chercher un ou une scientifique et écouter sa production académique. Vous pouvez même télécharger la piste pour la passer dans vos meilleurs DJ set ! #bibliométronomie

Lutz Bornmann@lutzb.bsky.social · 4w ago

We have released SoniMet (sonimet.kennebec.co.uk), which allows publication data from individual scientists to be visualized and sonified. If you'd like to download your scientific performance as a piece of music, give it a try. You can find our paper about the tool here: arxiv.org/abs/2608.30274

Is science losing its disruptive edge, or is the metric flawed? @scurry.bsky.social and @ludowaltman.bsky.social look at the debate over measuring scientific disruption and make the case for fully open metadata and modern peer engagement: researchonresearchinstitute.substack.com/p/disruption...

Disruption eruption

Dispute about the validity of a metric for scientific innovation highlights the need for open research approaches in metascience

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MIDI files from SoniMet can be further processed with DAWs such as Ableton Live. Here you can find, for example, the sonified performances of Nobel laureates: karhide.bandcamp.com/album/the-so...

The Sound of Nobel Laureate Research, by Karhide

14 track album

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We have released SoniMet (sonimet.kennebec.co.uk), which allows publication data from individual scientists to be visualized and sonified. If you'd like to download your scientific performance as a piece of music, give it a try. You can find our paper about the tool here: arxiv.org/abs/2608.30274

SoniMet - Interactive Sonification & Academic Analytics

Explore and listen to academic careers. Translate scholar data from OpenAlex into beautiful interactive vertical timelines and custom audio chimes.

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An interesting paper by @lutzb.bsky.social and António Osório on incentives, competition, and undesirable practices in science. Metrics or no metrics? 🙅‍♂️A better question is: what kind of behaviour does an evaluation system make rational? doi.org/10.1038/s443... #ResearchAssessment #Scientometrics

What does scientific progress sound like? Tim Waterfield and @lutzb.bsky.social create a novel approach to visual data representation: sonification using CDI data to explore how listening to the data can provide a more nuanced picture @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

What does scientific progress sound like? - LSE Impact

Is science becoming less innovative and disruptive? Listening to the data could provide more nuanced answers.

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As submissions to scientific journals continue to climb, it’s becoming more time-consuming to find ones that may offer truly novel ideas. This U.K. competition is paying the winner £300,000 for suggesting how AI could help. #peerreview #scicomm @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

How novel is that research paper? Competition to quantify concept crowns winner

The automated tool could be used to help journals vet submissions

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This was a joyful collaboration with @rhaunschild.bsky.social and @lutzb.bsky.social

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

👓Recommended Reading📚 How Mobile are Highly Talented Academics Compared to Other Scientists? Aliakbar Akbaritabar et al. examined whether regional & gender-specific differences exist in the academic mobility of highly talented scientists compared to other scientists. www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RRead

Our latest article argues that citation noise "represents an [...] underexplored challenge in citation analysis". Reviewers appreciate the fresh/innovative approach but question its conceptual underpinning: can citation accuracy be determined objectively? 👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full text

Citation accuracy, citation noise, and citation bias: A foundation of citation analysis - MetaROR

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Very glad to see this collaborative work w/ Robin Haunschild and @lutzb.bsky.social published in Journal of Informetrics "A study of gender and regional differences in scientific mobility and immobility among researchers identified as potentially talented" Open Access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...

The recent debate in JoI highlights a key issue often ignored in evaluation: doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... When all publication types are counted, normalized #metrics become inconsistent and misleading. But once we restrict the analysis to articles and reviews, correlations rise sharply. #bibliometrics

Is research performance related to academic freedom? A preprint co-authored with @lutzb.bsky.social conducts a large-scale empirical analysis on the national level to this question. osf.io/2mh8f #academicfreedom #AcademicFreedomIndex Short 🧵

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Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research - The Scholarly Kitchen

Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on inn...

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How similar are field-normalized citation impact scores obtained from OpenAlex and three popular commercial databases? An empirical comparison based on large German universities. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How similar are field-normalized citation impact scores obtained from OpenAlex and three popular commercial databases? An empirical comparison based on large German universities - Scientometrics

OpenAlex is a freely available bibliographic database that can be used for bibliometric studies. In this study, we compared certain field-normalized citation scores (NCS) from OpenAlex with those from...

