OAMAP

The open science movement has transformed expectations around data sharing, access to publications, and research reproducibility over the past two decades. Yet the decision processes that determine which research is published, funded, and rewarded remain largely opaque. Peer review, grant allocation, and academic promotion operate as black boxes in which the anonymity designed to protect reviewers has been conflated with the opacity that shields the process itself from scrutiny. 

This Open Audit Methodology for Academic Processes (OAMAP) is a structured framework that makes every step of research assessment verifiable by independent parties while preserving the anonymity protections that reviewers require. 

OAMAP is designed as a verification complement to the self-evaluation instruments developed by the CoARA-ERIP Working Group and the SE4RA Project, providing the evidentiary layer that ensures self-reported compliance can be independently confirmed.