Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks
Overview
The Global Federation of Reproducibility Networks (GFRN) is an international alliance of national and regional Reproducibility Networks working to improve the rigour, transparency, and reproducibility of research. The movement began with the UK Reproducibility Network in 2019, and as national networks spread the UKRN served as an informal coordinator until the GFRN was formally established in 2025 with a shared Terms of Reference. Its members are the Reproducibility Networks themselves, not individuals, and it coordinates them through regular meetings, shared training materials, joint funding engagement, and collective influence on international stakeholders. Since 2026 its coordinating office rotates, beginning with the Swiss Reproducibility Network at the University of Zurich.
Member networks
GFRN membership spans more than twenty national and regional Reproducibility Networks across all continents. The UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) is the founding network and the model the others adapt. Current members include national networks in the Americas (the Brazilian Reproducibility Network and the Canadian Reproducibility Network), Africa (the African Reproducibility Network), Oceania (the Australian Reproducibility Network), and across Europe (including the French, German, Dutch, Swiss, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Belgian, Danish, Finnish, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish, Slovak, Croatian, Luxembourg, Ukrainian, and Georgian networks).
Core activities across the networks
ReproducibiliTea journal clubs are grassroots open science discussion groups at universities worldwide, run by local chapters through the ReproducibiliTea initiative. Local networks provide communities of practice at individual institutions, institutional members join at the management level, and stakeholder engagement reaches funders, publishers, and learned societies. The networks share and reuse training materials, policies, and statements, and openly license what they produce.
Connections
- relatedTo: OSF (GFRN member networks promote and use OSF for pre-registration, registered reports, and open materials sharing)
- relatedTo: CoARA (GFRN engages CoARA among the research-assessment-reform initiatives its networks align with)
- relatedTo: DORA (GFRN lists DORA among the open-science and research-assessment initiatives it engages)
Resources
- https://www.reproducibility.global (GFRN)
- https://www.reproducibility.global/global-network (current member networks)
- https://reproducibilitea.org (ReproducibiliTea journal clubs)