Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A promotion case awards substantial weight to documented mentoring of early-career researchers.
- Is an instance
A fellowship explicitly recognises sustained peer-review service for the discipline.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An assessment form with no fields for mentoring, peer review or community contributions.
- Not an instance
Reviewers told to give 'extra credit' for service contributions but with no weighting.
Editorial commentary
Process diversity broadens 'what counts' from outputs to activities. The Hong Kong Principles' fourth principle ('acknowledge a broad range of research activities such as peer review and mentoring') is the most explicit articulation. R4RI/narrative CVs are practical implementations: module 'development of others' captures mentoring; module 'wider research community' captures peer review, editorial work and community service. CoARA Commitment 4 likewise embraces process diversity. Implementing it requires reviewers to weight non-output contributions concretely rather than treating them as 'nice to have'.
References
- Moher et al. PLOS Biology, 2020. CoARA Agreement, 2022.
Also known as
Diverse research activities · Activity diversity (assessment)
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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