A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a workshop to examine avenues for broadening the current criteria for researcher assessment and incentives within U.S. academic institutions beyond traditional research outputs such as grants, publications, and citation counts. The workshop will focus on expanding researcher assessment of and incentives for activities that contribute broadly to U.S. research and scientific leadership, such as the following:

• Contributing to open access publishing and data sharing;
• Enhancing research transparency and strengthening research integrity;
• Engaging the community in research and addressing local, societal, and regulatory needs;
  
• Conducting research-centered mentorship for early career researchers; and
  
• Fostering team science and interdisciplinary collaborations.

The workshop will examine case studies of institutions that have adopted or are piloting expanded researcher assessment criteria in ways that have the potential to transform reward systems and advancement policies at U.S. academic institutions. The workshop will bring together researchers and university administrators to explore effective strategies for implementing these potential assessment changes at scale. A Proceedings in Brief will be published following the workshop.