Anniversary Timeline

10 years of promoting openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research

2012

Public release of the Open Science Framework (OSF)

2013

The Center for Open Science launches

2014

First Registered Reports appears

2015

Introduction of the TOP Guidelines

2016

OSF Preprints and OSF Institutions launches

2017

OSF reaches 70K registered users

2019

Inaugural Metascience 2019 Symposium  occurs at Stanford University

2020

OSF Collections and OSF Registries launches

2020

TOP Factor commences 

2020

OSF surpasses 50K registrations

2021

COS coordinates the Metascience 2021 Conference occurring virtually

2021

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science becomes the first international standard setting instrument on open science

2022

OSF reaches 500K registered users

2022

Transformational policy shift towards open science in the U.S.

2022

183 journals offer Registered Reports

2023

White House initiates 2023 as the "Year of Open Science" to advance national open science policies across the federal government

2023

Over 400 journals receives a TOP Factor rating of 6 or higher

2023

COS's 10th anniversary and the Metascience 2023 Conference convene at the National Academy of Sciences building