Funding organizations signal what is valued within research ecosystems by defining the criteria upon which…
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which researchers and the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
The idea to write the declaration was developed in 2012 during at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. It has become a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines and all key stakeholders including funders, publishers, professional societies, institutions, and researchers.
We encourage all individuals and organizations who are interested in developing and promoting best practice in the assessment of researchers and scholarly research to sign DORA.
The DORA blog
Webinar: Rethinking research assessment reform as a systems challenge
Date: Friday, February 11Time: 3:00 PM UTC | 4:00 PM CET | 12:00 PM UYT…
Why DORA’s Governance Is Changing
We must live up to our own standards of inclusion. DORA challenges academic institutions, funding…
Dashboard development: identifying and categorizing good practice
Introduction to Project TARA As more institutions begin to examine and refine their approach to…
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Case Study
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The Dutch Research Council (NWO)
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Rethinking Research Assessment: Unintended Cognitive and Systems Biases
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Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin supports Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA), a project to facilitate the development of new policies and practices for academic career assessment. Learn more.