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DORA
Description
1. 1. Do not use journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist’s contributions, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions.
Abbreviation: DORA
MitoPedia topics: BEC
Selected quotations
- The Journal Impact Factor .. was originally created as a tool to help librarians identify journals to purchase, not as a measure of the scientific quality of research in an article.
- Outputs other than research articles will grow in importance in assessing research effectiveness in the future, but the peer-reviewed research paper will remain a central research output that informs research assessment.
- need to assess research on its own merits rather than on the basis of the journal in which the research is published.
