2026/01/30 – Open science in academia: a framework for monitoring universities’ Open Science programs
“The monitoring framework we proposed in Section 4 represents a novelty in Open Science and research monitoring. Previous reflections by philosopher of science Sabina Leonelli (2023) inspired the idea behind this framework. From her approach, we take Open Science as firmly rooted in the daily practice of all research communities, in opposition to the concept of Open Science as a universal guideline applicable to every research field (Leonelli 2023). Our framework builds on Leonelli’s approach to a practice-oriented interpretation of Open Science in scientific research. This study is also informed by recent development in Open Science monitoring (such as the OSMI initiative and the PathOS project) and responsible research assessment initiatives (such as the CoARA initiative), as well as literature developed around Open Science monitoring case studies (Himanen and Nykyri 2024).”
2026/01/20 – Measuring the State of Open Science in Transportation Using Large Language Models
“Open science initiatives have strengthened scientific integrity and accelerated research progress across many fields, but the state of their practice within transportation research remains under-investigated. Key features of open science, defined here as data and code availability, are difficult to extract due to the inherent complexity of the field. Previous work has either been limited to small-scale studies due to the labor-intensive nature of manual analysis or has relied on large-scale bibliometric approaches that sacrifice contextual richness. This paper introduces an automatic and scalable feature-extraction pipeline to measure data and code availability in transportation research. (…) Open science represents a comprehensive vision integrating a wide array of concepts. However,using such broad terminology—which encompasses concepts ranging from open access publishing to
general knowledge sharing—introduces unnecessary ambiguity to this study and the associated feature
extraction. Therefore, we narrow the scope of open science practices to focus specifically on data and code
availability connected with a paper. To align with established open science monitoring principles, we
adopt clear, transparent decision rules as detailed below.”
2025/12/02 – Monitoring open science with scholarly content providers: what OSMI’s survey tells us
“For open science to advance, it is essential to monitor its practices to meaningfully assess whether they are achieving their intended goals for research and society. The Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) was established to help the community assess the adoption and impact of open science across the research ecosystem and beyond. One of its areas of focus is to understand how content providers are monitoring both open research outputs and the outcomes enabled by open outputs and practices. A recent survey of publishers, repositories, and content platforms shows genuine momentum in adoption of open science monitoring, alongside a diversity of areas of interest and uneven maturity. The survey results reveal that existing approaches are often driven by policy compliance and reporting obligations, with a conspicuous gap between indicators for open objects and evidence for the downstream impact of openness. The findings reveal opportunities to strengthen practices among scholarly content providers through greater methodological alignment and better support for newcomers adopting monitoring practices.”