’ – a radical new approach to grant peer review whereby applicants review each other. We found that it shortened the assessment and decision-making process by ~3 months, 53-65% faster than typical UKRI calls. - We ran simulations and trials of ‘Partial Randomisation’ – a tweak to the grant peer review process whereby ‘fundable’ applications near the budget cut off are subject to lottery. We argue that the current weight of evidence does not suggest that PR is a highly impactful and effective tool in funding policy.  - We are launching a global competition to find and validate new AI-driven indicators of scientific novelty, collaborating with RAND Europe, University of Sussex Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), Elsevier. Also see my commentary article in Nature on this: https://lnkd.in/ecT3WZvr - We are funding 23 UK-led international collaborative projects (£5m total value) on a broad range of metascience topics, co-funded with Open Philanthropy. - We are funding 18 early career fellows (£4m total value) to fill an urgent research gap: how AI is changing science and how should it (epistemically, ethically, metascience-wise)? W. parallel cohorts funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and SSHRC-CRSH. - We are opening up UKRI award data to external researchers at scale for the first time, funding five multi-university collaborations that are aimed at learning more about our funding system and how UKRI can better target its portfolio. - A must-read annex to the report, co-written with the Research On Research Institute (RoRI) and Leiden University guides readers through the complex past, present and future of the metascience field.   I'm hugely proud of the small but brilliant team we've built this year, a chimera spanning Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation with my co-head Jen Gold (recently anointed MBE!!); core team Jack Leahy, Lucy Gresley, Sheila Santharamohana, Cillian Brophy; and grant delivery team Chiaki Beis, Louise Thomas and Sereen Kutubi shouldering a huge amount of effort that you'll see through these pages. Huge thank you to our senior champions and amazing collaborators. #Metascience, #UKRI #DSIT #PeerReview #AI4Science #Metascience2025

📢 New report charts the evolution and future direction of UK metascience Opening the Metascience 2025 conference in London, Science Minister Lord Patrick Vallance today launched two major publications that demonstrate the UK’s growing leadership in research on research: 🔹'A Year in Metascience', a government-led overview of current activity and emerging priorities; and 🔹'The Past, Present and Future of UK Metascience', a supporting technical report co-authored by the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) and the UK Metascience Unit Together, they offer the most comprehensive picture yet of UK metascience — where it stands, where it’s heading, and how it compares globally. Read both reports here: https://lnkd.in/ed_BK4Vi