Electrospun nanofibers of a polyaniline (PANi)/ (?)-camphor-10-sulfonic acid (HCSA)/poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) composite doped with different variants of graphene oxide (GO) were fabricated and evaluated as chemiresistor gas sensors operating at room temperature. A new strategy for enhancing PANi/PEO gas sensor performance is demonstrated using GO dopants reduced via thermal (trGO) or chemical (crGO) routes. By varying the chemical reduction duration (6 h, crGO-6 or 24 h, crGO-24), tunable enhancement of sensor response was achieved. Upon exposure to short-chain aliphatic alcohol vapors, the partially reduced crGO-6 dopant exhibited higher response than GO and crGO-24, suggesting that the dopant enhances sensor performance via increased electrical conductivity over neat GO, and enhanced hydrogen bonding capability over the further-reduced crGO-24 variant. Sensor arrays consisting of PANi/PEO doped with trGO, crGO-6 or crGO-24 moieties successfully identified methanol, ethanol, and 1-propanol vapors using principal component analysis (PCA). Graphical abstract