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• Post #2399504

  Papers mills and other manipulative practices are a major problem in the scientific publishing system. Addressing this problem requires an in-depth system-level understanding of dynamics leading to these practices. At @cwts we have PhD position to work on this! https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2025/q2/15601-phd-candidate-paper-mills-and-systematic-manipulation-in-research-publishin

• Post #2077718

  Very much looking forward to the Paris Conference on Open Research Information, organized on Sep 23-24 at Sorbonne University https://barcelona-declaration.org/conference/. At this conference signatories and supporters of @BarcelonaDORI will get together to develop a joint roadmap for implementing the commitments in the Barcelona Declaration. Is your organization working on transitioning to open research information? Consider attending the conference to share your experiences and learn from th...

• Post #2005869

  Three interesting vacancies at NWO for program leaders in the area of open science: Citizen science/societal engagement: https://www.nwo.nl/vacatures/programmaleider-citizen-science/societal-engagement FAIR/open data: https://www.nwo.nl/vacatures/programmaleider-fair/open-data Open scholarly communication: https://www.nwo.nl/vacatures/programmaleider-open-scholarly-communication Deadline is January 7. @HLdeJonge

• Post #1897556

  At @cwts we have two exciting job openings in the area of open science: PhD candidate Monitoring Open Science Policies and Practices https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2023/q2-english/23-23413576phd-candidate-monitoring-open-science-policies-and-practices Researcher Monitoring Open Science Policies and Practices https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2023/q2-english/23-23213575researcher-monitoring-open-science-policies-and-practices Both positions aim to contribute to pro...

• Post #1652023

  The early days of peer review: five insights from historical reports https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03287-4 "The initial process was much more informal than the one scientists know today ... Some early referees’ reports have news about their holidays or what else they are doing"

• Post #1530127

  #WebOfScience just announced that it has started to index preprints in addition to journal articles https://clarivate.com/blog/the-preprint-citation-index-linking-preprints-to-the-trusted-web-of-science-ecosystem/. This is a significant development toward giving full recognition to preprints as important research outputs. Together with @cwts colleague @neesjanvaneck, I'm working on a blog post comparing indexing of preprints in Web of Science with other bibliographic databases. Stay tu...

• Post #1437357

  I just had the pleasure of being invited to comment on the excellent report 'Can REF output quality scores be assigned by AI? Experimental evidence' by Mike Thelwall and colleagues http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/ai/Can_REF_output_quality_scores_be_assigned_by_AI.pdf. I offered four brief reflections, commenting on what I think are key issues in the use of AI for research assessment purposes, in particular in the context of the UK REF. @RoRInstitute @jameswilsdon

• Post #1437356

  Lots of great conferences in field of science studies, but very disappointing to see that most conferences offer (almost) no opportunity for virtual participation. https://metascience.info/ "streaming options for limited sessions" https://www.icssi.org/ No option for online participation https://cns-iu.github.io/workshops/2023-07-02_issi/ "we may live stream some of the conference" https://www.sti2023.org/ "conference will be organized as hybrid e...

• Post #1437355

  In last Friday's @cwts seminar Diana Hicks offered a critical perspective on open science. I couldn't attend, but just watched the recording https://www.cwts.nl/seminars/announcements?article=n-s2y264. Reform movements in science (RRA, OS, EDI, etc.) tend to develop dogmas that are being accepted uncritically. Good to see critical analyses like Diana's that challenge these dogmas. However, many of Diana's arguments don't really convince me, and they som...

• Post #1437353

  Metascience can transform Indian research https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/11/08/metascience-can-transform-indian-research/ "stark misalignment in research priorities arises from focus on diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s ... While cancers account for <5% of country’s disease burden, it is subject of nearly 22% of India’s health research publications" This is partly due to these diseases being "more common in high-income countries, making...

• Post #1436197

  Journal of Data and Information Science (#JDIS) organizes special issue on 'Fostering SDG research through the lens of bibliometrics'. https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jdis-2025-0027 Special issue is organized in collaboration with @MetaROR. Submissions will go through MetaROR's publish-review-curate process. Exciting to see synergy between MetaROR's innovative publish-review-curate model and more established publishing model of #JDIS! Special thanks to @and...

• Post #1418728

  On November 15/16 the #JEDI annual meeting will take place https://dpjedi.org/events/jedi-2023-annual-meeting.html. There will be two panel discussions: (1) Experiences with correcting the scientific record (2) Transparency in peer review: challenges and opportunities I'm delighted to chair the second panel!

• Post #1416932

  Why coverage matters https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why-coverage-matters-invisibility-of-agricultural-research-from-the-global-south-may-be-an-obstacle-to-development "another bibliographic world is possible where knowledge is more diverse and accessible – and this is important for agricultural research to be more visible and accessible in and from the Global South ... While currently no single commercial bibliographic database has good coverage of agriculture, new generation o...

• Post #1327268

  In 2023 we reorganized our way of working at @cwts and started three focal areas https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-focal-areas-of-cwts. Would you like to know more about our focal areas? Read the following blog posts on @leidenmadtrics: Engagement & Inclusion: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/introducing-the-cwts-focal-area-engagement-and-inclusion-a-vision-and-roadmap Evaluation & Culture: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/transforming-research-culture-int...

• Post #1327266

  At @cwts we do lot of work on open science (OS), but to what extent do we practice OS ourselves? Our PhD candidate @anaparroncab discussed this with colleagues at CWTS. Ana has shared her observations in this @leidenmadtrics post: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/walking-the-talk-a-peak-into-open-science-practices-at-cwts. "My colleagues ... seem keenly interested in continuing to learn and uptake OS practices ... to have good OS culture you need to have good culture as foundati...

