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Research assessment

Research assessment is the process of judging the quality and impact of projects, people or institutions to decide funding, hiring and promotion.

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Related to

  • Research assessment relates to CoARA. Agreement to reform how research is assessed.
  • Research assessment relates to DORA. Declaration on how research should be assessed.
Details

Description

How research is assessed shapes what researchers publish and where. Reform initiatives such as DORA and CoARA ask for assessment based on the quality of the work itself rather than on journal-level metrics alone.

Attributes

Attributes of Research assessment
urlhttps://sfdora.org/read/
identifierswikidata: Q16685913
statusactive
governanceNot applicable
prominenceextended
typeConcept
Tagsfunction: evaluation, region: global

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Last reviewed: 2026-11-12

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