OpenPulse addresses a critical gap in academic research by providing comprehensive tools for assessing the broader impact of open science beyond traditional publications. This project aims to enrich the metrics landscape for academia providing a platform for monitoring research software hosted on GitHub, a widely used online platform for hosting, sharing, and collaboratively developing software code. It identifies and analyses software created within academic institutions, measuring not only development activity but also long-term maintenance, community usage, and collaboration patterns. This focus on software activities empowers research communities by highlighting contributions that are foundational to scientific advancement but traditionally undervalued in classic academic evaluation frameworks. The Open Pulse monitoring platform makes its results easily accessible to all users, including those without data science expertise, through clear and interactive dashboards ready to explore detailed graph-based visualisations of research networks, capturing joint development, shared maintenance, and community engagement. It employs an ontology designed for interoperability with established academic data platforms, such as OpenAlex, EPFL Graph, and Imaging Plaza, thus enabling comprehensive integration across multiple research projects. Additionally, it leverages a specialised dashboard supported by the CHAOSS project, ensuring robust and consistent monitoring of repositories. By facilitating a fair and comprehensive evaluation of opensource software contributions, OpenPulse promotes open science and offers a practical tool that academic evaluators can use to better recognise and assess the value of open-source software developed by research communities.