Oxford University Press (OUP) has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which is a worldwide initiative that recognizes the need to improve the ways in which scholarly research is evaluated. In signing the declaration, OUP is demonstrating support for the responsible assessment of individual scholarly research outputs on their own merits.
Recognizing the value and impact of individual research contributions is a principle that OUP has long committed to implementing. In addition to joining community initiatives, such as DORA, OUP is a participant in the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) which enhances the discoverability and use of scholarly citation data to support the assessment of the impact of research.
To measure and promote the value of individual research outputs, article-level metrics are available for all articles published on the Oxford Academic platform, including article downloads, citations and Altmetric Attention Scores. OUP will also shortly enable researchers to record author contributions using the CRediT taxonomy, increasing the transparency of author roles and enabling authors to get credit for their contributions.
As a DORA signatory, OUP will continue to promote a wide range of measures of research impact as part of its commitment to the responsible use of metrics and recognition of high-quality research.
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