
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


Announcing DORA’s New Executive Board Members
Co-creating a Practical Guide for Research Funding Organizations
Each quarter, DORA holds two Community of Practice meetings for research funding organizations. One meeting…

Advancing Responsible Research Assessment Through Data Evaluation
Guest post by Iratxe Puebla, from Make Data Count. The majority of research activities involve…
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The European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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The Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Rethinking Research Assessment: Unintended Cognitive and Systems Biases

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Arcadia is a family charitable foundation that helps people to record cultural heritage, to conserve and restore nature, and to promote open access to knowledge. Arcadia supports Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA), a project to facilitate the development of new policies and practices for academic career assessment.