Facilitate Open Science Training for European 
Research
The Impact of Open Science (OS)
Open Science:
• Offers researchers tools and workflows for 
transparency, reproducibility, dissemination and 
transfer of new knowledge;
• Is an effective tool for research managers to 
transfer knowledge to society, and optimise the 
use and re-use by unforeseen collaborators;
• Offers funders a better return on investment (ROI) 
for public funding, and underpins the EU Digital 
Agenda by measurably contributing to economic 
growth. 
Open Data and Open Access
•Making associated data open can increase the 
citation rate of scientific papers by as much as 
69%, after allowing for journal impact factor, date 
of publication, and the author’s country of origin
• Research articles that have been made Open 
Access are cited more often than those that have 
not
• An exhaustive synoptic analysis of 31 studies 
undertaken by Swan showed that 27 had some OA 
citation advantage, ranging from 35% to 600% (
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/).