« Earlier this spring, more than thirty academics and senior professionals from LERU member universities and seven leading Central European universities (CE7) gathered at Charles University, Prague, for an inspiring
« In the past decades, many countries have started to fund academic institutions based on the evaluation of their scientific performance. In this context, post-publication peer review is often used to…
« On 28 March 2023, CoARA launched its first call for Coalition members to propose Working Groups. This is a significant step in CoARA’s mission to enable systemic reform of research…
« “The use of journal impact factors and other metric indicators of research productivity, such as the h-index, has been heavily criticised for being invalid for the assessment of individual researchers…
« Introduction to the Project TARA toolkit
Since 2013, DORA has advocated a number of principles for responsible research evaluation, including avoiding the use of journal-based metrics as surrogate measures…
« (…) GraspOS is a new EU-funded project kicked-off on the 19 and 20 of January in Athens. Its aim is to investigate responsible research assessment approaches and interventions that take…
« On Friday, 17 February, the EOSC Association was formally recognized as a signatory to the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, sponsored by the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, CoARA.…
« DORA will be 10 years old in May 2023 and we are planning to mark the occasion! We’ll be holding a weeklong celebration for DORA’s 10th Anniversary and we’re inviting…
« The use of quantitative indicators and metrics in research assessment continues to generate a mix of enthusiasm, hostility and critique. To these we can now add growing interest in uses…
« The findings of 3 reports initiated as part of the Future Research Assessment Programme (FRAP) have been published today (12 December 2022).
Together the reports caution against moving to…
