Graphical Representation of the OPUS Researcher Assessment Framework

This image shows how the OPUS Researcher Assessment Framework (RAF) is structured around 4 main categories of activities, which are divided into subcategories of these activities, and which consist of indicator groups of related indicators/metrics. The RAF is designed to comprehensively cover the full spectrum of researcher activities and offer researchers the possibility to be assessed on all relevant activities in a given assessment period, rather than solely on the traditional metrics of number of peer-reviewed publications and citations and journal impact factor (JIF). The inclusion of Open Science metrics in a given RAF at an Research-performing Organisation (RPO) or Research-funding Organisation (RFO) ensures that Open Science activities are explicitly recognised in the assessment. It remains the prerogative of RPOs and RFOs to determine how exactly to reward researchers for Open Science.

This image is part of O'Neill, G. (2024). OPUS Deliverable 3.1: Indicators and Metrics to Test in the Pilots. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10497434