A black and white image of a butterfly on a flower with a colored overlay. The PLOS logo is displayed in the top left corner. A blue text box reads: "Explore Open Science Indicators. Our interactive dashboard brings open research-sharing signals together in one place, helping you explore how openness is developing across the research landscape and where progress is emerging.

Explore research‑sharing trends with our new interactive Open Science Indicators dashboard prototype.

See how practices like study registration, data, code, protocol sharing and preprints vary across fields, countries, funders and organizations.

🔗 Explore #OpenScience Indicators: plos.io/3PFvT3h

@plosbiology.org is formalizing its long‑standing practice of asking authors to share research code, introducing a mandatory #code‑sharing policy and clarifying what is meant by code sharing.

Learn more and find guidance on best practice: plos.io/4reyX3v

Formalizing our commitment to code sharing In support of open science, PLOS Biology routinely asks authors to openly share their research code before publication. We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory code sharing policy and…

In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.

We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #CodeSharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.

Can we measure research in a more meaningful way? A quick look at the 2025 PLOS Open Science Indicators dataset Why measuring open research matters Open access publishing is sometimes mistakenly thought of as the be-all-and-end-all of open research (or open science). Bu

Great to see @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social using the PLOS Open Science Indicators to analyze open research practices across their institution.

Insightful work from @yozkan.bsky.social using our dataset with @dataseerai.bsky.social.

A great post from @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social exploring the link between #openscience and research integrity. The authors highlight a recent PLOS Open Science Indicators (OSI) dataset as a tool used to help assess this relationship.
See the OSI dataset: plos.io/3ZFdjYL
Read the findings ⬇️

There’s more to research than citations: Understanding knowledge-sharing practices with Open Science Indicators Open science practices and open science monitoring have an important role to play in our ongoing efforts to recognize a broader range of research contributions. After many new developments,…

We are excited to see Science journals join the movement of using Open Science Indicators (Metrics) to advance open practices, building on the vision we launched in partnership with DataSeer in 2022.

⬇️ Learn more about why OSIs matter and knowledge have we gained from them so far:

A survey of how biology researchers assess credibility when serving on grant and hiring committees Researchers who serve on grant review and hiring committees have to make decisions about the intrinsic value of research in short periods of time, and research impact metrics such Journal Impact…

Biology researchers say credibility matters when serving on grant and hiring committees, but fewer than half feel well-equipped to assess it.

A new @peerj.bsky.social study, co-authored by PLOS colleagues shows opportunities to reform research assessment and strengthen #OpenScience:

Understanding needs and opportunities for open science in Africa and LMICs Explore how PLOS is working with regional partners to advance open science in Africa and LMICs through local collaboration and inclusive publishing models.

“The only way an organization from the Global North can really make an impact and to be inclusive is to collaborate.”

Read key takeaways from our event with TCC Africa in Nairobi, exploring new models for open science: plos.io/48QqFrm

#OpenScience #OpenInfrastructure

Director of Open Research Solutions, @iainhz.bsky.social, shares updates from our Redefining Publishing initiative, exploring how we can redesign publishing to better support #OpenScience and reform #ResearchAssessment ⬇️

Pour la première fois à l’échelle d’un pays entier, la France, une étude indépendante montre que les pratiques de #scienceouverte sont associées à une augmentation des citations.

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In a newly released arXiv preprint, we explore how open science practice like sharing data, code and preprints relate to citation impact in French-authored research over a 3-year period.

Thanks to @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social for highlighting its national importance.

🔗 Read more: plos.io/3Vmykrj

An analysis of the effects of open science indicators on citations in the French Open Science Monitor This study investigates the correlation of citation impact with various open science indicators (OSI) within the French Open Science Monitor (FOSM), a dataset comprising approximately 900,000 publicat...

A new arXiv preprint from Iain Hrynaszkiewicz and Lauren Cadwallader at PLOS with Prof Giovanni Colavizza, explores links between open science practices and citation impact across over 576,000 publications.

🔗 Read the full preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.20747

#OpenScience #OSI #Preprints

This is ground breaking and transformative at the same time!

The ability to capture (and monitor) open science efforts -beyond publications and citations - will make it much easier to demonstrate the impact of research, rather than waving in that general direction and hope it is credible.

Infographic titled 'New open science insights now available.' It features two bar charts comparing the usage of protocols by academic disciplines. The left chart shows the highest usage in medicine, followed by molecular biology and biochemistry, and social sciences. The right chart indicates medicine as the field with the highest study registration, trailed distantly by environmental sciences and agricultural and biological sciences. The caption encourages diving deeper into research with the latest release of Open Science Indicators. The footer notes the data is based on 204 sharing sites with the most published articles as available on OpenAlex.

The latest PLOS Open Science Indicators (OSI) dataset is here! In partnership with @dataseerai.bsky.social, the new dataset includes insights from 166K+ articles. In addition, we explore lessons learned from years of OSI development on The Official PLOS Blog.

📈 plos.io/3ZFdjYL
🔎 plos.io/40N0Oxj

RLUK25 | Indicating leadership – how libraries collaborate to monitor open research YouTube video by ResearchLibrariesUK

📺 #RLUK25 VIDEO | How libraries collaborate to monitor open research

Roundtable feat. Neil Jacobs @ukrepro.bsky.social Etienne Roesch (Reading) @iainhz.bsky.social @jenniad.bsky.social & Radoslaw Pajor (Leicester)

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Integrating OpenAlex metadata to improve Open Science Indicators - The Official PLOS Blog Author: Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS The latest version of the PLOS Open Science Indicators (OSI) dataset extends its coverage to…

In the latest PLOS Open Science Indicators dataset (in collaboration with DataSeer) users can more easily segment results by research topics / disciplines and geography, thanks to integration of OpenAlex metadata. Great to see this much-requested improvement live theplosblog.plos.org/2025/01/inte...

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An analysis of the effects of sharing research data, code, and preprints on citations Calls to make scientific research more open have gained traction with a range of societal stakeholders. Open Science practices include but are not limited to the early sharing of results via preprints...

Our paper exploring the effects of Open Science practices (research data sharing, preprint posting, code sharing) on citations was published after peer review in PLOS ONE last month journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Preprinting correlates with a 20% citation increase; data sharing in a repository 4%

New preprint from PLOS on how researchers assess credibility of scholarly work in the context of committee service.

I’ll be presenting these results at the 4S/EASST meeting in Amsterdam this summer!

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Are you interested in the effects / impact of #openscience? Are you interested in evidence? Then see this excellent resource from the PathOS (Open Science Impact Pathways) EU-funded project pathos-project.eu/os-impact-ev...

Assessing credibility of research is very important but researchers lack tools to do this effectively = opportunities to refocus research assessment on research integrity, rigour and transparency, rather than using proxies for impact. New research from the team at PLOS: doi.org/10.31222/osf...