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

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

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

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

Cocreating science that society needs: introducing the EXPLORE approach

How can local knowledge production help regions to create more sustainable and inclusive societies? This post will delve deeper in how we combined the core concepts of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and smart specialisation and how this developed into the EXPLORE methodology.

Ingeborg Meijer, Tim Willemse, Sonia Mena Jara, Anestis Amanatidis, Tjitske Holtrop and Gaston Heimeriks • October 05, 2022

University technology transfer: 'it's not a business, but run it like a business‘

Technology transfer from universities can be intricate. The roles – and perceptions – of researchers, universities, and companies alike need to be considered on the way from ideas and inventions to innovation and investments. But in the end, it may just be a question of “Einstein or Columbus?”

Ivo de Nooijer • September 28, 2022

CHERRIES and RIPEET: CWTS traveling the Science - Society interface

This blogpost presents how CWTS got involved in two H2020-funded projects, CHERRIES and RIPEET, what they are about (territorial RRI), what we have learned from it, and what our contribution was (and still is) to developing interactions between science and society.

Ingeborg Meijer, Sonia Mena Jara, Anestis Amanatidis, Tim Willemse and Gaston Heimeriks • September 22, 2022

SciCon 2022: A look at Decentralized Science

In July 2022, the first SciCon took place with the aim of connecting the metascience community with the Decentralized Science movement (DeSci). This post briefly summarizes the experience and introduces DeSci to the reader.

Giovanni Colavizza • September 19, 2022

The disconnection between artificial intelligence engineering research and sustainable development

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to contribute to solving some of the most pressing societal issues of our time, but to what extent are engineers reflecting on the uses of their technologies for sustainable development, and who is producing the engineering knowledge behind AI?

Diego Chavarro, Jaime Andrés Pérez-Taborda and Alba Ávila • September 08, 2022