What is counted can be rewarded: the OADO indicator

WHY? Time to reward Open Science
2023: The Council of the European Union
2022: COARA Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment Union
2012: San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

HOW? The OADO and the Weighted-OADO
A person-centered indicator that consists of the:
• Research factor indicating the degree of OA articles and OD in research.
• Communication factor indicating the degree of OO in communication activities.

WHAT? The OADO
• Weights a and b that are used to give more emphasis -if needed- either to the research, or the communication factor.
• Developed and customized to the needs of Elsevier’s RIMS Pure.
• Assign a dataset to a publication.

WHAT? The Weighted-OADO
• Takes into consideration the differences in Open Science (OS) practice of a researcher in
relation to their peers from their own discipline.
• A means to recognize the degree of OS and it is calculated at the hierarchical level one
wants to operationalize it: Center, Department , Faculty, Institute, Country.

• Greater than one (>1): the researcher is more open than the Department Average OADO.
• Equal to one (=1): the researcher performs exactly as the Department Average OADO.
• Less than one (<1): the researcher is less open than the Department Average OADO