Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

🔍 "Who controls the scientific literature?" In our latest guest blog post, Fiona Hutton PhD, Damian Pattinson, and Peter Rodgers share the eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd. model, and reflect on the challenges of driving innovation in scientific publishing. Drawing from their experience, they explore how citation databases and journal indexes can stifle progress, and why rethinking these structures is essential for a more equitable research system. 📖 Read the full post: https://lnkd.in/drAfzXrY #ScholarlyCommunication #ResearchAssessment #PeerReview #OpenScience

74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper focusing on the landscape of predominantly English language international journals - co-authored with Zehra Taşkın, Emanuel Kulczycki and Mikael Laakso - is now available as pdf on QSS website!

📢 Reminder: Global #survey on participation in scientific organizations: https://lnkd.in/epA_c4cd. There is still time to take part in the global survey on participation, leadership, and inclusion in scientific organizations, launched by the International Science Council, The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science. Are you a scientist involved in a scientific organization? This includes science academies, science unions and associations, societies, science councils, and young scientist organizations. ➡️ We invite you to take part in a survey exploring how scientists engage with these institution, including access, roles, leadership pathways, perceived benefits and barriers, organizational culture, inclusion, recognition, policies, and experiences of discrimination. Your input will help generate data-driven recommendations to support more inclusive and equitable scientific institutions worldwide. Please share this survey with colleagues in your networks and organizations. 🗓️ Deadline: 5 August 2025 🔗 Take the survey now: https://lnkd.in/epA_c4cd

We’re excited to extend the invite from our CoARA - Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment colleagues Stuart King, Grace Murkett, anna seager and Helen Louise Young to the first hybrid Open Meeting of the UK CoARA National Chapter, taking place on Wednesday, 3rd September at the Wellcome Trust in London and online. The theme of the day is “Moving Principles Into Practice, Together”, and the agenda includes contributions from UK funders, institutions, and others leading the way in research assessment reform. Date: 3 September 2025 Time: 09:30–15:30 BST Location: Wellcome Trust, London & Online Register here: https://lnkd.in/dPPu6pJS Rebecca Lawrence, Vice-Chair of DORA, will be introducing our new resource: A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations. This guide is designed to help institutions move from intention to action—offering a flexible, inspirational starting point for embedding responsible research assessment practices. Let’s come together for a day of shared learning, open discussion, and actionable ideas. We hope to see you there! #ResearchAssessment #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #UKResearch #HigherEducation #ResearchCulture

"Journals and peer review are unlikely to change for the better if the companies that operate scientific indexes and citation databases continue to stifle innovation." Authors compete for space in a small number of “high-impact” journals in the hope of publishing a paper that will secure them tenure or their next grant, job or promotion. This has consequences: ▪️ We focus on the wrong thing ▪️ Time and effort are wasted ▪️ Inequality is entrenched In this guest article in Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), Fiona Hutton PhD, Damian Pattinson, and Peter Rodgers discuss the reactions to the eLife model by indexers and citation databases and their implications for innovation and progress. “Scientists might do the research and write the papers; they may referee papers for journals and sit on editorial boards; but somehow power and control over vital issues – what is peer review, what is a journal, what gets published – have been ceded to organizations beyond the scientific community, like Web of Science and Scopus. This is not healthy for science or the scientific community.” Read our guest post in DORA: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g8p4Dr_u

Are you engaged in #PeerReview activity? Would you like your contribution to be recognized in hiring, promotion or funding decisions? Check out the brand-new recommendations from the CoARA - Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment Working Group on Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review: https://lnkd.in/dTe_nB85 These guidelines offer useful suggestions for how peer review activities can be acknowledged in #ResearchAssessment by research performing organisations, funding agencies, journals and individual researchers. EMBO is a founding member of the working group and contributed to the development these guidelines. https://lnkd.in/ghHp-aBH Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) Research On Research Institute (RoRI) #LifeSciences #research #publishing

📹 The Barcelona Declaration in action. Now on YouTube! We’re excited to launch the Barcelona Declaration YouTube channel, a new space to follow our community’s journey toward open research information. 🎬 To kick things off, we’re sharing the morning session of the Bologna Meeting on Open Research Information, held on May 28, in the context of the 5th Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata #WOOC2025. In this session, you’ll see: - A welcome by Silvio Peroni, OpenCitations/University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna) and Raffaella Campaner, University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna) - An update on where we are and where we’re headed by Bianca Kramer, our Executive Director. - Implementation journeys from signatories: Carla Carbonell from Fundación ”la Caixa”, John Chodacki from California Digital Library, and Ana Ranitovic from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the Dutch Signatories of the Barcelona Declaration. ▶️ Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/eD3Jqny3 📌 And there is more!  If you’re curious about the broader conversations on open research infrastructures, you can now explore the full recordings from Day 2 of #WOOC2025, available on the OpenCitations YouTube channel. 💡  The sessions feature invited talks, short presentations, and poster pitches from key voices in the open research infrastructure community. ▶️ Discover the full playlist here: https://lnkd.in/emdC8HDf

Please save the date for an upcoming Validation Workshop hosted by the CoARA WG Towards Transformation Subgroup on Transdisciplinary Research (WG SG TDR): 🗓 15–16 October 2025 |📍 Brussels, Belgium Are you a research funder within the CoARA community committed to advancing transdisciplinary research? You are warmly invited to join WG SG TDR for the upcoming Validation Workshop as the subgroups prepares the final review of its findings! Outlining the core characteristics and quality criteria of transdisciplinary research, WG SG TDR's guidance and recommendations are aimed at research funding organisations and include recommendations for assessment of TDR across the entire research funding life cycle. The subgroup welcomes the participation and contributions of research funders to join these final discussions to further shape how transdisciplinary is recognised and supported. 🔗 Click here to learn more: https://lnkd.in/e5Fi_Y7v

We are very grateful to Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya (AQuAS) for translating our tool "Unintended Cognitive and Systems Biases" into Catalan! Find more below 👇 Developed by Anna Hatch, PhD and Ruth Schmidt, this tool identifies seven personal biases that can influence hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions. It also reveals four institutional and infrastructural implications of these biases and provides strategies to develop new institutional conditions that reduce bias. Additional context is provided in a four-part blog post series 👉 https://lnkd.in/dmX2EtMv

"The research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research." 💬 Our new guest blog post by Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director of F1000 and our Vice-Chair, argues that the challenge isn’t innovation, it is adoption, and proposes a three-step process to move us forward. Read more on the connection between reforming #ResearchAssessment and #ScholarlyCommunication 👉 https://lnkd.in/dvrpygFi