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Research evaluation in social sciences and humanities: Reforming research assessment

RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists on various topics of research evaluation and research policy with a special focus on the social sciences, humanities and the arts (SSH).

ENRESSH/EvalHum and its RESSH conference has been at the forefront of rethinking and improving research assessments for more than a decade by acting as a platform of scientific and policy exchange and empirical inquiry. The RESSH25 conference goes therefore back to its roots and links explicitly to the growing research assessment reform movement.

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Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2025)

Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems to track research and assist the scientific community with applications such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The 2nd Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and making-use-of scientific language and Research Knowledge Graphs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2025 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2025 to be held in Portoroz, Slovenia in June 2025. The workshop consists of a keynote speaker as well as presentations and posters of accepted papers.

In addition, the workshop offers three shared tasks:

• MESD: Metadata Extraction from Scholarly Documents
• FoRC: Field of Research Classification
• ReadMe2KG: Github ReadMe to Knowledge

Participants can sign up for one or more (sub-)tasks. Automated evaluations of submitted systems are done through the Codalab platform.

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Research Integrity, Power Dynamics and Safe Institutional Culture:
ENRIO 2025 Congress on Research Integrity Practice

The ENRIO 2025 Congress in Ljubljana will continue the newly established series of biennial events addressing research integrity practice (RI) and the development of responsible research in Europe. ENRIO 2025 is organised by the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The Congress is aimed at all experts in research integrity and research ethics, RI officers and practitioners, members of ethics and investigation committees, representatives of research funding organisations and sponsors, and all interested and involved in the enhancement and sustainable implementation of good RI practices and policies.

Thematically, the Congress will emphasise power dynamics in research and institutional responsibility to foster an open, safe and inclusive research environment as a foundation for RI in everyday practice. In a broader global context, this also implies the recognition of fairness, equity and diversity as essential components of RI, as outlined in the Cape Town Statement of 2022. Contributions will reflect the range of challenges, as well as practical and emerging solutions for prevention and awareness raising.

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