2025 Volume 35 Issue 1 Pages 3-17
With the development of Open Science (OS), the construction of indicators to monitor researchers' OS practices has become essential. Overseas, dashboards containing these indicators are increasingly being provided, which can be used by universities and other research institutions as research evaluation indicators. This study aims to clarify the domestic needs for the indicators provided by such institutional dashboards. First, librarians (LBs) and research administrators (RAs) were interviewed and qualitatively analysed as users within domestic institutions corresponding to users of dashboards for overseas institutions. Second, we applied the dashboard indicator categories for overseas institutions as a framework for the analysis results, and we analyzed the differences between the needs of LBs and RAs, as well as between the indicators of domestic needs and those provided overseas. For LBs, the use of indicators to monitor OS practices was observed, but there was no need for indicators on the specifics of compliance with the FAIR principles provided overseas. In RAs, the use of indicators for research evaluation was observed, but many issues with their use were also highlighted. Needs specific to Japan included the number of papers written by Japanese language and citations.
