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The paper behind this work
This registry operationalises the landscaping presented in a preprint from members of the ELIXIR Europe community.
Preprint
Credit, recognition, and reward for non-traditional research outputs
in the Life Sciences
Publication metrics remain the primary academic performance assessment in modern academia, leaving a gap in recognition for impactful non-traditional outputs such as curated datasets, research software, and training materials. Through a mapping of valuable non-traditional outputs illustrated by Life Science examples from ELIXIR Europe, this paper examines the technical solutions and sociological barriers to credit, recognition, and reward — the landscaping this registry hosts as versioned, machine-readable data.
Authors
Gavin Farrell
Eva Alloza
Adel Bouhraoua
Salvador Capella-Gutierrez
Carole Goble
Henning Hermjakob
Maria Makaronidou
Andrew Smith
Shoaib Sufi
Thanasis Vergoulis
Mehdi Zoubiri
Federica Quaglia
Silvio C.E. Tosatto
Citation
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Farrell, G., Alloza, E., Bouhraoua, A., Capella-Gutierrez, S., Goble, C., Hermjakob, H., Smith, A., Sufi, S., Vergoulis, T., Zoubiri, M., Quaglia, F., & Tosatto, S. C. E. (2026). Credit, recognition, and reward for non-traditional research artefacts in the Life Sciences [Preprint]. MetaArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/praxg_v1
10.31222/osf.io/praxg_v1 · 10 March 2026 · MetaArXiv · CC BY-ND 4.0
@misc{farrell2026credit,
author = {Farrell, Gavin and Alloza, Eva and
Bouhraoua, Adel and Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador and
Goble, Carole and Hermjakob, Henning and
Smith, Andrew and Sufi, Shoaib and
Vergoulis, Thanasis and Zoubiri, Mehdi and
Quaglia, Federica and Tosatto, Silvio C. E.},
title = {{Credit, recognition, and reward for
non-traditional research artefacts in the
Life Sciences}},
year = {2026},
month = mar,
publisher = {Center for Open Science},
howpublished = {MetaArXiv preprint},
doi = {10.31222/osf.io/praxg_v1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/praxg_v1}
}Archive
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Every release is deposited in Zenodo with a permanent DOI, so the catalogue can be cited at an exact version and reused from a snapshot that will never change underneath you. The DOI below is the concept DOI — it is stable across all releases and always resolves to the most recent one.
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10.5281/zenodo.22306726What's archived
The registry's primary assets are three curated YAML files. They are the catalogue itself — designed for direct reuse, adaptation to other research domains, and machine consumption — not a by-product of this website.
24artefact types
data/nto_catalogue.ymlEvery artefact type with its explanation, the activities that produce it, real Life Science examples, and the infrastructure that can capture credit for it.
18platforms
data/infrastructure_catalogue.ymlThe normalized registry of credit-capturing platforms referenced by the catalogue, each cross-walked onto the CoARA OI4RRA four-tier architecture.
7initiatives
data/reform_initiatives.ymlThe international research assessment reform initiatives — DORA, CoARA, Hidden REF and others — and what each means for non-traditional outputs.
Supporting software is archived alongside the data, not in place of it. The same snapshot carries site/, the Astro and React application that publishes this catalogue, and scripts/validate_yaml.py, the schema and reference-integrity validator run against every change.
ELIXIR CRU Focus Group
This work is carried out in collaboration with the ELIXIR Europe Credit, Recognition & Usage Focus Group, which brings together the wider community working on these challenges.
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The data behind this site — the output catalogue, infrastructure catalogue, and reform initiatives — is versioned and openly maintained on GitHub. Contributions are welcome.
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