San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment information
2012 manifesto against using the journal impact factor to assess a scientist's work
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
Formation
13 May 2013; 11 years ago (2013-05-13)
Headquarters
International organization
Leader
Stephen Curry, Imperial College London
Website
sfdora.org
The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is a statement that denounces the practice of correlating the journal impact factor to the merits of a specific scientist's contributions. Also according to this statement, this practice creates biases and inaccuracies when appraising scientific research. It also states that the impact factor is not to be used as a substitute "measure of the quality of individual research articles, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions".[1]
The declaration originated from the December 2012 meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, and was published on May 13, 2013, signed by more than 150 scientists and 75 scientific organizations.[1][2]
The American Society for Cell Biology states that, as of 30 May 2013[update], there were more than 6,000 individual signatories to the declaration and that the number of scientific organizations "signing on has gone from 78 to 231" within two weeks.[3] As of 14 December 2017, the number of individual signatories has risen to over 12,800 and the number of scientific organizations to 872.[4] Some organization signatories in 2017 include the British Library, Nature Research, BioMed Central, Springer Open and Cancer Research UK.[5]
DORA is also an organization whose mission is to "advance practical and robust approaches to research assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines".[6]
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Alberts, Bruce (May 17, 2013). "Impact Factor Distortions". Science. 340 (6134): 787. Bibcode:2013Sci...340..787A. doi:10.1126/science.1240319. PMID 23687012.
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Van Noorden, Richard (May 16, 2013). "Scientists join journal editors to fight impact-factor abuse". Nature News Blog.
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