What is MyResearchFolio?
MyResearchFolio aims to provide a customisable and evidence-informed platform for researchers to present their diverse activities, outputs, and achievements in a structured yet flexible manner. The service aligns with the evolving landscape of responsible research assessment, supporting recognition of qualitative contributions alongside quantitative indicators.
It is grounded in a re-engineering process that included a landscape analysis of existing platforms and leverages emerging frameworks—particularly those developed by the Horizon Europe project OPUS—to reflect contemporary values in research assessment, especially the importance of Open Science.
Mission
The mission of MyResearchFolio is to empower researchers and institutions with a dynamic, inclusive, and transparent platform that showcases the full breadth of researchers' contributions to science, education, innovation, and society.
At its core, MyResearchFolio seeks to redefine how research achievements are recorded, understood, and assessed, moving beyond narrow, metric-based evaluation systems. It promotes a holistic, Open Science-aware, and responsible approach to research assessment, recognising that impactful research comes in many forms—often interdisciplinary, collaborative, and societal in nature.
Champion Inclusivity and Diversity of Contributions
MyResearchFolio is built to reflect the richness and variety of researchers’ work—whether through publications, data sharing, teaching, mentoring, societal engagement, or policy influence. It values both traditional and non-traditional outputs, ensuring all forms of research-related work can be acknowledged and rewarded.
Enable Responsible Research Assessment
The platform aligns with global movements (e.g. DORA, CoARA, UNESCO Open Science Recommendation) that call for research assessment reform. By combining qualitative narratives with relevant, contextual indicators, MyResearchFolio supports evaluators in making fair, meaningful assessments of researcher performance—especially across diverse disciplines and career stages.
Adapt to Disciplinary and Institutional Needs
One size does not fit all in research assessment. MyResearchFolio is designed to be flexible and customizable, catering to the unique contexts of various research fields, institutions, and national systems.
Foster Interoperability and Innovation
Through integration with key data sources such as ORCID and OpenAIRE Graph, and plans to expand its data ecosystem, MyResearchFolio is committed to building a connected, open infrastructure. This supports researchers in managing their digital identity and research visibility across systems and platforms.
Enable Responsible Research Assessment
The platform aligns with global movements (e.g. DORA, CoARA, UNESCO Open Science Recommendation) that call for research assessment reform. By combining qualitative narratives with relevant, contextual indicators, MyResearchFolio supports evaluators in making fair, meaningful assessments of researcher performance—especially across diverse disciplines and career stages.
Promote Researcher Agency and Control
Researchers should have ownership over how their contributions are represented. MyResearchFolio provides tools for researchers to curate, explain, and contextualize their work, offering both automatic data integration and manual input features.
A Transformative Vision
Ultimately, MyResearchFolio’s mission is transformative: it envisions a future where researcher profiles are not just lists of outputs, but rich, contextual narratives of scholarly journeys—where quality, openness, collaboration, and societal value are recognised equally alongside academic excellence.
By supporting this transition, MyResearchFolio contributes to shaping a more inclusive, transparent, and impactful global research culture.
How MyResearchFolio Supports Open Science?
MyResearchFolio contributes to building a more transparent, inclusive, and collaborative research ecosystem, where Open Science is not just encouraged—but embedded, measured, and rewarded.
Integration of Open Science Pillar
MyResearchFolio includes Open Science as a core pillar, alongside with Research, Education, and Valorisation. This ensures that Open Science is not treated as an optional add-on, but as a central and visible dimension of a researcher’s contributions.
Dedicated Open Science Section
A dedicated section of the researcher profile highlights Open Science activities such as open access publishing, pre-prints, open-source software, data and protocol sharing, open peer review, and citizen science. These practices are made visible and valued as integral contributions to responsible and transparent research.
Narrative CV and Open Science Context
The Narrative CV module allows researchers to describe how and why they engage in Open Science, offering space for reflection on the rationale behind making outputs openly accessible. This qualitative element ensures Open Science practices are not reduced to box-ticking, but understood in their context and intent.
Recognition of Non-Traditional Outputs
MyResearchFolio recognizes and elevates non-traditional outputs—such as preprints, datasets, software, workflows, and multimedia—as legitimate and impactful research contributions. These outputs are often at the heart of Open Science but undervalued in traditional systems.
Data Integration with Open Platforms
MyResearchFolio integrates with OpenAIRE Graph, a key open infrastructure that indexes a wide range of Open Science outputs and links between projects, publications, and data. This ensures that Open Science outputs are automatically captured and highlighted.
By embedding Open Science in the structure of the profile and linking it to broader research impact and career development, MyResearchFolio helps drive a cultural shift in how research is assessed—moving away from narrow, closed, publication-centric models toward more collaborative, transparent, and equitable approaches.
Explore all features
MyResearchFolio offers a flexible, comprehensive platform designed to showcase the full range of researchers’ contributions, integrating both qualitative and quantitative elements to support responsible, Open Science-aware research assessment.
Enables researchers to describe their contributions across four dimensions—knowledge generation, people development, research community, and broader society—supporting qualitative, contextualised assessment.
Offers a visual, chronological overview of a researcher's career milestones and activities, with full flexibility for users to define the time span, structure the timeline as they wish, and highlight the periods and events most relevant to their work.
Showcases a wide variety of research products, including publications, preprints, datasets, and software, with the option to provide narrative context and explanation.
Highlights key Open Science practices such as open access publishing, pre-prints, open-source software, data and protocol sharing, open peer review, and citizen science engagement.
