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The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated. The declaration was developed in 2012 during 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 scholarly research to sign DORA.

DORA’s governance procedures are openly available, and our current priorities are outlined in the 2018 Roadmap.

Good practices

I decided about 40 years ago that I wanted to publish only in journals at which practicing scientists did the editing and editorial decision-making and at which the overall goal was to serve…

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John Pringle, Stanford University

When Gary Struhl and I decided to work on planar polarity 20 years ago, we decided for a variety of reasons to avoid publishing in some of the journals that happen to have the highest impact…

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Peter Lawrence, Cambridge University

The high glamour journals, which sport the highest journal impact factors, are driven by incentives that run counter to the needs and interests of professional scientists. In their need for an uber…

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Jasper Rine, University of California

Supporting organizations

ASCB

Cancer Research UK

The Company of Biologists

eLife

EMBO

F1000 Research

Hindawi

HHMI - Howard Hughes Medical Institute

PLOS

Wellcome

Steering committee

David Carr

David Carr

Wellcome

Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry, Chair

Imperial College London

Catriona MacCallum

Catriona MacCallum

Hindawi

Erin McKiernan

Erin McKiernan

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Dan Morgan

Dan Morgan

PLOS

Claire Moulton

Claire Moulton

The Company of Biologists

Mark Patterson

Mark Patterson

eLife

Bernd Pulverer

Bernd Pulverer

EMBO

Fiona Reddington

Fiona Reddington

Cancer Research UK

Erika Shugart

Erika Shugart

American Society for Cell Biology

Advisory Board

Dominique Babini

Dominique Babini

El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)

Argentina

Ginny Barbour

Ginny Barbour, Chair

Queensland University of Technology

Australia

José Pío Beltrán

José Pío Beltrán

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in València

Spain

Needhi Bhalla

Needhi Bhalla

University of California, Santa Cruz

United States

Leslie Chan

Leslie Chan

University of Toronto Scarborough

Canada

Christian Gonzalez-Billaut

Christian Gonzalez-Billaut

Universidad de Chile

Chile

Yukiko Gotoh

Yukiko Gotoh

The University of Tokyo

Japan

Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen

Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen

National Library of Finland

Finland

Rebecca Lawrence

Rebecca Lawrence

F1000

United Kingdom

Xiaoxuan Li

Xiaoxuan Li

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Satyajit Mayor

Satyajit Mayor

National Centre for Biological Science (TIFR)

India

Valerie Mizrahi

Valerie Mizrahi

University of Capetown

South Africa

Ahmed Ogunlaja

Ahmed Ogunlaja

Open Access Nigeria

Nigeria

Sandra Schmid

Sandra Schmid

UT Southwestern Medical Center

United States

Iara Vidal

Iara Vidal

Federal University of Rio De Janeiro

Brazil

Rhoda Wanyenze

Rhoda Wanyenze

Makerere University School of Public Health

Uganda

Staff

Anna Hatch

Anna Hatch

DORA Community Manager

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