Influence of research on open science in the public policy sphere

Filippo, Daniela De; Sastron-Toledo, Pablo

doi:10.1007/s11192-023-04645-1

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“…The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO at its 41st session, in November 2021, The efforts in these countries are characterized by an evolution of openness, with earlier open science policy efforts focusing on open data, open access and open infrastructures, while more recent policy efforts include citizen science and other participatory approaches. In some countries, open data policies are a prior policy development that seems to evolve into open and participatory policies [6]. For example, in the case of Spain, its 2017-2020 State Plan on Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation made it mandatory for results and research data obtained under public funding to be open [16].…”

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“…Several countries have already undertaken concrete steps to shaping their existing science, research and innovation policies. As De Filippo & Sastrón-Toledo ([ 6 ], p.2) have reported, in Europe, Finland has its Open Science and Research Initiative [ 7 , 8 ]; the Netherlands, the National Plan Open Science [ 9 ]; Portugal adopted an open scientific policy [ 10 ], France launched the French Plan for Open Science in 2018 [ 11 ], Greece kicked off the National Open Science Plan for Greece in 2020 [ 12 ]. Recently, the National Plan for Open Science was developed in Italy [ 13 ], Austria approved its policy on Open Science and the European Open Science Cloud in 2022 [ 14 ] and Spain introduced the National Strategy for Open Science 2023–2027 [ 15 ].…”

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Opening science to society: how to progress societal engagement into (open) science policies

Wehn,

Ajates,

Mandeville

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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A broad understanding of the aims and objectives of the international open science movement was recently adopted with the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, expanding the focus of open science to include scientific knowledge, infrastructures, knowledge systems and the open engagement of societal actors. In response, recent discussions on science policy practice are shifting to the implementation of open science via national policy. While policy instruments to support some aspects of open science are well-studied, guidance on the emerging ‘social’ aspects of open science has lagged, prompting UNESCO to generate guidance. In this paper, authors of a UNESCO Open Science Toolkit guidance document on ‘Engaging societal actors in Open Science’ synthesize the scholarly underpinnings behind the guidance document's recommendations. This work draws upon a targeted search from academic, policy, and grey literature in the fields of open science and community engagement, with a special focus on citizen science, to derive guidance on how to overcome barriers to the uptake of societal engagement approaches. The results present building blocks of what an enabling environment for the open engagement of societal actors could look like, identifying key considerations and reflecting on opportunities and challenges for progressing and evaluating sound open engagement of societal actors into regional & national (open) science policies.

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Opening science to society: how to progress societal engagement into (open) science policies

Wehn,

Ajates,

Mandeville

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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“…Empirical studies typically focus on specific aspects of OS, such as legal and ethical considerations, data sharing and research recognition and rewards, or on policies by a specific type of entity, such as journal policies, institutional policies, and national public policies. Additionally, many works analyze individual national contexts (e.g., De Filippo & Sastrón-Toledo, 2023;Manco, 2023;Rezende & Falgueras, 2020). While studies comparing policies across countries and/or regions do exist (e.g., Albornoz et al, 2018;Lasthiotakis et al, 2015;Manco, 2022b;Morais et al, 2021), they are only marginally represented in the peer-reviewed literature.…”

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The neglect of equity and inclusion in open science policies of Europe and the Americas

Chtena,

Alperin,

Morales

et al. 2023

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National, international, and organizational Open Science (OS) policies are being formulated to improve and accelerate research through increased transparency, collaboration, and better access to scientific knowledge. Yet, there is mounting concern that OS policies—which are predicated on narrow understandings of openness, accessibility, and objectivity—do not effectively capture the ethos of OS and particularly its goal of making science more collaborative, inclusive, and socially engaged. This study explores how OS is conceptualized in emerging OS policies and to what extent notions of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and public participation are reflected in policy guidelines and recommendations. We use a qualitative document research approach to critically analyze 52 OS policy documents published between January 2020 and December 2022 in Europe and the Americas. Our results show that OS policies overwhelmingly focus on making research outputs publicly accessible, neglecting to advance the two aspects of OS that hold the key to achieving an inclusive and inclusive scientific culture—namely, EDI and public participation. While these concepts are often mentioned and even embraced in OS policy documents, concrete guidance on how they can be promoted in practice is overwhelmingly lacking. Rather than advancing the openness of scientific findings first and promoting EDI and public participation efforts second, we argue that incentives and guidelines must be provided and implemented concurrently to advance the OS movement's stated goal of making science open to all.

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“…Another interesting source of information are policy documents that show how scientific research impacts areas related to decision making. In addition to the mentions collected on platforms such as Altmetric.com, the recent creation of Overton [47] allow us to delve into this new area of research impact [48]. Analysing these different types of attention or influence, researchers such as Torres-Salinas and Romero [46] consider four dimensions: social, political, media and educational.…”

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Measuring the Impact and Influence of Scientific Activity in the Humanities and Social Sciences

2023

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Scientific activity in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) presents special characteristics that require the use of various sources and methodologies to adequately assess its impact and influence on both academic and non-academic audiences. This study aims to explore the validity of traditional and alternative information sources for the analysis of the characteristics of HSS research and its academic impact and influence (considering social, media, informative and political influence). It is also intended to highlight the differences between Humanities (H) and Social Sciences (SS) and analyse the variables that determine the different types of impact and influence of research in each of them. The following sources of information are used: Web of Science, conCIENCIA (institutional database), Google Scholar, Unpaywall, Altmetric.com and Overton, focused on the study of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The results obtained show that institutional sources make local research visible, which has high percentages of open access. The usefulness of alternative sources to measure social, media, informative and political influence is verified, since HSS publications have an important number of mentions. Significant differences are observed between H and SS in terms of publication coverage (higher in H in the institutional database), language (more Spanish in H), open access (higher percentages in SS) and impact measured through conCIENCIA (the greatest number of documents with a high impact is found in H). In addition, the influence on non-academic audiences is increased by the international orientation of research, the greater academic impact, the participation of SS centres and the immediacy of publications. This study is a starting point for future research, as it explores several tools and data sources to analyse the influence of HSS research on different audiences. A comprehensive analysis will also facilitate the proposal of new metrics applied to the HSS assessment, highlighting its importance for society as a whole.

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Influence of research on open science in the public policy sphere

Cited by 8 publications

References 60 publications

Opening science to society: how to progress societal engagement into (open) science policies

Opening science to society: how to progress societal engagement into (open) science policies

The neglect of equity and inclusion in open science policies of Europe and the Americas

Measuring the Impact and Influence of Scientific Activity in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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