“The only way an organization from the Global North can really make an impact and to be inclusive is to collaborate.” Read key takeaways from our event with TCC Africa in Nairobi, exploring new models for open science: plos.io/48QqFrm #OpenScience #OpenInfrastructure

Director of Open Research Solutions, @iainhz.bsky.social, shares updates from our Redefining Publishing initiative, exploring how we can redesign publishing to better support #OpenScience and reform #ResearchAssessment ⬇️

Pour la première fois à l’échelle d’un pays entier, la France, une étude indépendante montre que les pratiques de #scienceouverte sont associées à une augmentation des citations.

In a newly released arXiv preprint, we explore how open science practice like sharing data, code and preprints relate to citation impact in French-authored research over a 3-year period. Thanks to @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social for highlighting its national importance. 🔗 Read more: plos.io/3Vmykrj

A new arXiv preprint from Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and Lauren Cadwallader at PLOS with Prof Giovanni Colavizza, explores links between open science practices and citation impact across over 576,000 publications. 🔗 Read the full preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.20747 #OpenScience #OSI #Preprints

This is ground breaking and transformative at the same time! The ability to capture (and monitor) open science efforts -beyond publications and citations - will make it much easier to demonstrate the impact of research, rather than waving in that general direction and hope it is credible.

The latest PLOS Open Science Indicators (OSI) dataset is here! In partnership with @dataseerai.bsky.social, the new dataset includes insights from 166K+ articles. In addition, we explore lessons learned from years of OSI development on The Official PLOS Blog. 📈 plos.io/3ZFdjYL 🔎 plos.io/40N0Oxj

📺 #RLUK25 VIDEO | How libraries collaborate to monitor open research Roundtable feat. Neil Jacobs @ukrepro.bsky.social Etienne Roesch (Reading) @iainhz.bsky.social @jenniad.bsky.social & Radoslaw Pajor (Leicester) ▶️ youtu.be/WGRutcCGrbU

In the latest PLOS Open Science Indicators dataset (in collaboration with DataSeer) users can more easily segment results by research topics / disciplines and geography, thanks to integration of OpenAlex metadata. Great to see this much-requested improvement live theplosblog.plos.org/2025/01/inte...

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Our paper exploring the effects of Open Science practices (research data sharing, preprint posting, code sharing) on citations was published after peer review in PLOS ONE last month journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Preprinting correlates with a 20% citation increase; data sharing in a repository 4%

New preprint from PLOS on how researchers assess credibility of scholarly work in the context of committee service. I’ll be presenting these results at the 4S/EASST meeting in Amsterdam this summer! osf.io/preprints/me...

Are you interested in the effects / impact of #openscience? Are you interested in evidence? Then see this excellent resource from the PathOS (Open Science Impact Pathways) EU-funded project pathos-project.eu/os-impact-ev...

Assessing credibility of research is very important but researchers lack tools to do this effectively = opportunities to refocus research assessment on research integrity, rigour and transparency, rather than using proxies for impact. New research from the team at PLOS: doi.org/10.31222/osf...