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Five key facts to consider when studying science on Wikipedia Five key facts to consider when studying science on Wikipedia

Five key facts to consider when studying science on Wikipedia

Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado and Rodrigo Costas • January 10, 2023

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Blog team • December 20, 2022

Take responsibility for social media

Take responsibility for social media

With many former Twitter users looking for alternatives, the decentralised Mastodon platform is on the rise. But decentralisation alone is not enough: institutions should take responsibility and host their own Mastodon server.

Vincent Traag, Jonathan Dudek, Eleonora Dagiene, Nees Jan van Eck and Rodrigo Costas • December 07, 2022 • 4 comments

Acknowledging the Difficulties: A Case Study of a Funding Text

Acknowledging the Difficulties: A Case Study of a Funding Text

Research on funding acknowledgments is in ascendance, with more data available and more studies done. Yet, there are specific challenges in accurately capturing this type of data. This blog post looks at a single publication's acknowledgment section in order to discuss several of these challenges.

Dan Gibson, Jeroen van Honk and Clara Calero-Medina • December 01, 2022

We need to talk about our partnership: lessons from the EVALUATE project

We need to talk about our partnership: lessons from the EVALUATE project

How to evaluate strategic partnerships? International officers of six universities asked this simple yet challenging question. CWTS and STIS participated and decided to co-create with the international officers. The result is an evaluation framework that looks unlike anything they had imagined.

Leonie van Drooge, Carole de Bordes, Niki Vermeulen and Mayline Strouk • November 29, 2022

Why are diversity and inclusion important for Global Science?

Why are diversity and inclusion important for Global Science?

CWTS is starting a new UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science. In this blog post we outline why this topic matters and how our team aims to contribute to UNESCO's agenda of making science a positive force for development.

Ismael Ràfols, Ingeborg Meijer and Rodrigo Costas • November 10, 2022 • 1 comment

Reflections on guest editing a Frontiers journal

Reflections on guest editing a Frontiers journal

In this blogpost, the authors critically discuss their experience as guest editors for a Frontiers journal. They aim to foster open scholarly debate about Frontiers publishing practices, triggered by Frontiers hindering such debate on their own pages.

Serge Horbach, Michael Ochsner and Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner • October 31, 2022 • 4 comments

Q&A about Wiley's decision to open its abstracts

Q&A about Wiley's decision to open its abstracts

In this post Ludo Waltman and Bianca Kramer reflect on today’s announcement that Wiley is joining the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) and is going to make abstracts openly available through Crossref.

Ludo Waltman and Bianca Kramer • October 25, 2022

A monitoring and evaluation framework for responsibility in R&I

A monitoring and evaluation framework for responsibility in R&I

In this blogpost (and the next), the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation framework for Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the EU is told through our learnings in the H2020-funded project SUPER MoRRI over time.

Ingeborg Meijer • October 20, 2022 • 1 comment

Dreaming at CWTS

Dreaming at CWTS

What happens when you bring together the CWTS team and let them dream into the blue? Five visionary project ideas! From a New Society-Science Collaboration to the Participatory Activists Network or the enigmatic GRRASS: nothing was unthinkable.

Ed Noyons and Ludo Waltman • October 18, 2022

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