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Each quarter, DORA holds two Community of Practice meetings for research funding organizations. One meeting takes place for organizations in the Asia-Pacific (A-P) region and the other is for organizations in Africa, the Americas, and Europe (AAE). These groups provide a space for funders to learn from each other, share new policies and practices, and...

Each quarter, DORA holds a Community of Practice (CoP) meeting for National and International Initiatives working to address responsible research assessment reform. This CoP is a space for initiatives to learn from each other, make connections with like-minded organizations, and collaborate on projects or topics of common interest. Meeting agendas are shaped by participants. If...

Following our global call for new Steering Committee members in October 2025, DORA is delighted to announce the appointment of eight new at‑large members and three new Supporting Organization representatives to the Steering Committee. The response to our global call for at-large members was extraordinary: 213 self‑nominations, from over 70 countries, spanning all regions and...

Blog cross-posted with ALLEA and FORCE11. Across the global research system, growing recognition of the limitations and unintended consequences of narrow, metrics-driven assessment practices has catalysed momentum for reform. Concerns about research quality, equity, and the sustainability of research careers have grown alongside progress in research infrastructures and open science practices, evolving publishing models, and...

DORA is delighted to announce the launch of its Introduction to Responsible Research Assessment Course. This online, self-paced course provides an approachable, entry-level curriculum for anyone at any career stage and in a variety of roles to learn about responsible research assessment (RRA). The course is free for individuals to take but it requires registration,...

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...

DORA is thrilled to announce an important stride in advancing Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) in Brazil, with potential benefits to the Lusophone world. On December 10, 2025, following months of intense collaboration with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Projeto Métricas, we officially launched the Portuguese translation of the Practical Guide for Implementing Responsible...

On December 2, 2025, as a side event of the CeRRA conference in Copenhagen, DORA hosted a full-day co-creation workshop at Aalborg University. The goal: to refine the Practical Guide for Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Funding Organizations (RFO Guide), being developed together with the Global Research Council RRA Working Group (GRC RRA WG ) and Science...

We are delighted to share the insights and progress discussed during our online event, “Innovations in Responsible Research Assessment in the United States”, held on November 20, 2025. The session aimed to highlight exemplars of progress toward responsible research assessment (RRA) in the U.S. and provide information about exciting funding opportunities to support institutional reform...

Each quarter, DORA holds two Community of Practice meetings for research funding organizations. One meeting takes place for organizations in the Asia-Pacific (A-P) region and the other is for organizations in Africa, the Americas, and Europe (AAE). These groups provide a space for funders to learn from each other, share new policies and practices, and...

Cross-published with CoARA. With an aim to strengthen a global culture of responsible research assessment and drive impact through aligned principles, DORA is pleased to announce a joint statement released with the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). The official joint statement is the result of years of collaborative efforts between the two initiatives and...

International community convenes in Pisa to advance coordinated reform in publishing and research assessment Cross-posted with International Science Council (ISC) , ASAPbio and CWTS. On 14 November 2025, representatives from several organizations across the publishing reform and research assessment reform communities gathered in Pisa, Italy, for a workshop aimed at identifying and advancing joint actions...

Each quarter, DORA holds a Community of Practice (CoP) meeting for National and International Initiatives working to address responsible research assessment reform. This CoP is a space for initiatives to learn from each other, make connections with like-minded organizations, and collaborate on projects or topics of common interest. Meeting agendas are shaped by participants. If...

The DORA team is delighted to invite you to this online event focused on innovations in research assessment practices in the United States, on November 20, 2025, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (Eastern Time). You can register at https://bit.ly/RRA-innovations. Enrique will be talking about the work he has been doing when as Department Chair at Yale...

DORA is opening a global call for new Steering Committee members. We are seeking up to 8 committed individuals from around the world—particularly from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean—to help shape the future of responsible research assessment. We would love to have your self-nomination! Over the last decade, DORA has grown into...

We are pleased to announce the formation of DORA’s new Executive Board, composed of three members of our Steering Committee: Sandra Bendiscioli (EMBO), Roheena Anand (PLOS), and Stuart Lane (SNSF). They join Co-Chairs Ginny Barbour (QUT), Kelly Cobey (University of Ottawa Heart Institute) and Vice-Chair Rebecca Lawrence (F1000). The Executive Board plays a vital role...

Each quarter, DORA holds two Community of Practice meetings for research funding organizations. One meeting takes place for organizations in the Asia-Pacific (A-P) region and the other is for organizations in Africa, the Americas, and Europe (AAE). These groups provide a space for funders to learn from each other, share new policies and practices, 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...

Each quarter, DORA holds a Community of Practice (CoP) meeting for National and International Initiatives working to address responsible research assessment reform. This CoP is a space for initiatives to learn from each other, make connections with like-minded organizations, and collaborate on projects or topics of common interest. Meeting agendas are shaped by participants. If...

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...

We’re excited to announce a new accessibility feature on the DORA website: optional automatic translations powered by Google Translate. This enhancement is part of our ongoing commitment to making our content more accessible and inclusive for our global community. Why This Matters Language should never be a barrier to accessing important information. By enabling automatic...