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Pre-COVID-19 workshop on virtual meetings and conferences

Pre-COVID-19 workshop on virtual meetings and conferences

While attending a workshop on virtual meetings in academia, our author Carole de Bordes would not have expected how relevant this topic would soon be. This blog post gives insights into some solutions for more sustainable conferencing and collaboration from today’s perspective.

Carole de Bordes • April 07, 2020

Scholarly Knowledge Graphs: A Call for Participation

Scholarly Knowledge Graphs: A Call for Participation

The scholarly community has worked hard to make its publications machine-findable, but not the knowledge within these publications. This is changing thanks to projects such as the Open Research Knowledge Graph, and you can participate!

Markus Stocker • March 23, 2020

Launch of Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies

Launch of Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies

We are happy to announce that, as of today, the Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies (PREP) is available via www.responsiblejournals.org.

Wytske Hepkema, Serge Horbach and Willem Halffman • March 17, 2020

PIDapalooza 2020, Lisbon

PIDapalooza 2020, Lisbon

At the end of January, I went to the PIDapalooza festival: the open festival of persistent identifiers. You can read everything about my experience in this post.

Zeynep Anli • March 13, 2020

Sorbonne declaration on research data rights

Sorbonne declaration on research data rights

Earlier this year, representatives of nine university networks met at the Sorbonne to issue a declaration for the promotion of Open Data. But what, exactly, is Open Data, and how does it relate to the larger Open Science discussion?

André Brasil • March 12, 2020

Gender inequalities in science: Evidence and ideas from bibliometrics

Gender inequalities in science: Evidence and ideas from bibliometrics

Leiden University hosted the Gender Inequalities in Science workshop in October 2019 - organized by CWTS and Elsevier’s International Center for the Study of Research - where researchers from around the world discussed the gender gap in science and possible ways to counter this problem.

Lidia Carballo-Costa and Zeynep Anli • February 13, 2020

The quackathon: quantitative and qualitative hacking

The quackathon: quantitative and qualitative hacking

Last September we organised the first research retreat at CWTS. Away from our normal workplace and usual thinking patterns we spent two days full of pitches, workshops, presentations, and fun of course. One special element of the research retreat was the so-called "quackathon".

Vincent Traag and Guus Dix • February 03, 2020

Juan reads a paper part 2: The experience

Juan reads a paper part 2: The experience

Quantitative and qualitative scientists write, work and think differently. This division creates an intellectual rift between scientists, but we still need each other! I am a quantitative scientist, will I be able to read a qualitative paper?

Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes • January 16, 2020

Juan reads a paper part 1: The blame

Juan reads a paper part 1: The blame

University rankings are frequently misused by the public, but is it their fault or the fault of the ranking creators? Join me as I discover a paper that could answer this question.

Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes • January 06, 2020

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