DORA is an initiative that unites more than 17,000 individuals and 2,000 organizations in 148…
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.
From our Resource Library
The Latin American Forum for Research Assessment
Case Study
The Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Good Practices
Rethinking Research Assessment: Unintended Cognitive and Systems Biases
Advocacy Resources
The DORA blog
DORA receives $1.2M grant from Arcadia to accelerate research assessment reform
Research assessment reform is part of the open research movement in academia that asks the…
DORA Newsletter June 2021
Announcing SPACE to Evolve Academic Assessment DORA is delighted to share “SPACE to Evolve Academic…
DORA Community Call: SPACE to evolve academic assessment
Join DORA for a community call to discuss a new rubric for analyzing institutional progress…
Member Organizations
Visionary
Sustainer
Supporter
The Dutch Research Council (NWO)
F1000Research
Iowa State University Library
Additional support
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.