Our stance

 

We are committed to advancing open, rigorous, and socially relevant scholarship. We uphold high standards of research integrity, transparency, and editorial independence, and we promote practices that improve the discoverability, usability, and real-world value of research outputs. In particular, we support responsible research assessment, transparent reporting, and—where appropriate—reproducible research practices, while aligning scholarly communication with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 

Our Stance on DORA We publicly endorse the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and support Responsible Research Assessment (RRA). We recognize that journal-level metrics (e.g., Journal Impact Factor) are not appropriate proxies for the quality of individual articles or the contributions of individual researchers. We therefore encourage evaluation approaches that focus on the intrinsic merit and demonstrated contribution of research—such as originality, methodological soundness, transparency, reproducibility, and societal relevance—while recognizing diverse research outputs (e.g., datasets, software, protocols, preprints, and other scholarly contributions).

SDG Publishers Compact We are proud to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) Publishers Compact, which calls on publishers to help accelerate progress toward achieving the SDGs by 2030. This support represents a clear commitment to advancing sustainable publishing practices and acting as a champion of the SDGs during the Decade of Action (2020–2030). In practice, we aim to publish and promote research that can inform, develop, and inspire action toward sustainable development, while continuously improving how we communicate and evidence research impact beyond traditional indicators.