Unveiling the Ecosystem of Science

The project

The ECOSCI project focuses on how scientists collaborate with each other and engage with society. The main goal is to deepen our understanding on what is expected of a scientist and how they distribute different tasks and organized their work. The purpose of the project is to surpass current evaluation schemes which consider research careers as homogeneous and explore novel and more nuanced ways in which research performance can be assessed. For this, we propose a valuation model (still under development) conformed of three main pillars:

  1. Evaluative dimensions. We consider five dimensions as key factors to value the research performance of individuals. These are the following: 1) scientific engagement, 2) social engagement, 3) capacity building, 4) trajectory, and 5) open practices.

  2. Personal features. These are characteristics of special interest for policy makers which in some cases may even individuals’ opportunity to perform such as language, gender, nationality or ethnicity.

  3. External factors. Here confounding effects derived form individuals’ context such as work environment, institutional logics or national policies are considered.

Team members

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia – PI (Fellow). Marie Sklodowska Curie Experienced Researcher from the LEaDing Fellows Programme working at Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (TU Delft). Social scientist and bibliometrics expert. Learn more about Nicolas

Tina Nane - Supervisor. Assistant professor at Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (TU Delft) and visiting researcher at CWTS (Leiden University. Member of the Applied Probability research group. Learn more about Tina

Rodrigo Costas. Senior researcher at CWTS (Leiden University). Rodrigo’s research focuses on the development of new social media metrics (altmetrics), new scientometric applications at the individual-level and the study of funding acknowledgements. Learn more about Rodrigo

Thed N. van Leeuwen. Senior researcher and co-leading the research theme on open scholarship at CWTS (Leiden University). Thed’s research focuses on the various aspects of open scholarship, as well as on the research assessment of scholarly activity in the social sciences, the humanities, and law. He is co-editor of the OUP journal Research Evaluation. Learn more about Thed

Unveiling the Ecosystem of Science

The project

The ECOSCI project focuses on how scientists collaborate with each other and engage with society. The main goal is to deepen our understanding on what is expected of a scientist and how they distribute different tasks and organized their work. The purpose of the project is to surpass current evaluation schemes which consider research careers as homogeneous and explore novel and more nuanced ways in which research performance can be assessed. For this, we propose a valuation model (still under development) conformed of three main pillars:

  1. Evaluative dimensions. We consider five dimensions as key factors to value the research performance of individuals. These are the following: 1) scientific engagement, 2) social engagement, 3) capacity building, 4) trajectory, and 5) open practices.

  2. Personal features. These are characteristics of special interest for policy makers which in some cases may even individuals’ opportunity to perform such as language, gender, nationality or ethnicity.

  3. External factors. Here confounding effects derived form individuals’ context such as work environment, institutional logics or national policies are considered.

Team members

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia – PI (Fellow). Marie Sklodowska Curie Experienced Researcher from the LEaDing Fellows Programme working at Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (TU Delft). Social scientist and bibliometrics expert. Learn more about Nicolas

Tina Nane - Supervisor. Assistant professor at Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics (TU Delft) and visiting researcher at CWTS (Leiden University. Member of the Applied Probability research group. Learn more about Tina

Rodrigo Costas. Senior researcher at CWTS (Leiden University). Rodrigo’s research focuses on the development of new social media metrics (altmetrics), new scientometric applications at the individual-level and the study of funding acknowledgements. Learn more about Rodrigo

Thed N. van Leeuwen. Senior researcher and co-leading the research theme on open scholarship at CWTS (Leiden University). Thed’s research focuses on the various aspects of open scholarship, as well as on the research assessment of scholarly activity in the social sciences, the humanities, and law. He is co-editor of the OUP journal Research Evaluation. Learn more about Thed