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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.
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DORA Survey of Research Assessment Practices in U.S. Institutions
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Announcement: DORA Science Policy Internship
Are you looking to join an organization that is seeking to improve academic evaluation? Since…
Reimagining Academic Career Assessment: New case studies from DORA, EUA, and SPARC Europe
In recent years, an increasing number of organizations have started to consider how to implement…
Case Study
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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The Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Good Practices
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.