The Open Research Working Group on behalf of the Research Committee developed a set of five principles to guide the use of bibliometric indicators in research assessment, which include expertise, diversity, data, integrity, and transparency.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
In keeping with HHMI’s commitment to basic scientific discovery, the Institute employs outstanding researchers for renewable seven-year terms as HHMI Investigators.
Ghent University
Ghent University published a vision statement for evaluating research based on eight principles agreed on by the University’s Board of Governors.
CIRAD, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development
CIRAD developed the ImpresS method to assess the environmental and societal impact its research.
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences | Fédération des sciences humaines
The Federation released a report in 2017 to support the ongoing conversation in Canada about the assessment of research impact in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).
American Society For Cell Biology
The idea for the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment began at the 2012 ASCB Annual Meeting. As one of the initial DORA signatories, the ASCB does not promote its publications by the Journal Impact Factor.
Académie des Sciences, Leopoldina and Royal Society
Three national academies issued a statement on good practice in the evaluation of researchers and research programs in October of 2017. The statement recognized the need for efficient, fair, and robust researcher evaluation, especially as the size of the research community continues to increase.
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
The NHMRC guide for peer review instructs assessors not to rely on the Journal Impact Factor when making judgments.
ANR, the French National Research Agency
Applicants understand how funding decisions are made, because the Agency openly shares a general summary of its decision-making process on their website written in English and French.
UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics
The Metric Tide was published in July 2015, and provides an extensive review of the literature on peer review, the use of metrics and altmetrics, and a statistical analysis of the predictive power of various numerical indicators (including the JIF).