San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

This issue also features a reprint (both in Czech and English) of The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), initiated by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) together with a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals. It recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scientific research are evaluated. The group met in December 2012 during the ASCB Annual Meeting in San Francisco and subsequently circulated a draft declaration among various stakeholders. DORA in its present form has benefited from input by many of the original signers listed below, including that of the ASCR in May 2013.