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🤝 How can we foster a collaborative, fair, and healthy research culture that enables researchers and research communities to do their best work? That's the question at the heart of the new 2026–2028 strategy for our Culture & Evaluation focal area, as explained in our latest blog post.
👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/strengthening-research-cultures
At CWTS, we see scholarly publishing as a collective responsibility. In the blog post on our Scholarly Communication Policy, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner. @parrhesiastic@akademienl.social & @LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl reflect on this perspective, share our process for developing this policy, and aim to encourage other institutions to implement a similar approach.
📣 Read it here: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/scholarly-communication-as-a-collective-responsibility
This new blog post by @EleonoraDagiene@social.cwts.nl & Eduard Aibar focuses on how infrastructures shape the uncertainty in publication and recognition via comparing Spain and Lithuania.
Read it here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/who-absorbs-uncertainty-publishing-infrastructures-and-the-organisation-of-research-culture
AI is rapidly reshaping scientific practice, but universities still lack clear governance frameworks for its responsible use.
Our latest blog post by Laurens Hessels examines why universities must take an active role in regulating AI use in science and safeguarding research integrity, reliability, and independence.
👇 Read it now on https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/universities-must-act-now-to-regulate-ai-use-in-science
🎓 Over the past few years, 'research culture' has become a key concept and an object of research governance, but what it means exactly often remains unclear.
🔎 In our new blog post, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner proposes a way for giving the concept greater analytical substance and proposes to consider research culture as a politics of uncertainty.
https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/research-culture-as-a-politics-of-uncertainty
🌐 In our new blog post, Juan Pablo Bascur introduces the ORION Dashboard: a tool that makes #openresearchdata accessible, interactive, and easy to explore. It enables easy exploration of CWTS #OpenAlex data on #BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL queries, without any coding skills required 👩💻.
🔎 Discover the blog post here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/orion-dashboard-bringing-open-research-data-within-reach
In today's new blog post, Louise Bezuidenhout proposes the development of an #OpenScience Readiness Assessment Framework tool in line with the Dutch Strategy Evaluation Protocol to support research units in the long-term implementation of OS.
👇 Read it now https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/developing-an-open-science-readiness-assessment-framework-for-the-sep
Metric-driven research systems tend to persist because governance structures often matter more than metrics themselves.
Our latest blog post by @EleonoraDagiene@social.cwts.nl, @LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl, Guus Dix & @lariviev@mastodon.social tackles this issue through the Lithuanian case 🇱🇹
👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/insular-policy-feedback-why-reforming-metrics-alone-may-not-be-enough
The 2026–2028 strategic plan for the Engagement & Inclusion focal area at @cwts@social.cwts.nl is published! Read the blogpost for an overview of their vision and strategic directions to foster inclusive knowledge systems that engage with societal needs and challenges.
Read the blogpost here👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/focal-area-ei-post
📢 AI tools are rapidly becoming part of academia; therefore, transparency is urgently needed. In this new blog post, @serhii@mstdn.science, Natalia Tsybuliak, Jaime A. Texeira da Silva & @yanasuchikova@mstdn.science introduce GAIDeT - a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing.
Read the blog post here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gaidet-a-practical-taxonomy-for-declaring-ai-use-in-research-and-publishing
Scientific collaboration across disciplines resembles a mosaic, with each piece contributing to a composition more coherent than its fragments. This diversity is widely seen as necessary for tackling complex problems, but does it also translate into scientific prestige? In our new blog post, Julian D. Cortés explores this question.
Read the blog post here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-mosaic-of-science-when-does-diversity-translate-into-prestige
🆕 In our new blog post, Joonha Jeon and Tanya Lee reflect on the CWTS research seminar with Samuel Moore earlier this year on 'Publishing beyond the market'. While Moore proposed alternatives to Open Access publishing with a new 'commons' approach, our authors expand his view to broader research infrastructure and culture.
📚 Read the blog post here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/reclaiming-the-scholarly-ecosystem-reflections-on-the-first-cwts-research-seminar-in-2026
The 2026–2028 strategic plan for the Information & Openness focal area at @cwts@social.cwts.nl is published! Read the blogpost for an overview of its vision and goals to advance the adoption of open research information in the coming years, coordinated by @kathleengregory@mastodon.social, Mark Neijssel, and @neesjanvaneck@social.cwts.nl 👏
👇 Read it now
📚 Crossref is a crucial source of open bibliographic metadata for articles published in scientific journals. However, it can also serve as a source of bibliographic metadata for preprints. In our new blog post, @neesjanvaneck@social.cwts.nl and @LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl analyze the completeness of Crossref’s preprint metadata.
