Springer Nature has extended its commitment to ensuring that the impact and quality of research is assessed in a balanced and fair way by formally signing up as to the principles outlined in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, commonly known as DORA. In doing so, Springer Nature becomes the first large research publisher to sign the declaration and commit its entire owned journal portfolio to providing a number of metrics so that research can be assessed fairly.
Springer Nature has long advocated for a balanced approach to research evaluation and responsible authorship practices and this announcement follows Springer Nature’s imprints Nature Research, Springer Open and BMC who became signatories in 2017. Nature Research journals, in particular, have advocated against the use of journal-level metrics to assess the value of individual research articles since the 1990s.
Introduced in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco, DORA recognises a ‘need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions and other parties.
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