In recent years, there have been numerous calls to change research evaluation policies to rely less on journal-level citation metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), including two key international initiatives. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), developed at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2012, calls for the use of article-level metrics, greater transparency in research evaluation policies and procedures, and consideration of all types of research outputs, not just journal articles.

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Original publication:Winter, Caroline. "Altmetrics for Research Evaluation." Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 3 Jun. 2022, https://ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/altmetrics-for-research-evaluation/.

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