• Post #1316094

  Today @PeerJ published the paper 'The experiences of COVID-19 preprint authors: a survey of researchers about publishing and receiving feedback on their work during the pandemic' by Narmin Rzayeva, @SusanaOliHenriques, @stephenpinfield and myself https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15864. This paper is a result of a project of @RoRInstitute in which we studied the response of the scholarly communication system to the COVID-19 pandemic https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17125394.v1....

• Post #1316091

  Interesting results in @digitalscience and @springernature #StateOfOpenData report https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24428194.v1. This graph shows a breakdown by field of the openness of survey respondents to four open science practices. The pattern is almost the same for all fields: Researchers are most strongly in support of open access, followed by open data, then open peer review and finally preprinting.

• Post #1316090

  “It takes a village to write a really good paper”: A normative framework for peer reviewing in philosophy https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12670 Glad to see this proposal by Samantha Copeland and Lavinia Marin for peer review reform in philosophy: "We argue that the 'Democracy & Transparency' (https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1544) school of thought for peer review captures best the norms we have described above as desirable for philosophy, as well as capturing the best...

• Post #1316086

  COVID’s preprint bump set to have lasting effect on research publishing https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00401-4 In this piece by @Dalmeet our @cwts PhD candidate Narmin Rzayeva shares her reflections on our paper 'The experiences of COVID-19 preprint authors: a survey of researchers about publishing and receiving feedback on their work during the pandemic' https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15864. @stephenpinfield @polka

• Post #1316082

  The peer review system no longer works to guarantee academic rigour - a different approach is needed https://theconversation.com/the-peer-review-system-no-longer-works-to-guarantee-academic-rigour-a-different-approach-is-needed-244092 In this piece @stephenpinfield, Kathy Zeiler and I make the case for the publish-review-curate model, the model we use in the #MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform launched earlier this week. For more details about MetaROR's publish-review-curate m...

• Post #1316081

  Preprinting helps accelerate dissemination of scientific knowledge. To what extent do researchers adopt preprinting? And how does this vary by discipline and region? Together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield, I just published an article answering these questions. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xdwc4_v2 @cwts @RoRInstitute @ASAPbio

• Post #1316080

  Today I had the pleasure to be a panelist in the session 'moving beyond journals' at the Royal Society Future of Scientific Publishing conference. I argued that scientific publishing is going through a transformation addressing the challenges of openness, curation and meaningful dialogue.

• Post #1312316

  The teams of @aimos and @RoRInstitute are working hard to set up the MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform for publication and peer review of research in the field of metaresearch, or research on research. We just published a short piece in #EASST Review to introduce our plans for MetaROR to the science and technology studies (STS) community https://www.easst.net/article/metaror-a-new-form-of-scholarly-publishing-and-peer-review-for-sts/. @jasonchin @siminevazire @aidybarnett @alexh @ste...

• Post #1312309

  Excited to share that later this month @RoRInstitute and @aimos will launch the new #MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform, offering open peer review of articles in the field of metaresearch. Together with Kathryn Zeiler, I will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the platform. Other collaborators include @aidybarnett, @alexh, @andrebrasil, @jameswilsdon, @jasonchin, @stephenpinfield, among others. See https://researchonresearch.org/metaror-launch/ for information about our launch events on Nov...

• Post #1251426

  Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach https://doi.org/10.64000/vfezq-pea87 Together with @andrebrasil I just published this blog post about @crossref DOI registration practices for @MetaROR. While our focus is on the MetaROR platform operated by @RoRInstitute and @aimos, the issues we discuss are of relevance for Publish-Review-Curate infrastructures more in general. @cwts @ASAPbio

• Post #1251425

  RE: https://social.ftm.nl/@FTM_nl/116004933210740885 Goed stuk over het wetenschappelijk publicatiesysteem. Mijn voorstel is om het systeem op de schop te gooien: "niet eerst op journals wachten voordat zij de kwaliteit beoordelen, maar gelijk publiceren en vervolgens in alle openheid de peerreview doen" https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/wetenschappelijke-uitgeverijen-maken-melkkoe-van-gratis-toegang-tot-wetenschap?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign...

• Post #1251424

  Recognising and rewarding of open science in HR-policy https://www.openscience.nl/en/recognising-and-rewarding-of-open-science-in-hr-policy This post discusses the efforts Dutch research institutions are making to strengthen the way they recognize and reward open science. I like in particular the 'Room for every PhD Candidate' initiative at @utrechtuniversity. This work is funded by @OpenScienceNL and coordinated by @cwts colleagues @AndreaRE_altibel and Inge van der Weijden.

• Post #1246404

  Towards the democratisation of open research information for scientometrics and science policy: the Campinas experience https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/towards-the-democratisation-of-open-research-information-for-scientometrics-and-science-policy-the-campinas-experience Great blog post by Alysson Mazoni and @rodrigocostas about opportunities and challenges in scaling up the use of open research information. Also a great example of the value of our collaborations at @cwts with colleagues...

• Post #1246401

  Bezuiniging op Open Science NL, superzonde! https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/bezuiniging-op-open-science-nl-superzonde In dit stukje leg ik uit waarom de halvering van het budget van @OpenScienceNL zo zonde is. De open science transitie is essentieel om ons onderzoeksysteem in Nederland in te richten op een manier die aansluit bij de verwachtingen van de samenleving. @cwts @universiteitleiden

• Post #1236043

  Leiden rankings to add open-source version in 2024 https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-universities-2023-9-leiden-rankings-to-add-open-source-version-in-2024/ "@cwts at Leiden University in the Netherlands, which publishes university rankings, plans to start a new ranking based entirely on open data and open algorithms in 2024." @neesjanvaneck @OpenAlex #COKI