The 2025 Global Research Council survey of funder approaches to responsible research assessment: Anonymised Dataset and Codebook

The second GRC Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) survey was conducted during 2024 and closed on the 6th of January 2025. Fifty public research funders across the globe have participated in this survey, so this report is able to give a robust global picture of the current state of RRA among funding organisations.

• Invitations to complete the survey were sent to representatives of all public research funding organisations participating in the Global Research Council during the time of the survey. This gave us a population (‘n’) of 117.
• There were a total of 50 responses, including 47 complete and 3 incomplete ones. To account for this, as well as for occasional non-completion of individual survey items by some respondents, we note the response count (‘n’) in each data graph in this report. Taking full and partial responses together, our response rate is 43%.
• Most questions had a closed point-and-click format, lending themselves to quantified data presentation. However, there were also several open text entry fields that respondents could use. Where helpful, we present summaries or anonymised extracts from this qualitative information to further contextualise and deepen the quantitative findings.
• The anonymised selected dataset is available here. We have removed any variables that may conceivably allow for identification of specific respondents or organisations. Requests for data not covered in the public set can be directed to the RoRI AGORRA team, who will consider each data request on an individual basis, prioritising anonymity of respondents in all cases.
• The research was granted approval by the Ethics Review Committee of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Leiden University.