GREI Virtual Workshop: The Evolving Data Sharing Ecosystem – Panel 2: Measuring the Impact of Data Sharing - Events

📝 Event Description

The Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) will host The Evolving Data Sharing Ecosystem: Revisiting the Role of Generalist Repositories, a virtual workshop held over two half-days. GREI is an NIH initiative that brings seven generalist repositories together to build consistent capabilities, services, metrics, and community infrastructure for sharing and reusing NIH-funded data. The workshop will build on the 2020 NIH workshop that led to GREI's formation and the 2023 GREI Workshop, bringing together researchers, repository leaders, librarians, data professionals, funders, and community organizations to look at how data sharing has progressed and what comes next.

Through panel discussions, lightning talks, and community conversations, the workshop will explore connecting research outputs across repositories, demonstrating the impact of shared data, preparing research outputs for an AI-enabled future, and clarifying the roles of generalist, disciplinary, and institutional repositories.

Panel 2 — Measuring the Impact of Data Sharing will take up a question that has moved to the center of the conversation. With data sharing now routinely required, the focus has shifted from whether researchers are sharing to whether it is making a difference. The panel will examine how the impact of shared data is measured and demonstrated, from citations, reuse, and reproducibility to the harder-to-count downstream effects on science and health. Panelists will discuss how open-metrics infrastructure is maturing, how impact can feed back into evaluation and credit, and what it will take to make data-sharing impact visible and rewarded for researchers.

Michael Chiang, Director of the National Eye Institute (NEI), will introduce the session. Each panelist will give a short presentation, followed by 30–40 minutes of moderated discussion and Q&A.

Moderator: Mark Hahnel, VP of Open Research, Digital Science, and founder of Figshare
Panelists:
- Kristen Ratan – Facilitating Consultant, NASEM Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship; Co-Founder, ICOR; Founder, Stratos
- Maryam Zaringhalam – Senior Director of Policy, Center for Open Science
- Robin Champieux – University Librarian, Oregon Health & Science University
- Bhavesh Patel – Research Professor, FAIR Data Innovations Hub, California Medical Innovations Institute

The full workshop program and speaker lineup are available here, and registration is open here. Recordings will be shared after the event on the GREI Zenodo Community and the Center for Open Science YouTube channel.

💡 Our Role / Contribution

Bhavesh Patel will join Panel 2 as an NIH S-index Challenge winner, bringing the perspective of developing tools to measure data-sharing impact. He will open with a short presentation drawing on his work on the S-index and Scholar Data, then join the panel discussion on what meaningful data-sharing impact looks like beyond download counts, what an index like the S-index can and cannot capture, the risks of scoring data sharing, and the common traits of frequently reused datasets.

📍 Location

Virtual (online workshop)

🗓 Date and Time

Wednesday–Thursday, November 18–19, 2026 · 12:00 – 4:00 PM ET each day
Panel 2: Wednesday, November 18 · 2:45 – 3:50 PM ET