Reproducible research at UJI

Timeline

The UJI and Spain’s national funding and evaluation agencies in general are recently taking key steps towards open and transparent science.

  • Do not use journal-based metrics, such as impact factor, as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to evaluate the contributions of an individual scientist, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions.

  • Be explicit about the criteria used to evaluate the scientific productivity of research funding applicants, especially for researchers who are beginning their research career, that the scientific content of a paper is much more important than publication metrics or the identity of the article. the magazine in which it was published.

  • Consider the value and impact of all research results (including data sets and software) in addition to research publications, and consider a wide range of impact measures including indicators qualitative, such as influence on scientific policy and practices.

ARRA = 10 principles + 10 commitments

  1. Comply with ethics and integrity rules and practices
  2. Safeguard freedom of scientific research
  3. Respect the autonomy of research organisations
  4. Ensure independence and transparency of the data, infrastructure and criteria necessary for research assessment
  5. Focus research assessment criteria on quality
  6. Recognise the contributions that advance knowledge and impact
  7. Recognise the diversity of research activities, practices, and outputs
  8. Respect the variety of scientific disciplines, research types, and research career stages
  9. Acknowledge and valorise the diversity in research roles and careers
  10. Ensure gender equality, equal opportunities and inclusiveness
  1. Recognise the diversity of contributions to, and careers in, research
  2. Base research assessment primarily on qualitative evaluation for which peer review is central
  3. Abandon inappropriate uses in research assessment of journal- and publication-based metrics
  4. Avoid the use of rankings of research organisations in research assessment
  5. Commit resources to reforming research assessment
  6. Review and develop research assessment criteria, tools and processes
  7. Raise awareness of research assessment reform and provide transparent communication, guidance, and training on assessment criteria and processes as well as their use
  8. Exchange practices and experiences
  9. Communicate progress made on adherence to the Principles and implementation of the Commitments
  10. Evaluate practices, criteria and tools, and make data openly available for evidence

As a community, CoARA will develop and apply changes

UJI

As regards… …UJI recommends (April 2024)
Sharing publications Deposit journal articles and book chapters (preprint, postprint, publisher’s document) in the [institutional repository](https://repositori.uji.es/). Also recommended other types of publications
Publication licences CC BY-SA, CC BY-SA-NC
Data licences Researchers can choose between CC licences or copyright licences (potential commercial value).
Software licences Researchers can choose between permissive licences or copyright licences (potential commercial value).
Data FAIR principles Whenever possible, researchers will apply FAIR principles to research data (including deposit)
Software FAIR principles Whenever possible, deposit software tools in open access repositories (including deposit)