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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
From declaration to global initiative: a decade of DORA
As we wind down our tenth anniversary celebration this May 2023, we’re taking a look…
A Quality Assessment Framework for Research Design, Planning, and Evaluation: Updates from the Sustainability Research Effectiveness Program in Canada
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Announcement: DORA Science Policy Associate
Update, 25 September 2025: This position is now closed. Join an organization that wants to…
Evaluation of researchers in action: Updates from UKRI and a discussion on the utility of CRediT
Each quarter, DORA holds two Community of Practice (CoP) meetings for research funding organizations. One…
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Rethinking Research Assessment: Unintended Cognitive and Systems Biases
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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.