Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A learned society signs DORA and updates its journal-prize criteria to remove JIF-based eligibility.
- Is an instance
A research institute signs DORA and publishes a revised academic-promotion framework citing the declaration.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An institution signs DORA but its promotion guidelines continue to list JIF thresholds.
- Not an instance
A publisher claims DORA alignment while still marketing journals primarily by impact factor.
Editorial commentary
Signatories pledge to apply DORA's recommendations in their own assessment practices. For organisational signatories this typically implies revising hiring, promotion, tenure, funding and reward policies so that journal-based metrics no longer dominate the evaluation of individual researchers or outputs. DORA does not audit signatories, but its working groups publish case studies and assessment-reform toolkits. Becoming a signatory is symbolic until paired with documented policy change; signatory status is therefore best read as a public commitment rather than evidence of completed reform.
References
- sfdora.org signatories register. DORA case studies database.
Also known as
DORA signatory organisation · Signatory to DORA
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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