Bias influences the decisions that impact academic careers, from peer review and publication to hiring…
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.
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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The Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Good Practices
Rethinking Research Assessment: Unintended Cognitive and Systems Biases
Advocacy Resources
The DORA blog
DORA Newsletter September 2021
DORA receives $1.2M grant from Arcadia to accelerate research assessment reform DORA was awarded a…
Preprints in Academic Assessment
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced many facets of the research landscape, including the manner in…
Announcement: DORA Science Policy Internship
Are you looking to join an organization that is seeking to improve academic evaluation? Since…
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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.