In today's new blog post, Lokman Meho introduces RI²: a diagnostic overlay to support more cautious and governance-aware reading of university rankings.
👇 Read about it now on our blog https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/when-impact-signals-become-noisy-ri%C2%B2-as-an-early-warning-framework-for-university-rankings
🗺️ In our new blog post, Adrià Plazas, Nicandro Bovenzi, Nicolau Duran, Enric Fuster and @ismaelrafols@mstdn.social offer a new way of visualising the global research funding landscape by mapping 82,000 EU research and innovation grants using semantic analysis rather than traditional publication citations. Their analysis sheds light on how regions, organisations, and disciplines are positioned across the scientific landscape shaped by EU funding.
🔎 Discover the blog post here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-global-map-of-science-according-to-eu-funding
📄 Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. In our new blog post, guest author Sagartirtha Chakraborty shows how this strategic trap can be compared to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains how this situation is exacerbated by predatory journals, and outlines possible solutions.
Read the blog post here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/academic-publishing-stuck-in-a-prisoners-dilemma
📌 What are the key priority themes for the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network in 2026?
As this growing network advances open, community‑governed research information, its priorities continue to evolve. In this 🆕 blog post, Ana Ranitovic outlines the network’s shared priorities, including aligning CRIS systems with open principles and advocating for open data in rankings and funding.
Read more here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/looking-ahead-to-2026-key-priorities-of-the-netherlands-barcelona-declaration-network
📄 Generative AI (genAI) has become ubiquitous in research. Disclosing its use in publications can create transparency, but is that enough to count as responsible use of genAI? In response to an earlier blog post, our authors @AndreaRE_altibel@glammr.us and Peter Tarras argue that mere disclosure conceals fundamental ethical considerations around research integrity.
Read the full blog post 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why-ai-transparency-is-not-enough
⚖️ Who is best in place to regulate the use of research output for training generative AI systems?
In our new post, @dkochetkov@social.cwts.nl dives into that question — and shows why the rise of generative AI forces us to rethink copyright and the future of scholarly publishing.
Read more about it here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/copyright-genai-and-the-future-of-academic-publishing
🔓 Curious about #OpenScience practices at @cwts@social.cwts.nl?
🔍 Let's take a look at how some of our scholars embrace OS in their daily work in our newest blog by @anaparroncab@social.cwts.nl 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/walking-the-talk-a-peak-into-open-science-practices-at-cwts
🎓 In our newest blog post, Tanya Lee and @anaparroncab@social.cwts.nl explore how PhD trajectories at @universiteitleiden@mastodon.nl could better reflect the diverse activities, needs and expectations of PhD candidates and why this matters now.
Read more here. 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/beyond-the-dissertation-reshaping-phd-trajectories-at-leiden-university
Decentralisation is not enough: With many Twitter users moving to Mastodon, institutions should take responsibility and host their own Mastodon server, argue @vtraag@social.cwts.nl, @jo_dudek@social.cwts.nl, @EleonoraDagiene@social.cwts.nl, @neesjanvaneck@social.cwts.nl & @rodrigocostas@social.cwts.nl https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/take-responsibility-for-social-media
In our latest blog post, @Wences@mastodon.online and @rodrigocostas@social.cwts.nl discuss the study of science on Wikipedia and its use in scientometric research @cwts@social.cwts.nl https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/five-key-facts-to-consider-when-studying-science-on-wikipedia
The @BarcelonaDORI@mastodon.social highlights that research information systems should not only be open but also diverse and inclusive. In our new blog post, the authors argue that this can only be achieved by interlinking various and decentralised research information sources. #OpenScience
With: Dominque Babini & Laura Rovelli from CLACSO, Arianna Becerril from Redalyc, Lautaro Matas from LA Referencia, and @rodrigocostas@social.cwts.nl & @ismaelrafols@mstdn.social from @cwts@social.cwts.nl
🆕The Evaluation & Culture focal area at CWTS focuses on the changing faces of research quality, scholarly communication, and research assessment. Want to know more about its agenda for the coming five years? Here is our new blog post 👇https://leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/transforming-research-culture-introducing-the-evaluation-culture-focal-area-at-cwts
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To accelerate the sharing of scientific knowledge, researchers increasingly publish their work on preprint servers. In our latest blog post, @LudoWaltman@social.cwts.nl, Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield@mstdn.social discuss the state of preprinting in Europe and the Netherlands.
👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics
https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-state-of-preprinting-in-europe-and-the-netherlands
🚨 Science in the US faces major challenges, including attacks on diversity, equity & inclusion, and climate science. In our new blog post, CWTS’ focal areas respond and outline continuous efforts to improve how science is practiced, governed, and valued.
👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/strengthening-science-through-diversity
As organizer of the STI 2023 conference, CWTS introduces two open science experiments. Read our latest blog post to learn more about it: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/experimenting-with-open-science-practices-at-the-sti-2023-conference @cwts@social.cwts.nl #STI2023 #openscience
Last blog post of the year! 🙂
In September 2023, not just one but two scientometrics-related events took place in Leiden: the @cwts@social.cwts.nl Scientometrics Summer School and the @sti2023@social.cwts.nl conference. Our author Carlos Manuel Vilchez Román attended both events and reflects on his experience.
Preprinting and open peer review at the @sti2023@social.cwts.nl conference: what can we learn from this #OpenScience experiment?
The conference organisers conducted a survey among authors and present the results and further reflections in this new blog post.
In our newest blog post, @alyssonmazoni@social.cwts.nl and @rodrigocostas@social.cwts.nl discuss the importance of not only opening up information, but also democratising the access and use of it. They walk us through the steps they took in the InSySPo project to facilitate this https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/towards-the-democratisation-of-open-research-information-for-scientometrics-and-science-policy-the-campinas-experience
In 2022, @cwts@social.cwts.nl organised a series of open science seminars together with the research council of the Netherlands (NWO) and of Norway (RCN). This led to the creation of the Open Science Knowledge Platform. @andrebrasil@social.cwts.nl reflects on building this platform and next steps to come.
Back in 2022, the Scholars on Twitter dataset was launched. In this new blog post, @philippemongeon@bird.makeup, Timothy D. Bowman, @rodrigocostas@social.cwts.nl and
@Wences@mastodon.online update us on how they dealt with various challenges coming from the data providers in the meantime https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/an-update-on-the-scholars-on-twitter-dataset
According to Beigel et al (2025), commercial academic publishing oligopolies are draining science. They call for community control but, as @EleonoraDagiene@social.cwts.nl writes, the Lithuanian case shows this to be hard after dismantling domestic journal publishing infrastructure.
👇 Read our latest blog post now on Leiden Madtrics https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-drain-of-science-a-call-for-action-and-the-bridges-we-burned
🌎 What does the withdrawal of the US from UNESCO mean for Open Science and Open Science infrastructure? While much is still unclear, Louise Bezuidenhout and Jon Verriet argue that the implications could be profound.
Read more in our new blog post 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-withdrawal-of-the-us-from-unesco-what-does-this-mean-for-open-science
📊 Today, the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 has been released. The new Open Edition marks a next step towards more open and more inclusive research analytics for universities. Our new blog post highlights the most significant developments.
👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-cwts-leiden-ranking-2025-more-open-more-inclusive-more-informative
✍️ How global is research assessment reform? In a new blog post, Nina Gogadze introduces a practical, interactive dashboard that brings @CoARAssessment@mastodon.social signatories into clearer view: showing where they are located, how they are distributed across organisation types, and how engagement with action plans is evolving.
Read more in our new blog post 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/launch-of-a-new-tool-to-track-coara-signatories
🤝 Amid international concerns over the China Scholarship Council, our latest blog's authors @Qianqian@social.cwts.nl & Alfredo Yegros look at the data. They reveal trends, collaborations and broader implications, and ultimately argue for a "balanced, evidence-based approach".
👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/balancing-opportunity-and-risk-rethinking-china-scholarship-council-programmes-amid-geopolitical-tensions
Caroline S. Wagner was a highly regarded scholar in the field of science and technology policy. In his obituary, Paul Wouters reflects on her impressive contributions to research on science policy, the globalization of research, international collaboration, and scientometrics.
https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/in-memoriam-caroline-s-wagner
Citation counts have a prominent role in bibliometrics, but do they really represent all citations of a document? In our 🆕 blog post, Paul Donner shows the different ways in which they can vary and proposes a more nuanced way of presenting them: 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬. By making the underlying uncertainty explicit, citation count ranges can support a more responsible use of citation data.
Read it here 👉 https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-case-of-citation-count-ranges