The fundamental activity of the ERC is to provide attractive, long-term funding to support Principal…
Good practices
Academic Incentives and Research Impact: Developing Reward and Recognition Systems to Better People’s Lives
In this article, Jonathan Grant outlines nine cases that highlight examples of new academic incentives…
Linguistic Society of America: Statement on the Scholarly Merit and Evaluation of Open Scholarship in Linguistics
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) published a statement on their commitment to Open Scholarship…
Linguistic Society of America: Statement on Evaluation of Language Documentation for Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion
The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) published a statement of recommendations concerning the appropriate means…
Academia In Motion: Recognition & Rewards at Leiden University
In support of the Dutch Recognition and Rewards Programme, Leiden University published a position paper…
Yale University Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department
In 2020, the Yale Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department (MB&B) tested anonymized applications for tenure-track…
The University of Portsmouth
The governance policies of The University of Portsmouth provide information about its standards and regulations…
Wellcome
As part of its open access 2020 policy, Wellcome-funded organizations are asked to publicly commit to the principle that when assessing research outputs – for example in hiring, promotion and tenure committees – they will consider the intrinsic merit of the work, not the title of the journal, its impact factor or the publisher.
U.S. National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation has modified its instructions to grant applicants to recognize that the outputs of scientific research include more than just publications, an idea endorsed by DORA.
U.S. National Institutes of Health
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has revised the format of the CV or “biosketch” in grant applications.