(2 Mar 2023) Since 2013, DORA has advocated a number of principles for responsible research evaluation, including avoiding the use of journal-based metrics as surrogate measures of research quality, recognizing a broader range of scholarly outputs in promotion, tenure, and review practices, and the importance of responsible research assessment as a mechanism to help address the structural inequalities in academia.
To help put these objectives into practice, DORA was awarded funding by Arcadia, a charitable trust by Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, in 2021 to support Tools to Advance Research Assessment (Project TARA). One of the outputs of Project TARA is a series of tools to support community advocacy for responsible research assessment policies and practices, created in collaboration with Ruth Schmidt, Associate Professor at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and informed by internal and external community member input.
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