Thinking aloud. The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is undoubtedly a good idea, in my view. The thrust of the declaration states that research should only be assessed at the unit level, rather than at the level of the journal/venue. Certainly, I wish DORA was better worded to include more strongly disciplines where the specific measure of Impact Factor isn’t used (though it disavows “journal-based metrics” more widely).