Monitoring of open science and research
This section presents the results of the national open science and research monitoring in Finland as well as information on the development of open access publications and total cost of open access and publication to Finnish institutions.
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- Degrees and levels of openness: The image summarises monitoring results categorised by organisation types (universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes). This enables examining open science practices at an aggregate level.
- Publications: Images 1–3 include data on open access publications more extensively than what is used in monitoring. The results for publications-related quantitative indicators are available in the Survey image.
- Survey: The image displays responses to the monitoring survey, organised by specific questions.
- Costs: The image presents total costs of open access and publication to Finnish institutions. Cost data is not included in the scoring of the national open science and research monitoring.
Individual organisation-level results for openness level and degrees are not displayed on this page. For detailed information, users can explore the organisation-specific page, accessible via the Organisations button on the Research.fi home page. The questions and answers in the monitoring 2026, 2024 and 2022 are also available on this page.
The implementation of the 2026 monitoring differed from previous years. Organisations that had achieved degree 5 in all areas in 2024 were not invited to participate. For these organisations, openness level 5 is displayed as their 2026 result on the Open science and research tab on their organisation-specific pages. Degrees of openness are not displayed for these organisations.
Organisations that had reached degree 5 in all but one area were invited to answer questions only on the remaining area. All other organisations were invited to complete the full monitoring survey.
Monitoring
The objective of the monitoring of open science and research is to support the development of open science and research in organisations, support and verify the achievement of the objectives agreed in the Declaration and policies for open science and research, and form an overall view of the state of openness in Finnish science and research.
The monitoring utilizes as much available, comparable data collected in the National Research Information Hub as possible. The monitoring also involves collecting data using a survey. The role of the survey as a source of monitoring data will decrease as more data accumulate in the National Research Information Hub. Initially, however, the survey plays a key role.
In 2026, monitoring was conducted for the third time, with the previous rounds taking place in 2022 and 2024. The results of the monitoring are published in Research.fi and the survey data are stored for public open access.
Indicators
The monitoring examines the development of open science and research practices from the perspective of different areas (publishing, data and infrastructure, education and culture for open scholarship) and ways of promoting them (policy documents, services, collaboration and outputs). In this way, it will be possible to examine the areas and practices and the links between them when examining the results of monitoring. All these aspects were included in monitoring in 2024 and 2026.
The monitoring model focuses on indicators that can be developed and used nationally. In this way, it is possible to produce high-quality and balanced information about the Finnish research community.
In addition to the quantitative monitoring data of the National Research Information Hub, a qualitative open science and research survey is conducted every two years. This applies especially to the monitoring of the development of services, collaboration, policy documents, research assessment and culture of open scholarship.
