Knowledge E has recently become an affiliate of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Knowledge E recently signed the declaration and joined more than 19,819 signatories in 146 countries. The San Francisco declaration seeks to improve the way scholarly research is assessed and evaluated, establishing a better way of calculating the scientific quality and impact of research.
The recommendations included in the declaration encourage a more transparent approach to assessing and investigating scientific content. The declaration also addresses concerns regarding the use of journal-based metrics for assessment since this type of measurement might depreciate the scientific quality of articles that might not have been published in high-impact journals. Instead, the DORA asks its signatories to adopt an article-based system of measurement to evaluate quality.
DORA aims to advance practical and robust approaches to research assessment globally and across all scholarly disciplines. The declaration was developed in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. It has become a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines and all key stakeholders, including funders, publishers, professional societies, institutions, and researchers.
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