TY - JOUR
T1 - Five years post-DORA
T2 - Promoting best practices for research assessment
AU - Schmid, Sandra L.
N1 - Funding Information:
DOI:10.1091/mbc.E17-08-0534 *Address correspondence to: Sandra L. Schmid (sandra.schmid@utsouthwestern .edu). Abbreviations used: ASCB, American Society for Cell Biology; DORA, San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment; JIF, Journal Impact Factor; NIH, National Institutes of Health. © 2017 Schmid. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biol - ogy under license from the author(s). Two months after publication it is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0). “ASCB®,” “The American Society for Cell Biology®,” and “Molecular Biology of the Cell®” are registered trademarks of The American Society for Cell Biology.
Funding Information:
Funding organizations in Europe (EMBO, Wellcome Trust, others), the United States (National Institutes of Health [NIH], National Science Foundation), and around the world (Australia, Canada, and others) have instituted, strengthened, and/or made more explicit their guidelines to curtail the use of JIFs and to allow researchers to articulate the significance of their own work, through selected and annotated bibliographies. I serve on several review panels, for NIH, the Wellcome Trust, and the Jane Coffin Childs Advisory committee, and in making their funding decisions, these groups focus exclusively on the scientific content of the papers, not where they have been published.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Schmid.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was penned 5 years ago to articulate best practices for how we communicate and judge our scientific contributions. In particular, it adamantly declared that Journal Impact Factor (JIF) should never be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research contributions, or for hiring, promotion, or funding decisions. Since then, a heightened awareness of the damaging practice of using JIFs as a proxy for the quality of individual papers, and to assess an individual's or institution's accomplishments has led to changes in policy and the design and application of best practices to more accurately assess the quality and impact of our research. Herein I summarize the considerable progress made and remaining challenges that must be met to ensure a fair and meritocratic approach to research assessment and the advancement of research.
AB - The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was penned 5 years ago to articulate best practices for how we communicate and judge our scientific contributions. In particular, it adamantly declared that Journal Impact Factor (JIF) should never be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research contributions, or for hiring, promotion, or funding decisions. Since then, a heightened awareness of the damaging practice of using JIFs as a proxy for the quality of individual papers, and to assess an individual's or institution's accomplishments has led to changes in policy and the design and application of best practices to more accurately assess the quality and impact of our research. Herein I summarize the considerable progress made and remaining challenges that must be met to ensure a fair and meritocratic approach to research assessment and the advancement of research.
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U2 - 10.1091/mbc.E17-08-0534
DO - 10.1091/mbc.E17-08-0534
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29084913
AN - SCOPUS:85032643309
SN - 1059-1524
VL - 28
SP - 2941
EP - 2944
JO - Molecular Biology of the Cell
JF - Molecular Biology of the Cell
IS - 22
ER -