Transforming Research Culture - Introducing the Evaluation & Culture Focal Area at CWTS

The Evaluation & Culture Focal Area at CWTS focuses on the changing faces of research quality, scholarly communication, and research assessment. In this blog post, we present our agenda for the coming five years.

• April 02, 2024

The changing tunes of science policy: mapping research priorities of consecutive governments

When governments change, science policy can be affected as well. This blog post discusses a method to track these shifts using the example of Colombia. Results show that over time, the number and connectedness of research fields in science policy increases, but only a few survive all governments.

Julián D. Cortés and Catalina Ramírez • March 28, 2024

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

Concurrent Evidence: a framework for using evidence from multiple disciplines

In policy and legal systems, focusing too narrowly on one scientific discipline can lead to questionable conclusions. In this post, Tsuyoshi Hondou and Ismael Rafols introduce ‘Concurrent evidence’, a framework that considers evidence from multiple disciplines to reach more robust decisions.

Tsuyoshi Hondou and Ismael Rafols • March 07, 2024

Citizen Science in the CWTS Knowledge Agenda

Participatory practices such as Citizen Science are key to achieving the open engagement of societal actors in research, one of the core pillars of Open Science. In this blog post, the coordinator of the Citizen Science Lab introduces the vision for Citizen Science in the CWTS Knowledge Agenda.

Margaret Gold • March 05, 2024

The UNESCO Open Science Outlook: OS progresses, but unequally

Last December, UNESCO published the first global report on the trends of Open Science (OS). In this blog post, the main findings are highlighted: OS is increasing but does so unevenly and its monitoring is mainly focused on outputs, missing potential progress in participation and dialogue.

Ismael Rafols • February 01, 2024

Introducing the Leiden Ranking Open Edition

This post introduces the Open Edition of the CWTS Leiden Ranking, published today by CWTS in collaboration with the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, Sesame Open Science, and OurResearch. The Leiden Ranking Open Edition is the first fully transparent university ranking.

Ludo Waltman, Nees Jan van Eck, Martijn Visser, Mark Neijssel, Lucy Montgomery, Cameron Neylon, Bianca Kramer, Kyle Demes and Jason Priem • January 30, 2024

Opening up the CWTS Leiden Ranking: Toward a decentralized and open model for data curation

Today, CWTS released the Open Edition of the Leiden Ranking. This blog post discusses the data curation approach taken in this fully transparent edition of the Leiden Ranking.

Nees Jan van Eck, Martijn Visser and Ludo Waltman • January 30, 2024

An open approach for classifying research publications

In this post Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman introduce an open approach for classifying research publications, contributing to a broader development toward open approaches to bibliometrics.

Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman • January 24, 2024