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Researcher Impact Framework: Building Audience-Focused Evidence-Based Impact Narratives | DORA In 2022 Trinity College Dublin launched The Researcher Impact Framework (RIF), a tool designed to help researchers understand and communicate the impact of their work in four key areas: Knowledge gene...

¡Sí! ¡Los enfoques narrativos y cualitativos ayudan a centrarse en la calidad y el impacto de las contribuciones! El Marco de referencia de impacto para investigadores/as puede ayudar a comprender y comunicar el impacto de su trabajo en esas cuatro áreas clave 👉 sfdora.org/resource/res...

The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November:
aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

Join DORA Vice-Chair @rnls.bsky.social at the UK @coarassessment.bsky.social National Chapter Meeting “Moving Principles Into Practice, Together”
3rd Sept, in London & online!
Register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1469153370...
Rebecca will share about our Practical Guide for HEIs 👉 bit.ly/DORA-Guide

@damianpattinson.bsky.social now properly tagged 🤓

Thanks for the shout out! We work closely with the relationship between research assessment and scholarly communication, and our last guest blog posts by @metaror.bsky.social, @f1000publishing.bsky.social and @elife.bsky.social explore these connections, innovations in publishing and peer review

Why are indexers unable to see that peer review can be more than a thumbs up or a thumbs down? | DORA 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. At eLife we believe that the conte...

"Who controls the scientific literature?"
New guest blog post by @fionahutton.bsky.social, Damian Pattison and @drpeterrodgers.bsky.social explores the @elife.bsky.social model and the challenges of driving change in scientific publishing.
Read it here 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/30/s...

Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review of Scholarly Articles, Books, and Funding Proposals: Recommendations by the CoARA Working Group on Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review In this pre-endorsed publication, the CoARA Working Group on Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review calls for systemic efforts to  acknowledge, and appropriately reward, peer review as integral to the…

CoARA has released recommendations on how to recognize and reward #PeerReview. Bernd Pulverer, Head of @embopress.org, is producer and co-chair of the working group and Sandra Bendiscioli, Senior Policy Officer at EMBO, is co-author of Chapter 4. 🧪 zenodo.org/records/1596...
#research #publishing

Open Education 101 Series - SPARC

Our #OpenEducation 101 kicks off Aug. 13 @ 2pm EDT. Intro session will cover core principles, key terms & how #OpenEd connects to #OpenAccess & #OpenScience. Learn how OE can remove barriers & expand opportunities for students & educators. Free & open to all. Register: sparcopen.org/news/2025/op...

Narrative CVs are rewriting academic stories and identities - Impact of Social Sciences A new study explores how narrative CVs are reshaping research evaluation and academic representation

💥 New: Narrative CVs are rewriting academic stories and identities

✍️ Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner & Judit Varga #AcademicSky #ResearchAssessment

We are grateful to the Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya (AQuAS) for translating "Unintended Cognitive and Systems Biases" into Catalan! It identifies biases that can influence hiring, promotion, and tenure. Descarrega't la infografia 👉
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Fifteen years later, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper despite study authors’ protests Belated decision on widely disputed 2010 study pleases some critics but puzzles and dismays others

Arsenic life: completely agree with @science.org & @cope that papers with flawed core claims should be retracted or -much better- ‚withdrawn‘ by the authors (a tool dev @embopress.org). Self-correction must be de-stigmatized & become a +ve indicator in res. assessment www.science.org/content/arti...

The research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research | DORA The innovative F1000Research open research publishing model was launched in 2012 and was born out of a desire to start again, thinking about the technology and tools at the time and redesigning how we...

"The research assessment ecosystem hinders innovative publication models that address our biggest problems in research." 💬 Guest blog post by @rnls.bsky.social, Director of @f1000publishing.bsky.social & DORA Vice-Chair, on #ResearchAssessment and #ScholarlyCommunication 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/23/a...

More Than Our Rank | INORMS The More Than Our Rank Initiative provides an opportunity for academic institutions to highlight the many and various ways they serve the world that are not reflected in their ranking position.

