We’re transforming research systems and cultures

Ensuring that we have the evidence we need to realise the full potential of research.

Unlocking the potential of the US$ 3 trillion invested globally in research.

RoRI aims to unlock more of the potential of the US$ 3 trillion invested globally in research every year. By turning the tools of research back on itself, RoRI generates data and analysis to improve how we fund, practice, evaluate and communicate research.

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Building a Strategic Brain for UK Research

At UCL, Stian Westlake set out how analytics and experimentation can strengthen UK research funding

NWO shares first-hand experience of publishing on MetaROR

Colleagues from NWO’s Open Science NL share insights into publishing with our open review platform for metaresearch

Recordings from Metascience 2025 Plenary Sessions now available

Catch up on the big conversations shaping the future of…

Democratising funding evaluation can slash the time it takes to deliver a final decision by over 50%

A new RoRI study with the Volkswagen Foundation shows how…

PLOS Biology joins MetaROR as a partner journal

A new step forward in making metaresearch publishing faster, more…

Call for participants to co-create a transparency tool for funders

The BIH QUEST Center is looking for non-commercial funders of…

Current Projects

Through its flagship projects, RoRI brings together organisations and people who want to change research for the better, creating space for exchange and collaboration.

Matthew

A study of cumulative advantages in funding allocation

Narratives

The uses and evaluation of researchers’ narrative CVs

Criteria

Exploring gender inequality in research funding

AFIRE

Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation

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RoRI’s Impact

Research on Research Institute Impact report
January 2023 – June 2025

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Resources

Through articles, reports, working papers, experiments and practical tools, RoRI aims to supply the evidence and data that people and organisations need to change research for the better. All RoRI publications and resources are openly available to everyone.

Partners

RoRI has 19 core partners from 13 countries, who are responsible for the co-design and delivery of the RoRI programme

About

In 2019, we founded RoRI on a simple idea: that the challenges of transforming research systems need more robust, systematic and comparative evidence.