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Explore Open Science Indicators

Explore Open Science Indicators

Open science monitoring allows you to analyze how research and research artefacts are produced and shared. This knowledge can help you understand how open science is changing, which practices are valuable to researchers, and what role factors like policy and infrastructure play in these overall trends.  

We created our own open science monitoring framework—Open Science Indicators (OSIs)—in partnership with DataSeer to measure open science behaviors and identify ways in which we can further advance adoption of best practices. We’ve always made the OSI data and methods publicly available to help others understand the state of open science practice and create their own solutions to advance open science.

It's now easier to explore open science trends that are meaningful to you. 

Our new interactive dashboard prototype demonstrates the possibilities of open science monitoring today by making OSI data from more than 160,000 open access articles from PLOS journals and other publishers easier to explore. The dataset is enhanced by OpenAlex metadata enabling you to view trends relevant to your organization or country, break the data down by research field, or funder, and compare against similar groups or overall trends. 

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View the Open Science Indicators dashboard. We recommend viewing the dashboard in a desktop application for the best experience. 

Tell us what you think

Please let us know if you find this dashboard useful to your work, if you have questions that we can address, or if you'd like to learn more about OSIs.

Learn more about what you can do with OSIs

 
 
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See the potential impact of your open science policy

Read our tips for using open science indicators to identify opportunities for change and measure compliance by funder, organization, or country.

 

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Why we developed OSIs

Read our blog to learn more about why we developed Open Science Indicators and what we’ve learned so far from the data. 

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FAQs

For more information about Open Science Indicators and how to reuse this data, visit our FAQs page.

Learn more about what you can do with OSIs

 
 
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See how your organization’s open science trends compare

Read a tutorial on how to use the Open Science Indicators dashboard to assess your open science readiness and compare to similar organizations.

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See the impact of your open science policy

Read our tips for using open science indicators to identify opportunities for change and measure compliance by funder, organization, or country.

 

Why we developed OSIs

Read our blog to learn more about why we developed Open Science Indicators and what we’ve learned so far from the data.

FAQs

For more information about Open Science Indicators and how to reuse this data, visit our FAQs page.