Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at RFOs: Quick-Reference Sheets from the Practical Guide

“Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at RFOs: Quick-Reference Sheets from the Practical Guide” is a set of concise, action-oriented resources designed to support RFOs to engage with RRA and catalyze action. The one-page Reference Sheets provide a highly distilled summary of each section of the full Practical Guide for Research Funding Organizations, covering:

• Introduction to the Guide
• Key activities for embedding RRA
• Key moments in funding agency research assessment:
  • Establishing funding programs and calls
  • Making funding decisions
  • Setting grant terms and conditions
  • Monitoring and evaluating grants and programs
  • Communicating and engaging with your communities
• Responsible Research Assessment and its place in the research system

To support ease of use, we have uploaded to Zenodo:

• One consolidated file containing all Quick-Reference Sheets
• Individual files for each sheet, allowing you to download and share specific topics as needed

A series of Informational Briefs are also available at https://sfdora.org/resource/practical-guide-for-rfos-informational-briefs/

The RFO Practical Guide has been developed by DORA in collaboration with the Global Research Council RRA Working Group and Science Europe, and has engaged funders worldwide in five co-creation sessions. We are grateful to all who have contributed to it.

The RFO Practical Guide is a sister volume of a similar volume for Research Performing Organizations, which has been created as part of Project TARA, supported by Arcadia.

These materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial CC BY-NC. They may be freely used, copied, and adapted for non-commercial purposes, provided that the source is acknowledged.

Cite as: DORA San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. (2026). Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at RFOs: Quick-Reference Sheets from the Practical Guide. DORA. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19615426

This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving their policies and practices. Find other resources in the toolkit here.