Crossref has released an enhanced global dashboard designed to monitor and improve the completeness of open research information. The tool provides a comprehensive view of metadata coverage and highlights individual organizations’ contributions to documenting the process and sharing research outputs. It enables research-performing, funding, and publishing organizations to identify gaps in their open research information and supports broader efforts such as the Barcelona Declaration for Open Research Information, which promotes transparent stewardship of the scholarly record through open metadata.
The updated Participation Reports now cover all Crossref members and resource types registered with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), representing more than 175 million records from organizations in 163 countries. Each of Crossref’s 23,000 members has access to a customized dashboard that visualizes metadata contributions, displays coverage of key information, and provides a gap report indicating where records can be enriched. This transparency helps organizations strengthen the accuracy and discoverability of their research outputs while contributing to a more open scholarly ecosystem.
The dashboards display coverage across eleven key metadata elements—such as references, abstracts, author identifiers (ORCID iDs), institutional affiliations (ROR IDs), Open Funder Registry IDs, funding award numbers, text-mining URLs, licence URLs, Similarity Check URLs (for text-based plagiarism checking) and the presence of a Crossmark policy. Together, these data points provide critical context for research outputs, including journal articles, datasets, grants, books, conference papers, and other scholarly materials.
This initiative reflects Crossref’s continued commitment to building open scholarly infrastructure and advancing metadata completeness as a foundation for trust, accessibility, and global visibility in research communication. By equipping members with actionable insights and public transparency, the new dashboard seeks a more connected and inclusive open research environment that benefits authors, institutions, and the wider scientific community.
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