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The growth of open peer review

The growth of open peer review

The closed nature of the traditional journal peer review system is often criticized. Over the past two decades, significant efforts have been made to make peer review more open. Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck use data from Crossref to analyze the growth of open peer review.

Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck • July 06, 2022

Bibliometrics in press or the representation of indicators in the Italian news

Bibliometrics in press or the representation of indicators in the Italian news

The use of bibliometric indicators such as the h-index or the journal impact factor is not limited to academia: from time to time, they make it into the news as well. Our author studied Italian news articles and found that they are used in quite different contexts and cover a variety of functions.

Eugenio Petrovich • April 13, 2022

Do research priorities for mental health actually reflect the goal of fostering well-being?

Do research priorities for mental health actually reflect the goal of fostering well-being?

Do mental health research priorities reflect societal needs? This post explores the landscape of mental health research and introduces an interactive visualization that allows to explore research portfolios of specific countries, funders and organisations.

Wouter van de Klippe, Alfredo Yegros, Tim Willemse and Ismael Ràfols • March 30, 2022

Seven Guiding Principles for Open Research Information

Seven Guiding Principles for Open Research Information

What should research organisations consider when creating and acquiring services to manage research information?

Magchiel Bijsterbosch, Alastair Dunning, Darco Jansen, Max Haring, Sarah de Rijcke and Maurice Vanderfeesten • March 16, 2022

Responsible metrics for societal  value of scientific research

Responsible metrics for societal value of scientific research

What does responsible research evaluation look like when it comes to societal value? This blog post provides four practical recommendations.

Laurens Hessels, Leonie van Drooge, Tjitske Holtrop and Rodrigo Costas • March 10, 2022

Building knowledge infrastructure to support research assessment reforms: Dispatches from the Dutch Recognition and Rewards Festival 2022

Building knowledge infrastructure to support research assessment reforms: Dispatches from the Dutch Recognition and Rewards Festival 2022

In this blog post we reflect on knowledge infrastructures currently emerging to support organizations that are pursuing research assessment reforms, and call on sociologists of science and research evaluation researchers to study and contribute to these unfolding developments.

Alex Rushforth, Marta Sienkiewicz and Sarah de Rijcke • February 23, 2022

A first step in quantifying disagreement across science

A first step in quantifying disagreement across science

Disagreement is ubiquitous in science and maybe even necessary for progress. We leverage recent advances in data to develop a method for quantifying disagreement, revealing the complexity of disagreement across science.

Wout Lamers, Kevin Boyack, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman and Dakota Murray • January 19, 2022

Priority-2030: the New Excellence Initiative from Russia

Priority-2030: the New Excellence Initiative from Russia

Dmitry Kochetkov is PhD candidate at CWTS. In this post, he gives an update on Priority-2030, a new excellence initiative in the Russian higher education sector. He also makes some reflections on the role of this experience in the global context of higher education reform.

Dmitry Kochetkov • January 17, 2022

Expanding the visualization toolbox: Lessons from a Tableau training

Expanding the visualization toolbox: Lessons from a Tableau training

Visualizing results is a crucial part of our work at CWTS and essential for interacting with our audience. Consolidating and enriching our knowledge of the Tableau software in a two-day advanced course was one step in that direction. Here, we share some of the experiences and lessons learned.

Jonathan Dudek and Carole de Bordes • January 12, 2022

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