After having worked as scholarly communication/open science librarian at Utrecht University Library for 15 years, in 2022 Bianca Kramer moved to independent consulting/research analyst role at Sesame Open Science, with a focus on open science, open metadata and open infrastructure.
She has investigated trends in innovations in scholarly communication across the research cycle in the project ‘Innovations in Scholarly Communication’. She has organized many interactive workshops on open science, including the course ‘Scientometrics using Open Data’ in collaboration with CWTS Leiden and Curtin Open Knowledge Institute (COKI).
Bianca has (co)authored commissioned reports on a quantitative analysis of publication types in Dutch research outputs, a gap analysis of Plan S-compliant publication venues, the diamond OA landscape, and the comparison of coverage and quality of metadata for Dutch research output in OpenAlex and OpenAIRE. She has also been involved in developing Open Access monitoring using open data sources in the Netherland and the UK.
Bianca is founding member of the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) and part of the organizing team of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.
She is currently a member of the Preprint Advisory Group of Crossref, and has been on the Europe PMC and Literature Services Scientific Advisory Board of EMBL-EBI, the board of FORCE11, and the EC Expert Group on the Future of Scholarly Communication and Scholarly Publishing
Research assessment and openness – a multi-faceted relationship
Bianca Kramer will explore the multi-faceted relationship between research assessment and openness, Questions around openness shape the lenses through which we look at research assessment – considering both who and what we include in assessment of research and researchers, and how such assessments can be performed.
On the question of who and what is included in research assessment, this concerns decisions on what research activities are included and which indicators of usage and impact (both qualitative and quantitative) are considered, but also who is involved in these decisions. What agency do researchers themselves have in what they are evaluated on, and how can research institutions and funders navigate the tension between context-dependency and comparability in assessment?
Regarding how research assessment is performed, there are questions around the extent to which available data shape choices in research assessment as well as around the importance and prioritization of open data sources. If it is considered that fair assessment requires full transparency, and equity in decision making requires inclusive data, then what does that mean for the systems we use and support to collect and analyze research information?
In her presentation, Bianca will discuss current international developments in reshaping research assessment, including – and how they position openness in the future of research assessment.
