There is a growing recognition that current evaluation metrics often fail to capture the breadth…
Advocacy resources
Rethinking Research Assessment: Building Blocks for Impact
This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving…
Rethinking Research Assessment: Debiasing Committee Composition and Deliberative Processes
This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving…
SPACE rubric workbook and workshop kit
This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving…
Why Does Research Assessment Need Systems Thinking?
Ruth Schmidt and colleagues explain how systems thinking can advance responsible research assessment. In an…
Balanced, broad, responsible: A practical guide for research evaluators
This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving…
SPACE to evolve academic assessment: A rubric for analyzing institutional conditions and progress indicators
This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving…
Halt the H-index
The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) studies bibliometric and scientometric tools to support…
Rethinking Research Assessment for the Greater Good
The ScholCommLab in Canada conducted a multi-year project examining more than 850 review, promotion, and…
DORA slide presentations
We know that slide presentations are one of the primary means of academic communication. To help you talk about research assessment, we created three presentations that are available for download.