CWTS and OpenAIRE are delighted to announce the next steps we have agreed to take to deepen our relationship and strengthen our collaboration.

In recent years, CWTS and OpenAIRE have collaborated successfully in a range of projects and initiatives. This includes European projects such as PathOS and GraspOS, as well as initiatives aimed at promoting openness of research information and reform of research assessment, in particular the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA).

Recognising our shared values and interests and our complementary expertise, we have agreed to make a joint effort to further develop our collaboration. Therefore, we will work together towards the following goals:

1. Advancing the open research information transition and promoting its use, in support of responsible research assessment.
2. Improving the completeness and quality of open research information.
3. Co-developing new strategies in supporting stakeholders in the European research landscape. In particular by providing advanced research intelligence based on state-of-the-art open research analytics.

Ludo Waltman, Scientific Director of CWTS, adds:

“We look forward to intensifying our collaboration with OpenAIRE. This is an important step in the transition to open research information that we are making at CWTS. We are increasingly moving from proprietary data sources to open alternatives, not only in the research we do but also in the research analytics we provide and in commissioned work we perform for a broad range of stakeholders in the research system. We see promising opportunities for working together with OpenAIRE in these areas.”

Natalia Manola, CEO of OpenAIRE, comments:

“CWTS has been a leading force in responsible research analytics and in shaping how research intelligence can better serve science and society. This collaboration brings together CWTS’s expertise in analytics and methodology with OpenAIRE’s open scholarly communication infrastructure and knowledge graph. Together, we can help build the foundations for open research intelligence infrastructure that is transparent, trusted, community-governed, and ready to explore the new frontiers AI is opening for research, analytics, and evidence-informed decision making. This collaboration reflects the direction of OpenAIRE’s 2026–2028 strategy, where Research Intelligence as a Public Infrastructure is becoming a central priority.”