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Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find?

Researchers are arguing over whether ‘disruptive’ or ‘novel’ science is waning – and how to remedy the problem.

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Prof Gunnar Sivertsen (NIFU, Norway) has been awarded the Derek de Solla Price Medal 2025 of the international journal Scientometrics. The awarding ceremony will take place during the 20th ISSI Conference in Yerevan (Armenia) to be held on 23–27 June 2025. www.issi-society.org/awards/derek...

Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal | International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

The International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI) is an international association of scholars and professionals active in the interdisciplinary study science of science, science com...

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Metrics sonification: The introduction of new ways to present bibliometric data using publication data of Loet Leydesdorff as an example. https://rdcu.be/eiqC4

The MPIWG’s Research Report 2021–2024 is now available online and in print! 📗 The report provides insights into the Institute’s structure and research, including our researchers and staff, projects, and publications. 🔗 bitly.cx/l3ovd #HistSci #HistMed #EnvHist #STS #Sinology #DigitalHumanities

I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org: “Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows” Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025

index (D). While prior studies emphasize minimum citation windows (mostly 3-5 years) for reliable citation impact measurements, the time-sensitive nature of D - which quantifies a paper' s capacity to eclipse prior knowledge - remains underexplored. [2/6 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07828v1]

highly disruptive and consolidating works. The findings offer significant implications for scholarly evaluation and science policy, emphasizing the need for careful consideration of citation window length in research assessment (based on D). [6/6 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07828v1]

classifications, while shorter windows (3 years) exhibit instability. Publications with >=30 references stabilize 1-3 years faster, and extreme cases (top/bottom 5% D values) become identifiable within 5 years - enabling early detection of 60-80% of [5/6 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07828v1]

Hongkan Chen, Lutz Bornmann, Yi Bu: Dynamic disruption index across citation and cited references windows: Recommendations for thresholds in research evaluation https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07828 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07828 https://arxiv.org/html/2504.07828

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Are quality assessments in science affected by anchoring effects? – Empirical results from a survey of authors assessing previously cited papers

Many studies have investigated anchoring effects. Anchoring occurs when initial values are used by humans as starting points in assessments. We investigated the prevalence of anchoring effects in the ...

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'The influence of public policy and administration expertise on #policy: an empirical study' New from Evidence & Policy, by @rhaunschild.bsky.social, Kate Williams & @lutzb.bsky.social:

The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study

Academic expertise is a key pillar of governance processes around the world. A goal of policy and public sector actors is to draw on research to improve decision making, and correspondingly, a goal…

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👀 ICYMI: @lutzb.bsky.social & Christian Ganser explore the phenomenon of hyperprolific authors, who publish a research paper every five days, and what listening to their output metrics can tell us about ‘research productivity’. #Citations #Bibliometrics #Academia

Metrics sonification – What we can learn from listening to the output of hyperprolific academic authors - Impact of Social Sciences

Bibliometric data is often communicated visually or as text, but what can we learn by listening to them via the process of metrics sonification?

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The attacks on science in the US raise serious concerns. With other colleagues at CWTS, we discuss how our research relates to these developments, and how we intend to monitor science at risk.

Leiden Madtrics@leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Science in the US faces major challenges, including attacks on diversity, equity & inclusion, and climate science. In our new blog post, CWTS’ focal areas respond and outline continuous efforts to improve how science is practiced, governed, and valued. 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/str...

Our upcoming Open Research Seminars in May, June and July on the German Excellence Initiative, measuring disruption in science and evaluative bibliometrics in the DORA/CoARA context:

Registration is open for the esss european summer school for scientometrics! esss.info

U^CHASS@uchass.ugr.es · 2y ago

🗞️Hello there! The European Summer School for Scientometrics (ESSS) will be back for the 2025 edition! Read all about it here ➡️ uchass.ugr.es/chronicles/e... PD: Members of Universidad de Granada and students are eligible for a discount. Registration opens on April 1st, don't miss it! 👀