Navigating the AI frontier in funding
Each quarter, DORA holds two Community of Practice meetings for research funding organizations. One meeting…
DORA is a global initiative that campaigns for and supports improving ways we assess research and researchers.
DORA started as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. 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. Since 2018, it has become a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines and all key actors in the global scholarly system including researchers, funders, publishers, academies and professional societies, and research performing institutions.
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 and join the movement.
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Coordinated Reform in Research Assessment and Publishing
Each quarter, DORA holds a Community of Practice (CoP) meeting for National and International Initiatives…
Welcoming the New Members of the DORA Steering Committee
Following our global call for new Steering Committee members in October 2025, DORA is delighted…
Shared Principles, Regional Realities: Advancing Research Assessment Reform in the Asia-Pacific
Blog cross-posted with ALLEA and FORCE11. Across the global research system, growing recognition of the…
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Arcadia is a family charitable foundation that helps people to record cultural heritage, to conserve and restore nature, and to promote open access to knowledge. Arcadia supported Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA), a project to facilitate the development of new policies and practices for academic career assessment.