At @universiteitleiden we have updated the website of our #AcademiaInMotion program, in which we are working on promoting open science practices and introducing new approaches for recognizing and rewarding our staff. See https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/dossiers/academia-in-motion.
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Connecting the Dots: The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information – Openness of research information as a prerequisite for research assessment reform https://graspos.eu/connecting-the-dots-barcelona-dori-open-information
@BarcelonaDORI @CoARAssessment @graspos @MsPhelps @vergoulis @jannepolonen
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Robbert Dijkgraaf, renowned mathematical physicist, named President-Elect of the #InternationalScienceCouncil https://council.science/news/robbert-dijkgraaf-president-elect-international-science-council/
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Academia in Motion: how we’ll build our open knowledge community in 2025 https://www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/01/academia-in-motion-how-well-build-our-open-knowledge-community-in-2025
Very proud of the work @universiteitleiden is doing to adopt new approaches for recognizing and rewarding staff members and advancing open science!
"Over past year we have worked with university working group on open publishing vision ... In 2025 we ... want to encourage faculties and institutes to look at how this vision can be converted into concrete and discipline-specific publication policy"
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Very much looking forward to the #Metascience2025 conference this summer in London, organized by @RoRInstitute and @CenterforOpenScience https://metascience.info/.
This is going to be a crucial event in the development of the metaresearch field, with exciting opportunities to bring together researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders.
Deadline for submitting for proposals for panels, talks and posters is February 7.
@cwts
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Looking forward to Philip Purnell's defense of his PhD thesis 'Bibliometrics in the Context of Research Evaluation and Research Policy' https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/01/bibliometrics-in-the-context-of-research-evaluation-and-research-policy. Together with Ton van Raan I had the pleasure of supervising Philip's work.
The PhD defense will take place on Tuesday at 11.30h in the Academy Building of @universiteitleiden. It can also be followed through a live stream.
@cwts
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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, a journal owned by the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics #ISSI and published by #MITPress.
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Very excited about the partnership between #STI-ENID2025 and
[#]MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review), the open peer review platform set up by @aimos and @RoRInstitute! https://www.stienid2025.org/about-6
Looking forward to working together with @gemmaderrick and Neil Jacobs at University of Bristol.
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I very much enjoyed working together on this piece with colleagues associated with several reform initiatives: @DORAssessment, @CoARAssessment, #HELIOSOpen, @cOAlitionS_OA, @ASAPbio, @BarcelonaDORI, and others. Hope there will be more of these collaborations in the future!
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We urge stakeholders in the research system to work with innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. Examples of databases that are more supportive of innovation include #Dimensions, @OpenAlex and #EuropePMC, among others.
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Earlier this week an opinion piece authored by me and a number of great colleagues was published on the @upstream 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 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.
@cwts
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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"
@vtraag @QSS_ISSI
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Leiden University will recognize and reward open science more https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/12/leiden-university-will-recognize-and-reward-open-science-practices-more
Very happy with dual role of @cwts in this development:
"The methodology will initially be piloted at CWTS and several sections of Institute of Psychology within Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences."
"CWTS received funding for national coordination of these projects. This coordination will enable exchange of best practices and alignment across institutions."
@universiteitleiden @OpenScienceNL
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Georgia’s political shifts threaten academic freedom and EU research cooperation https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/12/20/georgias-political-shifts-threaten-academic-freedom-and-eu-research-cooperation/
Important reflections by our @cwts PhD candidate Nino Gogadze on the troubling consequences of the political developments in her home country for the country's research system.
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Good news at #CNRS Open Science Day:
"CNRS's cancellation of #Scopus subscription will help support its full transition to open, non-commercial model, a point reiterated by Antoine Petit ... 'We will eventually need to stop using commercial databases for bibliometrics and bibliography'. In the meantime CNRS has maintained subscription to Clarivate's #WebOfScience database while free bibliographic databases are being developed like open access not-for-profit solution @OpenAlex."
@BarcelonaDORI
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We have a new employee of the year at @cwts. Congrats to Carole de Bordes for this well-deserved award!
Among many other things, Carole is managing the course program of CWTS and is one of the key people in our communication team.
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The decision by #WebOfScience "therefore rewards journals for continuing the unhelpful practice of keeping peer review information hidden and unintentionally presenting incomplete and inadequate studies as sound science and punishes those journals that are more transparent."
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"Web of Science de-listed eLife because the new publishing model can result in the publication of studies with 'inadequate' or 'incomplete' evidence ...
other journals, which use the traditional and confidential peer review model, remain indexed in the Web of Science even though some of the articles they publish also have inadequate or incomplete evidence. The difference is that they do not label these articles as such."
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Bodo Stern at #HHMI is spot on in his assessment of the decision by #WebOfScience to stop indexing @eLife articles: "Rather than helping move scholarly communication forward, Web of Science, by punishing a leader in the field, is in fact holding it back."
https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/how-the-web-of-science-takes-a-step-back/
@cOAlitionS_OA
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Mooi om te zien hoe het #LUMC het werk van Paul Gobée op het gebied van open leermaterialen in het zonnetje zet! https://www.lumc.nl/actueel/2024/iedereen-moet-met-zo-min-mogelijk-barrieres-kennis-kunnen-verkrijgen/
"Voor onderwijsinstellingen kan het gebruik van open leermaterialen helpen de regie te houden over hun onderwijs. Met toenemend digitaal onderwijs voelen ze de hete adem van grote commerciële platforms die onderwijsmateriaal aanbieden, maar daarmee ook de inhoud bepalen én data van studenten verzamelen."
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