ALTRALANG Journal has signed the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), signaling its commitment to fostering the evolution of more effective and meaningful ways to evaluate research.

Link (Signers - ALTRALANG Journal): https://sfdora.org/signers/

What does this signature mean for ALTRALANG Journal?

By signing DORA, ALTRALANG Journal is pledging to actively uphold and implement the recommendations that DORA sets forth for publishers.

- ALTRALANG Journal is committed to offering a diverse range of metrics that enable a comprehensive and equitable evaluation of research contributions.

- ALTRALANG journal maintains a flexible policy, imposing no restrictions on the number of references included in research articles. Furthermore, we will actively promote the citation of original research papers over review articles, thereby emphasizing the importance of primary literature in scholarly communication.

What is DORA?

DORA stands for the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment which was proposed by a group of editors and publishers of scholarly journals during the Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) in San Francisco, California, on 16th December 2012. For more information and to read the declaration, visit https://sfdora.org/read/.