DORA

‼️Global call 🌍 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: forms.gle/aJ8NBXbdotKAyY…

Want to learn about practical innovations in research assessment in the US? 🇺🇸 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 👉 bit.ly/RRA-innovations

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 👉forms.gle/aJ8NBXbdotKAyY… by October 31 ‼️

We are pleased to invite you to our online panel Implementing Responsible Research Assessment in India! 🇮🇳 🗓️  Thursday, June 6, 2025 🕒  3:00–4:00 PM IST | 10:30–11:30 AM GMT 📍  Online Register now 👉 bit.ly/RRA-in-India

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 bit.ly/DORAGuide-Laun…

✨ @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: bit.ly/4aP8QJP!

Come celebrate DORA’s 12th birthday with the launch of “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”! With guest speakers, we will introduce the guide and discuss how it can help you take action. bit.ly/DORAGuide-Laun…

Show your support for DORA with one of our spiffing badges 📛: sfdora.org/resource/dora-… Now includes a 🆕 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: sfdora.org/reformscape/so…

We have made our biggest update to #Reformscape yet! We recently added fifteen 1️⃣5️⃣ new institutions and thirty-five 3️⃣5️⃣ new examples of responsible research assessment practices and polices. (And we fixed a bug 🐜.) sfdora.org/reformscape/

DORA’s guidance on responsible use of quantitative indicators prompts users to follow 5 principles, like: 💡Be 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. ow.ly/mb4550T7BGW

@MostlyPhysics Yes, exactly. Data on number of researchers or number of research institutions is much harder to come by.

We made a little improvement to our map 🗺 of DORA signatories on sfdora.org/signers/. Here's why. 🧵 1/4

You can hover your mouse cursor over a country to see the raw number of signers and the number per million people. sfdora.org/signers/ Enjoy this new look into interest in research assessment reforms! 4/4 🏁

We wanted a map that would give the viewer a better idea 🤔 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. doi.org/10.1002/1873-3…

"Open science arose in response to scientists churning out junk, but junk seems to be what the 'market' that interests scientists still demands." – Opinion from Nicholas JL Brown on academic "gaming" (quote lightly edited) doi.org/10.1371/journa…

DORA’s guidance on responsible use of quantitative indicators prompts users to follow 5 principles, like: 💡Be fair: How will you avoid biases inherent in quantitative indicators? Be proactive & transparent in efforts to address this challenge. ow.ly/980t50T7BGj

Individual anecdotes, like getting a well-known grant, can skew what we prioritize when assessing research. Institutions can use structured interview protocols to keep decision-makers focused on agreed-upon qualities, rather than on reputation. ow.ly/ICWf50T7EUN