German Psychological Society (DGPs) CoARA Action Plan 2024

The DGPs already signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) in 2021 and was the first German scientific society to join the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) at the beginning of 2023. CoARA aims to ensure that various practices and activities that promote the intrinsic quality of research are recognized in the assessment of research. Not only publications should count, but also, for example, large published data sets or the development of research software; transparency and reproducibility are explicitly named as relevant quality criteria. A qualitative evaluation process should be supported by the responsible use of valid quantitative indicators. This Action Plan describes how the DGPs pursues the process of implementing the Core Commitments according to an Action Plan with defined milestones.

The Action Plan has been approved on 2024-06-29 by the Executive Committee of the DGPs.