SESSION 5: OPENNESS AND METRICS IN THE ACADEMIC SYSTEM

THE FUTURE OF OPEN RESEARCH: RELIABLE, RESPONSIBLE, EQUITABLE

FOR2026 CONFERENCE

MAY 4-6, 2026

TUM - INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES BUILDING, GARCHING

SESSION 5: OPENNESS AND METRICS IN THE ACADEMIC SYSTEM.

Chair: Richard Williams (Technical University of Munich)

1. “Towards a New Ethos of Science or a Reform of the Institution of Science? The Prospects of Institutionalizing the Research Values of Openness and Mutual Responsiveness.”

Rene Von Schomberg (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)

2. “Open Research and Academic Capitalism: Areas of Opposition and Alignment.”

Thomas Hostler (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom)

3. “Beyond Metrics: Qualitative Approaches to Open Research Monitoring in Social Sciences and Humanities.”

Maike Neufend, Maaike Duine (Open Research Office Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

Maxi Kindling (Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

4. “Responsible Open Science: Research Ethics and Integrity in Practice.”

Maria Strecht Almeida, Ana Sofia Carvalho (ICBAS, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal)

5. “Beyond the League Tables: Contesting Global Rankings in the Move Toward Open Research.”

Quoc Tan Tran (University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany)

Angeliki Tzouganatou (OpenAIRE, Attiki, Greece)

6. “Co-Evaluation for Open Research: Lessons from the #Discussai Think-Ins.”

Michael Creek, Marzia Mazzonetto (Stickydot, Brussels, Belgium)

[Cancelled]

7. “Enabling A Commons - The Challenges EOSC will Encounter for Equitable Access.”

Hugh Shanahan (Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom)

8. “Evidence for Equitable Open Research with the EOSC Open Science Observatory.”

Tereza Szybisty (OpenAIRE AMKE, Athens, Greece)

9. “In Trust We Build: Engaging Disciplinary Communities in Service Development - Early Experiences from Base 4NFDI.”

Sandra Zänkert (ZBMED – Information Center for Life Sciences, Cologne, Germany)

10. “RIECS - Concept: Shaping Tomorrow's European Research Infrastructure for Excellent Citizen Science”

Franziska Stressmann, Carolina Doran, Kai-Ti Wu (European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), Berlin, Germany)