mastodon 4.7.3Scientific Director and Professor of Quantitative Science Studies @cwts@social.cwts.nl, @universiteitleiden@mastodon.nl; Open Science Ambassador @universiteitleiden@mastodon.nl; Co-chair @RoRInstitute@indieweb.social; President @ASAPbio@mas.to; Editor-in-Chief MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review); Former Editor-in-Chief @QSS_ISSI@scicomm.xyz
There is considerable discussion about the (lack of) openness of metadata of journal articles, but how do preprint servers perform in terms of openly available metadata?
@neesjanvaneck@social.cwts.nl and I report our findings in a new @leidenmadtrics@social.cwts.nl blog post https://doi.org/10.59350/te702-2ya75.
Earlier this week an opinion piece authored by me and a number of great colleagues was published on the @upstream@scicomm.xyz blog. Our piece introduces criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases https://doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19.
We express our deep concerns about the treatment of @eLife@fediscience.org by the #WebOfScience and #Scopus databases. We see this as an example of databases hindering rather than supporting innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.
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@akademienl.social.
This work is funded by @OpenScienceNL@akademienl.social and coordinated by @cwts@social.cwts.nl colleagues @AndreaRE_altibel@glammr.us and Inge van der Weijden.
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@mstdn.social, 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 model, see https://metaror.org/publish-review-curate/.
@RoRInstitute@indieweb.social @aimos@masto.ai @cwts@social.cwts.nl
We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @MetaROR@scicomm.xyz and others.
@andrebrasil@social.cwts.nl and I wrote a blog post about this: https://doi.org/10.64000/76jhx-x7s23
Together with @crossref@mastodon.online we hope to receive input from the broader community on this issue. If you have any thoughts on this, please share them with us!
Many thanks to @gin@scicomm.xyz at Crossref for extensive discussions on this issue and thoughtful feedback on the blog post.
@RoRInstitute@indieweb.social @aimos@masto.ai @cwts@social.cwts.nl
eLife plays a leading role in promoting innovation in scholarly publishing. Innovation in publishing requires innovation in infrastructures and technologies.
Glad to see eLife received funding to continue its important work in this area!
How does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries?
Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors.
Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.
A PhD in paper mills? https://retractionwatch.com/2025/05/01/phd-paper-mills-wiley-leiden-springer-nature/
This #RetractionWatch piece is about a PhD position we have at @cwts@social.cwts.nl for a project on paper mills.
For more info, see https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/advancing-our-understanding-of-systematic-manipulation-paper-mills-wiley-cwts-partnership.
Deadline for applying is May 13.
The Data Infrastructure of the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie: An Enabling Intermediary between Raw Data and Analysis https://doi.org/10.1162/qss.a.20
This paper provides a very helpful overview of the data infrastructure of the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie.
How to flip your journal: A guide to more equitable publishing with #DiamondOA https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14652446
Colleagues from several Dutch university libraries have prepared a guide on how to flip a journal to diamond open access. It includes a lot of highly valuable advice!
The guide also covers the flip of Elsevier's Journal of Informetrics to @QSS_ISSI@scicomm.xyz, a journal owned by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics #ISSI and published by #MITPress.
Very much deserved, @annaveer@mastodon.social winner of the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 2024!
RE: @BarcelonaDORI@mastodon.social
I am really excited about the coordinated developments in the Netherlands to implement the commitments in the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.
Ana Ranitovic, chair of our national working group, has written a post summarizing the progress we are making in the Netherlands.
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"
Very proud of @Juan_P_Bascur@social.cwts.nl, who successfully defended his PhD thesis last week.
It was a great pleasure to supervise Juan's research!
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@akademienl.social 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.
The #MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) platform has been launched https://metaror.org/.
How does it work? More information about the MetaROR approach, including the publish-review-curate model used by the platform, is available at https://metaror.org/about-metaror/.
We also created a flowchart summarizing the MetaROR approach.
@RoRInstitute@indieweb.social @aimos@masto.ai @cwts@social.cwts.nl
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@scicomm.xyz. 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 @andrebrasil@social.cwts.nl for organizing this.
@cwts@social.cwts.nl @RoRInstitute@indieweb.social @aimos@masto.ai
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@social.cwts.nl 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@social.cwts.nl with colleagues in Brazil!
@leidenmadtrics@social.cwts.nl
@BarcelonaDORI@mastodon.social
Academic publishing is a multibillion-dollar industry. It’s not always good for science https://theconversation.com/academic-publishing-is-a-multibillion-dollar-industry-its-not-always-good-for-science-250056
"What could alternative academic publishing practices that safeguard the integrity of research look like? The 'publish-review-curate' model is one example. This model has been adopted by community research initiative @MetaROR@scicomm.xyz."
@LucyMontgomery_@toot.community @RoRInstitute@indieweb.social @aimos@masto.ai @cwts@social.cwts.nl
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@mastodon.social 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 those of others!
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"
On the limits of causal theory for studying inequalities in science https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_c_00347
"This does not mean we should completely omit causal models ... they can help to disentangle concomitant mechanisms that are hard to study independently otherwise. At the same time construction of causal graphs can in many situations alert us from presence of statistical artifacts or colliders ... this is not a call for not using causal models, but a call for their responsible use"
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 them attractive research areas for Indian scholars seeking visibility in global journals"
