Join for ICOR’s Final Public Meeting of the Year on Research Metrics and Indicators

• November 7, 2024

ICOR announced the final ICOR public meeting of 2024, focusing on aligning best practices for developing and utilizing research metrics and indicators. Mark your calendars for November 13 at 8am PST, 11am EST, 4pm GMT, or 5pm CET, and join for an insightful discussion on advancing responsible and impactful research assessment.

Agenda and Registration

This meeting will explore how research quality and impact are measured and understood. Traditional metrics have often been limited in scope, but change is on the horizon. Over the past decade, the responsible research assessment movement has gained momentum, advocating for structured narratives as a richer, alternative approach to demonstrating research impact. Alongside this, new indicators for open scholarship have emerged, aimed at recognizing and encouraging open practices. As the community adopts these broader indicators, there’s an opportunity for alignment on good assessment practices to provide a more nuanced understanding of research impact.

Meeting Highlights

The agenda includes presentations from three expert speakers who will share their insights into contemporary research assessment strategies:

1. Research Metrics – Shared Goals for All
   • Speaker: Kelly Cobey, University of Ottawa Heart Institute and Co-Chair of DORA
   • Time: 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for questions
2. The Emergence of Structured Narratives
   • Speaker: Karen Stroobants, CultureBase Consulting
   • Time: 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for questions
3. Balancing Data-Driven Metrics with Context
   • Speaker: Iratxe Puebla, Make Data Count
   • Time: 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for questions

Join the Discussion and Shape Future ICOR Topics

Anna Hatch, Program Officer for Open Science Strategy at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), will open the session, introducing the topic and the speakers. Together, the presentations will explore ways the research community can collaborate, connect, and learn from one another to build responsible and inclusive assessment practices.

Register here to secure your spot at the meeting!