Blog

Guest post by Singapore Management University As momentum for responsible research assessment grows globally, attention is increasingly on implementation. In her opening keynote at the 11th Annual FORCE Conference in Singapore, Professor Lily Kong, President of Singapore Management University (SMU), examined how universities can move beyond narrow publication metrics and build systems that value the...

Guest post by Noel Kikuchi, Asa Nakano, and Yuko Shinzawa Responsible research assessment in Japan is gaining momentum as universities, policymakers, and research communities move beyond traditional metrics such as publication counts and citation indicators. From institutional innovations such as Kyoto University’s COMON framework to collaborative initiatives translating international guidance into Japanese practice, this guest...

Guest post by Pauline Ronnet, EMBO Policy Assistant, and Sandra Bendiscioli, EMBO Senior Policy Officer and DORA Steering Committee Member Drawing on a 2026 community workshop, Pauline and Sandra explore how research excellence can be assessed in a changing scientific landscape, highlighting key challenges such as recognizing diverse research outputs, valuing broader contributions to research...

Keynote by Leslie Chan, Department of Global Development Studies, Director of the Knowledge Equity Lab, University of Toronto. DORA Steering Committee, Past Board Member of DOAJ and IOI. Leslie Chan’s keynote below, delivered at the 14th Global Research Council (GRC) Annual Meeting on May 20, 2026, in Bangkok, Thailand, underscored a critical shift in how...

Guest post by Dr Fang Xu, Deputy Director of Research Evaluation Center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and DORA Steering Committee Member In the global shift toward responsible research assessment, China’s decision to phase out its influential CAS Journal Classification system represents an important moment in moving beyond journal-based metrics. In this guest...

Guest post by Natalia Gras and Judith Sutz In this blog post, Natalia Gras and Judith Sutz examine the complex journey to reform research evaluation in Uruguay, tracing how a metric‑driven system has shaped academic life and how collective efforts are now opening possibilities for change. Drawing on extensive research, national consultation, and policy engagement,...

Guest post by Caitlin Schleicher, ORCA, Director of Community & Partnerships The Modernizing Academic Appointment & Advancement (MA3) Challenge has revealed a clear and growing appetite to rethink how academia in the United States rewards research, teaching, and service to better align with institutional values. With the announcement of the inaugural MA3 Challenge awardees, the...

This guest blog is republished with permission from the LSE Impact Blog, first published in March 2026 here. University rankings have become a key measure of success for India, even at the highest political levels. Yet, as in other countries ranking regimes have created distortions in research practices. Exploring the data behind India’s “ranking mania”...

Guest post by Matías Alcantara, from CLACSO-FOLEC. On December 11, 2025, the Bogotá Manifesto: Towards Open, Democratic, and Socially Relevant Science in Latin America and the Caribbean was publicly launched in a virtual event organized by CLACSO. This collective document marks a milestone for the region in advancing the transformation of knowledge production systems and...

Guest post by Iratxe Puebla, from Make Data Count. The majority of research activities involve creating, collecting, or using data. While datasets constitute the backbone of research activities, they are currently sidelined as part of research evaluation frameworks which predominantly focus on article publications. This is a missed opportunity in evaluation: Recognition for datasets is...

This guest blog is republished from the LSE Impact Blog, first published in December 2024 here. This is the third part of a three-part series written by Noemie Aubert-Bonn, Claire Fraser, Elizabeth Gadd, Haley Hazlett, and Karen Stroobants, on Unanswered questions in research assessment. Reflecting on the diversity of global research assessment reform movements, Karen...

This guest blog is republished from the LSE Impact Blog, first published in December 2024 here. This is the second part of a three-part series written by Noemie Aubert-Bonn, Claire Fraser, Elizabeth Gadd, Haley Hazlett, and Karen Stroobants, on Unanswered questions in research assessment. Noemie Aubert Bonn and Haley Hazlett discuss the importance of applying scholarly...

