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Research evaluation in social sciences and humanities: Reforming research assessment

RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists on various topics of research evaluation and research policy with a special focus on the social sciences, humanities and the arts (SSH).

ENRESSH/EvalHum and its RESSH conference has been at the forefront of rethinking and improving research assessments for more than a decade by acting as a platform of scientific and policy exchange and empirical inquiry. The RESSH25 conference goes therefore back to its roots and links explicitly to the growing research assessment reform movement.

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Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025)

Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems to track research and assist the scientific community with applications such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The 2nd Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and making-use-of scientific language and Research Knowledge Graphs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2025 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2025 to be held in Portoroz, Slovenia in June 2025. The workshop consists of a keynote speaker as well as presentations and posters of accepted papers.

In addition, the workshop offers three shared tasks:

• MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents
• FoRC: Field of Research Classification
• ReadMe2KG: Github ReadMe to Knowledge

Participants can sign up for one or more (sub-)tasks. Automated evaluations of submitted systems are done through the Codalab platform.

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A global gathering for knowledge sharing, community building, and opportunities to define a roadmap of research and intervention priorities to accelerate science

Many scholarly fields conduct descriptive research about the research process. Advocates and reformers have prescriptive ideas about how the research process might be improved. Policymakers, funders, publishers, and other stakeholders enact changes to the social and technical infrastructure of research. All have an interest in whether changes and reforms have their intended effects or unintended consequences that might accelerate or inhibit advancement, translation, and application of research. Together, these researchers and stakeholders are the research and development pipeline for improving the system and practice of research. The Metascience 2025 Conference will bring these communities together to share ideas, evidence, and foster a culture of continuous experimentation and improvement.

With a focus on institutions, innovations, and alliances, Metascience 2025 will explore how metascience can drive change: shaping policy, leveraging new methods and AI, and building longer-term infrastructures for open and effective research.

Metascience 2025 will include a programme of free virtual pre-conference symposia from mid-June, aiming to expand the international conversation on key metascience topics ahead of the conference itself. 

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Reconciliation of research and measurement

The 29th Annual STI-ENID Conference, themed "Reconciliation of Research and Measurement," explores how to bridge divides in methodology, epistemology, and indicator debates while addressing equity and diversity in research culture. Hosted by the University of Bristol, renowned for its commitment to reconciliation and inclusion, the conference fosters critical dialogue on harmonizing diverse perspectives and practices to advance equitable, impactful research.

The 2025 conference will explore themes around reconciling our own research and perspectives with new developments in the field such as: how CoARA is interpreted and implemented; how we can work with a new generation of meta-researchers; and, towards that end, how we can embrace a wider interdisciplinary and methodological tool sets in our a stronger STI-ENID community.

Together, we’ll chart pathways toward more united research systems and a stronger STI-ENID community.

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The 12th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science

Get ready for an inspiring and dynamic exploration of open science at PUBMET2025! The 12th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science is set to take place at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology from September 11–12, 2025 – and you won’t want to miss it!

Research Integrity, Power Dynamics and Safe Institutional Culture:
ENRIO 2025 Congress on Research Integrity Practice

The ENRIO 2025 Congress in Ljubljana will continue the newly established series of biennial events addressing research integrity practice (RI) and the development of responsible research in Europe. ENRIO 2025 is organised by the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The Congress is aimed at all experts in research integrity and research ethics, RI officers and practitioners, members of ethics and investigation committees, representatives of research funding organisations and sponsors, and all interested and involved in the enhancement and sustainable implementation of good RI practices and policies.

Thematically, the Congress will emphasise power dynamics in research and institutional responsibility to foster an open, safe and inclusive research environment as a foundation for RI in everyday practice. In a broader global context, this also implies the recognition of fairness, equity and diversity as essential components of RI, as outlined in the Cape Town Statement of 2022. Contributions will reflect the range of challenges, as well as practical and emerging solutions for prevention and awareness raising.

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30^th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy (NWB 2025)

Over the course of three days, October 29-31, 2025, you will have the opportunity to engage with experts from a variety of fields, including bibliometrics, research policy and library & information science. The aim of the workshop is to integrate bibliometric research with research policy, showcase the latest bibliometric research from the Nordic region and beyond, and strengthen connections between bibliometric research groups and their PhD students.

Important dates:

• Submission of abstracts: March 17 – May 31, 2025.
• Notifications of acceptance: June 20, 2025.
• Registration: July 1 – September 15, 2025.
• Nordic Workshop: October 29 – 31, 2025.

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Save the date: EOSC Symposium 2025

Please mark your calendars for the EOSC Symposium 2025, the largest and most in-demand event on the EOSC calendar. Organised by the EOSC Association for the second consecutive year, the Symposium will take place 03-05 November in Brussels. Check back for details on venue and registration.

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