Pan-European agreement aims for broader measures of researchers’ contributions to science.
Researchers across all disciplines worldwide could soon be assessed under a new agreement that drops impact factors and other standard metrics.Universities, scientific academies, funding institutions and other organizations around the world will have the option to sign a document that would oblige signatories to change how they assess researchers for jobs, promotions and grants.
The details of the agreement were published on 20 July. The intention behind the two-month head start, Berghmans says, was to give universities time to fully consider the document and the ramifications of signing. The process is likely to involve reviews by institutions’ upper levels of administration, and perhaps approval by legal departments, he says.
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, a biophysical chemist at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, backs the initiative, but warns that many universities still know little about it.Only two universities in the United Kingdom — the University of Glasgow and Loughborough University — participated in the assembly. By comparison, the Netherlands was represented by a dozen universities. Berghmans notes that universities in the Netherlands are generally “well ahead” in.
DORA, a statement originally drafted in 2013, calls for doing away with impact factors in issues of hiring and promotion. The initiative has been signed by more than 19,400 individuals and 2,600 organizations worldwide.
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