OpenXiv commitment to the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

Last reviewed 2026-05-19. Reviewed annually.

OpenXiv (ISSN 3120-9556) is a DORA signatory. This page describes the operational principles we hold ourselves to as an open-access preprint server. We review this commitment annually and publish updates here when our practices change.

1. No journal-impact rankings

We do not display or expose journal-impact factor (JIF), CiteScore, h-index, or any equivalent journal-based metric — anywhere in the UI, API, or metadata exports. When a paper is later published in a peer-reviewed journal, we record the bibliographic reference; we do not record the journal's metrics.

2. Multi-dimensional trust signals, never a single score

Our trust passport reports independent lanes — identity, citation integrity, math integrity, code integrity, data integrity, disclosure compliance — as a vector. We will not introduce a composite trust score, popularity ranking, or leaderboard. Readers calibrate against the dimensions that matter to their use case.

3. Forensic assessment, falsifiable refusals

Submissions are evaluated against a structured taxonomy of failure modes: hallucinated citations, math errors, methodology violations, plagiarism, scope mismatch, disclosure non-compliance. Refusals cite specific evidence — page numbers, citation identifiers, reproducible checks — and are published with the structured failure code. Authors may respond publicly and may resubmit revised versions. Past refusals do not bar future submissions. The full refusal framework lives in the submission policy and the code of conduct.

4. Diverse outputs valued on their own merits

Papers, replication studies, negative results, and methods notes receive equal first-class treatment in metadata and DOI assignment. We do not weight outputs by perceived importance or by the prestige of the venues an author has previously published in.

5. No author popularity dynamics

We do not surface author leaderboards, citation rankings, or aggregate refusal counts on author profiles. Each work is assessed on its own. The author profile page shows publications and endorsements only; it does not aggregate "scores" across them.

Scope acknowledgment

OpenXiv currently accepts LaTeX-source preprints in mathematics and physics. Dataset and software preservation, replication-study tracks, and expanded subject coverage are planned but not yet implemented. We will update this page as scope expands so that stated commitments and operational reality stay aligned.

Responsible operator

David Alfyorov, operator. Contact: davidich.alfyorov@gmail.com. Material changes to this commitment are announced on the transparency report at least 30 days before they take effect.