Why ONE exists
Why ONE exists
Research activity is broader than what traditional systems capture. ONE helps turn that activity into structured, contextual evidence that researchers, institutions, and funders can use responsibly.
Capture your contributions once. Reuse them throughout your career.
Make your contributions visible, contextualized, and reusable throughout your career.
In one sentence
ONE helps researchers, institutions, and funders transform research activity into structured, contextual evidence that can be reused across careers, governance, and responsible assessment workflows.
The problem
Research assessment is changing.
Research assessment is changing. Institutions, funders, and researchers are increasingly expected to move beyond narrow indicators and recognize a broader range of contributions.
But principles alone are not enough. Researchers still face fragmented profiles, repeated reporting demands, invisible contributions, and limited control over how their work is represented.
ONE was created to address this gap: a research evidence infrastructure that helps capture, structure, contextualize, and reuse research contributions across careers, institutions, and assessment systems.
The problem is not a lack of data. The problem is that research activity is still fragmented across disconnected systems, narrow indicators, and repeated reporting workflows.
Why existing approaches are insufficient
Current evaluation systems often see only part of the picture.
Research assessment has often relied on limited and easily available signals. Citation counts, publication counts, and journal-level indicators can be useful in some contexts, but they cannot represent the full diversity of research activity.
They also require careful interpretation. Fields differ. Career stages differ. Publication and citation practices differ. A signal that is meaningful in one context can be misleading in another.
ONE was created to support a different approach: contextual, multidimensional, and transparent.
The idea behind ONE
ONE turns research activity into structured evidence.
ONE helps researchers build a living evidence record of their contributions. This evidence can be maintained over time, interpreted in context, and reused across career, institutional, and assessment workflows.
For researchers, this means less repeated reporting and more visibility for contributions that are often difficult to show.
For institutions, it means a richer understanding of their research communities.
For funders and agencies, it means better support for responsible, contextual, and multidimensional assessment.
Capture your contributions once. Reuse them throughout your career.
How the framework works
A framework for visible, contextual, and reusable research evidence
The implemented ONE Framework organises research activity into contextual indicators, dimensions, and three complementary axes:
This structure allows evidence to be interpreted beyond single metrics and beyond journal-based proxies.
Context matters
Evidence only becomes meaningful in context.
ONE uses contextual interpretation to reduce misleading comparisons. Researchers are assessed within appropriate cohorts, considering field and years of scientific activity as a proxy for career stage.
This allows the platform to interpret research activity relative to comparable peers rather than relying only on absolute counts.
ONE is not a ranking system. The ONE Index is a contextual reference point that helps interpret research activity relative to field and career-stage peers. It should be read alongside the underlying dimensions and indicators, not used as a standalone judgement of quality.
For researchers: your profile becomes your evidence layer.
Your ONE profile is designed to become a living record of your research career.
It helps you make your contributions visible, contextualized, and reusable across applications, CVs, evaluations, reporting exercises, and career transitions.
Instead of rebuilding your evidence from scratch each time, you can maintain a structured record that evolves with your career.
Explore ONE for researchersFor institutions: understand research communities beyond publications.
ONE helps institutions map research activity across multiple dimensions, not only through publication and citation indicators.
Institutions can use structured evidence to identify strengths, understand communities, support responsible assessment reforms, and reduce repetitive data collection.
Explore ONE for institutionsFor funders & agencies: support responsible assessment with contextual evidence.
Funders and agencies need evidence systems that support fairer interpretation of research activity, reviewer discovery, programme monitoring, and responsible assessment practices.
ONE provides a structured evidence layer that can help funders and agencies move beyond narrow signals and interpret contributions in context.
Explore ONE for funders & agenciesWhat ONE is not
ONE is not a ranking system.
ONE is not a ranking system. The ONE Index is a contextual reference point that helps interpret research activity relative to field and career-stage peers. It should be read alongside the underlying dimensions and indicators, not used as a standalone judgement of quality.
ONE is also not a CRIS and not a bibliometrics-only tool. It is a research evidence infrastructure designed to connect data, context, and reusable evidence.
Start with your evidence record
Find or claim your profile, review your contributions, and begin building a structured evidence record that can support your research career over time.
See how ONE differs from CRIS/RIMS platforms, bibliometric analytics tools, open metadata dashboards, rankings, and outcomes reporting workflows.