This guest blog is republished from the LSE Impact Blog, first published in December 2024 here. This is the first part of a three-part series written by Noemie Aubert-Bonn, Claire Fraser, Elizabeth Gadd, Haley Hazlett, and Karen Stroobants, on Unanswered questions in research assessment. Reflecting on the ongoing reform of research assessment, Claire Fraser and...

Guest post by Fiona Hutton, Damian Pattinson, and Peter Rodgers, from eLife. Journals and peer review are unlikely to change for the better if the companies that operate scientific indexes and citation databases continue to stifle innovation. A great deal has changed in scientific publishing in the past few decades – preprints, ORCIDs and DOIs,...

Guest post by Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director F1000 (part of Taylor & Francis Group), and Vice-Chair DORA. The traditional publication model of submit then peer review (mostly anonymously) and then publish has been the mainstay of research publishing for hundreds of years. It made a lot of sense in the print world where page restrictions...

Guest post by Jason Chin, Ludo Waltman, and Kathryn Zeiler. All authors are editors of MetaROR. Research assessment reform movements like DORA urge us to focus on what really matters: the intrinsic quality of research, a broad recognition of diverse contributions, and a move away from reductionist metrics like journal impact factors. These principles are...

Madelaine Hare, Isabelle Dorsch, Heather Woods, Carey Ming-Li Chen, and Stefanie Haustein Team at the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab)   Background: The Metrics Literacies project The Scholarly Communications Lab's Metrics Literacies project, funded by the Social Sciences Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, aimed to test the effectiveness of different multimedia formats for educating researchers about...

Adrian Barnett, Queensland University of Technology The winter months can get cold in Belfast, the largest city in Northern Ireland where the Titanic was designed, built and launched in the early 1900s. Not seriously cold of course, never sub-zero depths of cold that were the undoing of the Titanic on its maiden voyage, but a...

Judit Varga & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner Research on Research Institute (RoRI); Centre for Science & Technology Studies, Leiden University. Contact: w.kaltenbrunner@cwts.leidenuniv.nl This blog post reports some preliminary findings from a project designed to investigate the evaluative use of narrative CVs. When funding organizations organize review panels to assess grant applications, reviewers need to agree on what...

A DORAat10 Local Event Report In May 2023, DORA celebrated it's 10th Anniversary with two plenary sessions and a decentralized weeklong program of local events organized by community members from around the world. Event organizers were given the option to write brief reports on their events that summarize key takeaways and recommendations. By SOMMa Open...

A DORAat10 Local Event Report In May 2023, DORA celebrated it's 10th Anniversary with two plenary sessions and a decentralized weeklong program of local events organized by community members from around the world. Event organizers were given the option to write brief reports on their events that summarize key takeaways and recommendations.Scroll down for the...

A DORAat10 Local Event Report In May 2023, DORA celebrated it's 10th Anniversary with two plenary sessions and a decentralized weeklong program of local events organized by community members from around the world. Event organizers were given the option to write brief reports on their events that summarize key takeaways and recommendations. By Holly Limbert...

A DORAat10 Local Event Report In May 2023, DORA celebrated it's 10th Anniversary with two plenary sessions and a decentralized weeklong program of local events organized by community members from around the world. Event organizers were given the option to write brief reports on their events that summarize key takeaways and recommendations. By Rebecca Hill,...

A DORAat10 Local Event Report In May 2023, DORA celebrated it's 10th Anniversary with two plenary sessions and a decentralized weeklong program of local events organized by community members from around the world. Event organizers were given the option to write brief reports on their events that summarize key takeaways and recommendations. By Liam Bullingham...

A DORAat10 Local Event Report In May 2023, DORA celebrated it's 10th Anniversary with two plenary sessions and a decentralized weeklong program of local events organized by community members from around the world. Event organizers were given the option to write brief reports on their events that summarize key takeaways and recommendations. By Stephanie Warner,...