Community Call: Introducing the 2022 Project TARA tools to support responsible research assessment | DORA

"Join DORA for a community call to introduce two new responsible research evaluation tools and provide feedback on future tool development. The toolkit is part of Project TARA, which aims to identify, understand, and make visible the criteria and standards universities use to make hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions. This interactive call will explore these new tools, which were each created to help community members who are seeking:

• Strategies on how to debias committees and deliberative processes: It is increasingly recognized that more diverse decision-making panels make better decisions. Learn how to debias your committees and decision-making processes with this one-page brief.
• Ideas on how to incorporate a wider range of contributions in their evaluation policies and practices: Capturing scholarly “impact” often relies on familiar suspects like h-index, JIF, and citations, despite evidence that these indicators are narrow, often misleading, and generally insufficient to capture the full richness of scholarly work. Learn how to consider a wider breadth of contributions in assessing the value of academic activities with this one-page brief...."