The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and OpenAIRE have announced new steps to deepen their collaboration, building on a successful track record of joint projects and initiatives. The strengthened partnership reflects shared values, complementary expertise, and a commitment to advancing openness and reform in research information and assessment.
In recent years, CWTS and OpenAIRE have worked together on European projects such as PathOS and GraspOS, as well as initiatives including the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). Building on this foundation, the organizations will now pursue three key goals:
• Advancing open research information and promoting its use to support responsible research assessment.
• Improving quality and completeness of open research information.
• Co-developing strategies to support stakeholders in the European research landscape, particularly through advanced research intelligence based on State of the art open analytics.
Ludo Waltman, Scientific Director of CWTS, emphasized that intensifying collaboration with OpenAIRE represents an important step in the transition to open research information. He noted that CWTS is increasingly moving from proprietary data sources to open alternatives, both in its research and in the analytics it provides to stakeholders, and highlighted promising opportunities for joint work with OpenAIRE.
Natalia Manola, CEO of OpenAIRE, remarked that CWTS has been a leading force in responsible research analytics and in shaping how research intelligence can better serve science and society. She explained that the collaboration combines CWTS’s expertise in analytics and methodology with OpenAIRE’s open scholarly communication infrastructure and knowledge graph. According to Manola, this partnership will help build the foundations for an open research intelligence infrastructure that is transparent, trusted, Community‑led, and ready to explore new frontiers in AI-driven research, analytics, and Evidence‑based decision making. She added that the collaboration aligns with OpenAIRE’s 2026–2028 strategy, where Research Intelligence as Public Infrastructure is a central priority.
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