Stratos is a results-oriented consultancy dedicated to cultivating research excellence through the power of Open Science.
We work with partners including funders, institutions, and project groups to develop broad-based, impactful solutions to address the most pressing issues in scholarship. Our integrated approach combines data and analysis, strategy, metrics, people, and technology.
Research excellence is our goal. We believe Open Science can help us achieve it.
Our challenge
The outdated norms of scholarly communications are stifling scientific discovery — slowing progress, inhibiting collaboration, wasting researchers’ time and grant dollars, reinforcing inequity, and creating unnecessary opportunities to introduce mistakes and misconduct.
Stratos works to uncover answers and address the underlying structural problems with research communication. Together with our partners, we’re reshaping the scholarly communications infrastructure to empower rapid, cost-effective, sustainable, reliable, and impactful scholarly research.
We do that by designing and implementing solutions that forge a closer relationship between how research is conducted, and how it is communicated and consumed.
Bringing conducting research and communicating research closer together in time
Using the same formats and platforms to conduct and communicate research
Kristen Ratan
Founder
Kristen founded Stratos in 2019 to connect open research ideas and initiatives into a movement. She has a 20+ year history working to accelerate advances in science and research communication. She started the ICOR strategic circle, co-founded the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), and was the Publisher at the Public Library of Science (PLOS). Kristen is on the board of the ASAPbio, Rapid Science, and the American Institute of Physics Publishing, and the advisory boards of DataSeer, Stencila, PREreview and Invest in Open Infrastructure.
Jennifer Kemp
Director Consulting Services
Jennifer brings over 20 years of experience leading initiatives in open research, infrastructure, policy development, and librarianship to her work as Stratos’ Director of Consulting Services. She specializes in finding common ground among diverse stakeholders to inspire and drive change.
“Change of any consequence doesn’t happen without people coming together.”
Latest Updates
Learn more about what’s happening in Open Science.
Creating convergence: Coming together to tackle systemic challenges
Note: This post is the second in a two-part series. Read the first post, exploring the interconnected challenges of the current system, here. Researchers, funders, institutions and other stakeholders have the power to reshape scholarly communications to better reflect...
Systematic problems require large scale systematic solutions: We need convergence
Note: This post is the first in a two-part series. Read the first post, exploring collaborative strategies for creating change here. Scholarly communication doesn’t work well enough for enough stakeholders. But why is that, exactly? What are the root causes? How do...
ICOR promotes a new research communication paradigm
In February, ICOR hosted a webinar with several leaders who are rethinking research sharing beyond the confines of the traditional journal article. There have been a number of meetings and workshops focused on the future of scholarly communication, publishing, and...