PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY · 2025

Research Integrity and Open Data Report

The annual account of research-integrity cases, peer-review safeguards, data-release performance, software preservation and public access to federally funded science.

ANSA-RIOD-2025 · PUBLISHED 16 DECEMBER 2025

The annual account of research-integrity cases, peer-review safeguards, data-release performance, software preservation and public access to federally funded science.

Dataset-level metrics cited in the report can be downloaded from the Science Data service in machine-readable form.

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DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION

Selected pages from the filed edition

Reference reproductions from the authoritative public record. Paper tone, handling marks, audit notation and authorized redactions are retained where present.

Scanned public-edition cover of the ANSA Research Integrity and Open Data Report 2025. — PUBLIC COVER
Annual public report filed under ANSA-RIOD-2025.

Scanned ANSA open-data report page showing data-release rates and archive statistics. — PAGE 037
Open-data release performance, catalogue totals and repository service levels.

Scanned ANSA report page showing the research-integrity review workflow, case dispositions and control improvements. — PAGE 064
Research-integrity review workflow, case dispositions and control improvements.

REPORT SUMMARY

Principal findings

Selected statements from the public report; consult the authoritative edition for scope and methodology.

FINDING 0101

Ninety-seven percent of scheduled mission datasets were released on time.

Reported under ANSA-RIOD-2025.

FINDING 0202

All substantiated integrity findings and corrective actions are disclosed in the report.

Reported under ANSA-RIOD-2025.

FINDING 0303

Persistent identifiers were assigned to 18,406 datasets and software releases.

Reported under ANSA-RIOD-2025.

FINDING 0404

Independent replication grants were expanded for high-impact Earth-science results.

Reported under ANSA-RIOD-2025.

CONTENTS

Report structure

Major sections in the authoritative public edition.

01CHAPTER

Integrity governance

Policies, case handling, appeals and protection of good-faith reporting.

02CHAPTER

Open mission data

Release timeliness, validation exceptions and archive availability.

03CHAPTER

Software and reproducibility

Code preservation, methods disclosure and replication support.

04CHAPTER

Research participation

Competitive review, conflicts of interest and institutional diversity.