Thrilled to welcome University of Bremen & the University of Oldenburg as new German #MoreThanOurRank signatories! Celebrate diverse excellence―learn more: inorms.net/more-than-ou... 🌍🙌 and shorturl.at/W6jja

Want to be part of the change to improve #research culture and practice? Join the Responsible Research in Action Unconference 2025 in Berlin, Sept 22-24 ⬇️

#ResponsibleResearch #ResponsibleResearchInAction #ResponsibleResearchPractice #RRiA

Three challenges for scientific publishing

Today I had the pleasure to be a panelist in the session 'moving beyond journals' at the @royalsociety.org Future of Scientific Publishing conference.

I argued that scientific publishing is going through a transformation addressing the challenges of openness, curation and meaningful dialogue.

Just getting ready to do this. Looking forward to the discussion especially!

"... research assessment is a human process, inherently subjective and imperfect, but with potential for improvement and reflection." - read on insightful contributions from EMBO's Young Investigator Network on reforming research assessment👇

Online seminar tomorrow!

Join RoRI's Alex Rushforth and Gunnar Sivertsen for a presentation based on a recent RoRI working paper exploring how national research assessment systems are evolving across 13 countries: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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We’re co-developing a Good Practice Exchange (GPEx) for research and innovation culture with the community – and we want your input!

Have your say in our survey👉
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GPExConsul...

⏰Closes 10 August 2025

We’re excited to announce a new accessibility feature on our website: optional automatic translations! Powered by Google Translate, this is part of our ongoing commitment to making our content more accessible and inclusive for our global community 🌍
Feedback welcome! 👉 sfdora.org/2025/07/10/a...

Our Program Manager Giovanna Lima will share how implementing #ResponsibleResearchAssessment can help advance #SocietalImpact, along with colleagues at @arisimpacts.bsky.social and Erasmus University!
Join the The Pew Charitable Trusts event next Tuesday July 15th, 10am-11am EST 👉 bit.ly/4kuXpdA

Judging research on its own merits: How MetaROR supports better research assessment | DORA MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR), and other publish-review-curate platforms (e.g., Copernicus, eLife, F1000, Open Research Europe, Peer Community In) challenge the current state of scholarly publish...

Innovations in #ScholarlyCommunication and #ResponsibleResearchAssessment need to go hand in hand. New guest post by @jasonchin.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, and Kathryn Zeiler, editors at @metaror.bsky.social, share insights on these connections. Read more👇
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Thanks for the shout out, Michael! We'd be curious to hear how it relates to your experience. Also, if you have any suggestions for v2, please do send them our way: info@sfdora.org

This is a great guide from @dorassessment.bsky.social on improving research assessment in your organization. I wish it had been around when we started DORA implementation a few years ago! zenodo.org/records/1500...

DORA Steering Committee attendees at #Metascience2025 @dorassessment.bsky.social - great to see you in person!

Thank you, #Metascience2025 & everyone who took the time to connect! We're delighted with sharing resources & meaningful connections at the DORA booth! @coarassessment.bsky.social @metaror.bsky.social @ginnybarbour.bsky.social @rnls.bsky.social @scurry.bsky.social @lizziegadd.bsky.social

I’m delighted to see an old colleague, Kelly Cobey, as co-chair of @dorassessment.bsky.social at #MetaScience2025 presenting A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations

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Our Co-Chair Kelly Cobey presents our new Practical Guide for Research Performing Organizations in the session "The many dimensions of rethinking research assessment" at #Metascience25 - have you already explored it? You can download it at bit.ly/DORA-Guide

How about a group photo of the RRA community at #Metascience2025? If you're around, we'd love to have a group photo with you! Make sure to drop by Jeffrey Hall, UCL IOE during the coffee break tomorrow July 02, at 11am! Today we got some good ones of the DORA team with @coarassessment.bsky.social 🤩

@wellcometrust.bsky.social CEO John-Arne Røttingen shared how Wellcome got interesting results with partial randomization in research funding in the final panel of #MS25! We explored this topic in our Funders Group earlier this year - you can read about this practice at sfdora.org/funder-discu...