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title: "Leiden Manifesto"
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=== Public endorsement ===
LIBER, a collaboration of European research libraries, issued a substantial review of the Leiden Manifesto in 2017, concluding that it was a "solid foundation" on which academic libraries could base their assessment of metrics.
Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, announced on 14 July 2020 that it would use the Leiden Manifesto to guide its development of improved research evaluation. Elsevier stated that the principles of the manifesto were already close in nature to their 2019 CiteScore metrics, which was in summary "improved calculation methodology" for "a more robust, fair and faster indicator of research impact". 
Loughborough University's LIS-Bibliometrics committee chose to base their own principles on the Leiden Manifesto, instead of the DORA, because the manifesto takes a "broader approach to the responsible use of all bibliometrics across a range of disciplines and settings", according to their policy manager Elizabeth Gadd. Stephen Curry, chair of the DORA steering committee, commented on this statement by emphasizing that DORA was aiming to extend its "disciplinary and geographical reach". 

=== Further applications ===
David Moher and his co-authors referenced the Leiden Manifesto in a perspective for Issues in Science and Technology, writing that academic institutions were not asking the "right questions" (concerning research planning, timeframe, reproducibility, and results) when assessing scientists. They criticize what they see as an obsession with journal impact factors and the "gaming" of scientometrics, advocating that institutions use DORA and the Leiden Manifesto principles instead when assessing individual scientists and research.
In a letter in Science and Engineering Ethics, T. Kanchan and Kewal Krishan called the Leiden Manifesto "one of the best criteria" for assessing scientific research, especially considering the "rat race" for publications in the scholarly community. They also argue that use of the Manifesto will lead to "progress of science and society at large".

== See also ==
San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
Nature (journal)
Scientometrics (journal)
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
H-index
Impact factor
Altmetrics

== References ==