Captures the societal and economic value of research through examples of impact beyond academia, including policy, innovation, and real-world problem solving.
Documents teaching, supervision, and capacity-building efforts across career stages.
Automatically imports trusted data on education, affiliations, research outputs, and networks from open, authoritative sources.
Gives researchers full control to add, update, and contextualise their profile content, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
Allows manual additions or edits of contributions within MyResearchFolio to be optionally synchronized back to the researcher’s ORCID profile, ensuring up-to-date and consistent information across platforms.
Includes responsible use of relevant metrics and indicators, along with tracking of the researcher’s fields of science (FoS) throughout their career, to provide meaningful quantitative context alongside qualitative narratives.
Who is it for?
Individual Researchers
Who want to comprehensively showcase their diverse contributions to research, education, Open Science, and societal impact in a customizable and dynamic profile.
Research Institutions and Universities
That are seeking tools to support fair, transparent, and responsible assessment of their staff and students across disciplines and career stages.
Research Funders
That are aiming to evaluate applicants and grantees using a richer, more holistic set of criteria that go beyond traditional metrics.
Collaborators and Networks
Who want to explore researchers’ work, expertise, and contributions in a detailed and engaging way to foster partnerships.
How your profile is created
MyResearchFolio is designed to evolve with the diverse needs of research communities, offering flexible profile customization, seamless data integration, and responsible metrics to transform complex career trajectories into meaningful, context-aware narratives that support fair and inclusive research assessment.
1. Initialisation
MyResearchFolio is built on the OpenAIRE Graph, one of the world’s largest collections of open research data. This extensive resource gathers information from over 2,000 trusted providers, including repositories, publishers, research systems, and scholarly services such as Crossref, DOAJ, DOAB, ORCID, DataCite, Software Heritage.
The OpenAIRE Graph goes beyond merely aggregating data, it refines and enriches it using advanced automated processes. Text mining and AI algorithms validate the data, remove duplicates, and extract critical information from OA full-text publications. This includes details such as funding acknowledgments and links to related datasets, ensuring that the data is accurate, interconnected, and actionable for the researcher.
For more information on the graph’s construction, click here.
During the initialisation process, MyResearchFolio integrates data directly from ORCID, automatically importing key information such as education, employment, and qualifications to help researchers quickly build their profile. When users manually add or update information within MyResearchFolio, they also have the option to synchronise selected entries back to their ORCID profile, ensuring consistency across platforms. All imported and manually added content appears seamlessly within the researcher’s profile, clearly marked and editable for full control and transparency.
2. Customisation
MyResearchFolio offers robust customization features, enabling research institutions, communities, and disciplines to tailor researcher profiles to their specific needs, values, and assessment criteria. From defining relevant indicators to selecting field-specific templates and narrative modules, MyResearchFolio ensures each profile reflects the unique context of the researcher. Customization is managed through an intuitive admin interface, allowing to configure settings across areas such as:
1. Custom Timeline Configuration
Define custom time periods and structure the interactive timeline to reflect milestones, projects, and phases most relevant to the researcher’s career.
Customization of Look and Feel
Communities can personalize the visual identity of their gateway, ensuring it reflects their unique branding and aesthetics. This includes:
- Modifying layouts and themes.
- Customizing logos, colors, and fonts to match organizational branding.
- Creating a user-friendly, visually cohesive interface.
Additional Pages with Community Content
CONNECT supports the addition of customized pages to showcase unique content, such as:
- Open Science policies.
- Guidelines for best practices in Open Science.
- Community news, events, or updates.
These pages allow communities to embed their priorities and values directly into the gateway, creating a resource that serves as more than just a repository.
External Plugin Integration
CONNECT enables the integration of external plugins to extend the functionality of the gateway. Examples include:
- Analytics tools for tracking engagement.
- Visualization plugins for displaying data in innovative ways.
- Additional tools tailored to specific community workflows.
If required, OpenAIRE can collaborate with communities to embed their own plugins, ensuring seamless functionality and a customized experience.
OpenAIRE CONNECT offers extensive customization options to tailor gateways to the specific needs of research communities. Community curators can define relevance criteria for research products, ensuring that only pertinent outputs are included. This customization is achieved through the admin tool, which allows curators to set parameters such as subject areas, keywords, author affiliations, and funding information. By applying these criteria, the system automatically filters the OpenAIRE Graph to present a curated subset of data that aligns with the community's focus. This process ensures that each CONNECT Gateway provides a focused and relevant resource for its community.
Custom Timeline Configuration
Define custom time periods and structure the interactive timeline to reflect milestones, projects, and phases most relevant to the researcher’s career.
Profile Structure and Display Preferences
Select which sections are included in the profile and determine how information is displayed, allowing flexibility based on institutional or disciplinary requirements.
Discipline-Specific Templates and Narrative Modules
Apply tailored templates and curated narrative prompts that reflect the norms, outputs, and values of different fields of research.
Manual Addition of Key Information
Add important career details or contributions not automatically sourced, ensuring nothing essential is left out of the profile.
Predefined Lists for Societal and Economic Impact
Access and use predefined descriptors and categories to document the researcher’s contributions to broader societal and economic outcomes.
Synchronization Settings with ORCID
Configure two-way syncing so that manually added entries in MyResearchFolio can be pushed to the researcher’s ORCID profile, ensuring data consistency across platforms.
Access MyResearchFolio
If you're interested in exploring MyResearchFolio further, please fill out the contact form to request a demo. As the service is currently in its pilot phase, we welcome early feedback and engagement from institutions, communities, and individual researchers.
