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1. Working Paper2026Open Access

   MEECSE: Monitoring the implementation of Enabling Environments for Citizen Science & Societal Engagement practices(opens in a new tab)

   

   Gold, Margaret; Costas, Rodrigo; Wehn, Uta

   The MEECSE project furthers the NPOS Ambition2030 and rolling agenda 'towards societal engagement and participation' by supporting the implementation of effective actions to establish enabling environments for Citizen Science & Societal Engagement (CS&SE) practices. The core activities in the project are to: identify ways that enabling environments for CS&SE are being implemented, identify barriers to implementation, develop and test indicators for monitoring progress and effectiveness of enabling actions identify related CS&SE impact indicators, and seek integration of both indicator-sets in OS monitoring frameworks, thereby strengthening the evidence base for CS&SE practices within Open Science.

   DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21700700Citizen sciencePublic engagement
2. Working Paper2025Open Access

   The multiversatory: fostering diversity and inclusion in research information by means of a multiple-perspective observatory(opens in a new tab)

   

   Rafols, Ismael; Costas, Rodrigo; Bezuidenhout, Louise; Brasil, André

   For science and technology to contribute to social justice, scientometrics analyses need to be able to produce descriptions that are appropriate to specific contexts and values. Given that the participation of stakeholders in the analyses is crucial for these perspectives to be realized, this requires research information analyses that are “open”. In this paper, we propose that this “openness” in research information concerns several dimensions. In the first place, research information should be open in the sense of being transparent and accessible. Second, research information should be open in the sense of being inclusive and diverse, which includes two dimensions: that stakeholders can actually use it, and that the contents include different types of knowledge. Third, the research information should be provided in forms that empower interrogation by stakeholders, so that they can retrieve and construct the descriptions of science and technology that are more appropriate for their context. This last step implies efforts to make visible many scientific contributions from the global south which are currently invisible. We call this vision “the multiversatory”: an approach to the observation of science that facilitates pluralistic analyses of the knowledge created across a variety of places and contexts, the pluriverse.

   DOI: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/dn2axdiversityevaluationinclusioninformationmonitoringobservatoryresearch