ArticleRoyal Society open science2024
The societal impact of Open Science: a scoping review.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Prioritising measures and interventions to strengthen research reproducibility: a Delphi consultation study.Research integrity and peer review · 2026Article
- Crystallography in Open Science and its open educational resources.Acta crystallographica. Section A, Foundations and advances · 2026Article
- Aligning incentives for open science in biomedical research: Navigating funder and institutional perspectives.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2026Review
- Open Science, Health Data and Epistemic Harms: A Multidisciplinary Reflection.Data science journal · 2026Article
- The economic impact of open science: a scoping review.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- Towards an inclusive Open Science: examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- The academic impact of Open Science: a scoping review.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- The societal impact of Open Science: a scoping review.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- An analysis of the effects of sharing research data, code, and preprints on citations.PloS one · 2024Article
- Open science in energy research.Open research Europe · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
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Abstract
Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research. Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratize research and increase learning and awareness, evidence-based policy-making, the relevance of research to society's problems, and public trust in research. Yet, measuring the societal impact of OS has proven challenging and synthesized evidence of it is lacking. This study fills this gap by systematically scoping the existing evidence of societal impact driven by OS and its various aspects, including Citizen Science (CS), Open Access (OA), Open/FAIR Data (OFD), Open Code/Software and others. Using the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews and searches conducted in Web of Science, Scopus and relevant grey literature, we identified 196 studies that contain evidence of societal impact. The majority concern CS, with some focused on OA, and only a few addressing other aspects. Key areas of impact found are education and awareness, climate and environment, and social engagement. We found no literature documenting evidence of the societal impact of OFD and limited evidence of societal impact in terms of policy, health, and trust in academic research. Our findings demonstrate a critical need for additional evidence and suggest practical and policy implications.
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