The drain of science: a call for action and the bridges we burned

Commercial academic publishing oligopolies are draining science. Beigel et al. (2025) call for community control, but the Lithuanian case shows this is difficult after dismantling domestic journal publishing infrastructure. We must restore trust in it first to regain sovereignty.

Eleonora Dagiene • December 11, 2025

Global reach, local insights: Using book ISBNs to map publishing behaviour

Hidden data hinders book evaluation. Analysing ISBNs in the Global Register of Publishers gains a powerful tool for bibliometrics, policy development, and nuanced book metrics.

Eleonora Dagiene • March 21, 2024

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

Visualising quantitative data with VOSviewer will widen your research projects

VOSviewer is a well-known and widely used software tool visualising quantitative data. Learning to use all VOSviewer’s features through guided instruction was an exceptional and new experience for us. In this post, we share some of our recent experiences in mastering our science mapping skills.

Eleonora Dagiene and Qianqian Xie • March 08, 2021

Do not assess books by their publishers

In my PhD research, I investigate the practicalities of the evaluation of scholarly book outputs across countries. In this blog post, I discuss the inconsistencies I discovered in judgements about publishers. I also propose a model for future evaluation of scholarly books.

Eleonora Dagiene • November 18, 2020

The bright side of the lockdown: the experience of conducting PhD studies remotely

Beyond the lockdown: COVID-19 forces change in remote learning

Eleonora Dagiene • May 11, 2020

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