San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Find us on LinkedIn and Bluesky. Initiated by @ASCBiology. Let's change what we value in research!
๐ Join us for the launch of our Practical Guide for Funders! Coโhosted with the Global Research Council and Science Europe, the events bring funders together to explore how the Guide can support changes in research assessment. ๐ Three online sessions in May: register now!
We are developing our 2027-2030 Strategic Plan and welcome input from the research community! Researchers, funders, institutions, publishers: tell us what matters most going forward. Respond as yourself or as an organization. Thank you for your response ๐ https://t.co/3K03HEvUpC
Want to learn about practical innovations in research assessment in the US? ๐บ๐ธ Join us on Nov 20, 1pm ET, to hear about innovations in tenure, peer review training, and the Modernizing Academic Appointment and Advancement (MA3) Challenge! Register ๐ https://t.co/iVkDAppulO
Shaping research assessment is your thing? Or perhaps one of your friends? There's still time to share this opportunity or send your self-nomination to join our Steering Committee!
Submit via the form ๐https://t.co/uvfpHkRDeQ by October 31 โผ๏ธ
โผ๏ธGlobal call ๐ DORA is seeking new Steering Committee members! We especially welcome applications from Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean. Help shape the future of responsible research assessment. Submit your self-nomination by October 31: https://t.co/uvfpHkSb4o
โผ๏ธGlobal call ๐ DORA is seeking new Steering Committee members! We especially welcome applications from Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean. Help shape the future of responsible research assessment. Submit your self-nomination by October 31: https://t.co/uvfpHkSb4o
We are pleased to invite you to our online panel Implementing Responsible Research Assessment in India! ๐ฎ๐ณ
๐๏ธย Thursday, June 6, 2025
๐ย 3:00โ4:00 PM IST | 10:30โ11:30 AM GMT
๐ย Online
Register now ๐ https://t.co/qKFiEgQuPR
As we gear up to launch our #ResponsibleResearchAssessment Guide for research performing institutions in just 3 weeks, we want to thank the DORA community and all those who contributed to it! Join us for the launch May 15-16 https://t.co/Srb9tbetk9
โจ @Concordia recently joined @DORAssessment!
Join their hybrid seminar on Feb 20, 2025 at 10:15 am - 12 pm ET to learn more about it and hear from an expert panel on what it means to be part of DORA!
Register today: https://t.co/zK4Xa3u05d!
Come celebrate DORAโs 12th birthday with the launch of โA Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizationsโ! With guest speakers, we will introduce the guide and discuss how it can help you take action. https://t.co/Srb9tbetk9
Show your support for DORA with one of our spiffing badges ๐: https://t.co/Zr1jJTDrgt
Now includes a ๐ badge for those of you who have contributed to our Resource Library!
Interested in how research assessment can support better diversity, equity, and inclusion?
We have a specific tag for "Equity and inclusion" in #Reformscape, our tool compiling responsible research assessment policies and practices: https://t.co/fUbwa2Kdvl
We have made our biggest update to #Reformscape yet!
We recently added fifteen 1๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ new institutions and thirty-five 3๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ new examples of responsible research assessment practices and polices.
(And we fixed a bug ๐.)
https://t.co/379KtdsVwG
DORAโs guidance on responsible use of quantitative indicators prompts users to follow 5 principles, like:
๐กBe specific: How well does the indicator refer to the qualities of the person or the piece of work being assessed? Be mindful of aggregate metrics.
https://t.co/bInDlqmS5p
You can hover your mouse cursor over a country to see the raw number of signers and the number per million people. https://t.co/x3ut9jZsx3
Enjoy this new look into interest in research assessment reforms! 4/4 ๐
We wanted a map that would give the viewer a better idea ๐ค of where there was more DORA activity.
We scaled it to population so that larger, more populous countries wouldn't dominate the map.
Not as brightly colored but much more informative. 3/4
Duncan E. Wright argues that problems of getting peer reviewers, research fraud, paper mills, predatory journals, and trivial papers are all symptoms of research culture emphasizing quantity over quality.
https://t.co/xRQ2jRvAV7
"Open science arose in response to scientists churning out junk, but junk seems to be what the 'market' that interests scientists still demands."
โ Opinion from Nicholas JL Brown on academic "gaming" (quote lightly edited)
https://t.co/yd3kdk3l69