“[t]he infrastructure for large-scale scholarly record contamination is already in place. Ghost names additionally [...] are indexed without verification by Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar." #ai #scholarship #scipol #scicomm www.404media.co/the-ai-ghost...

The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing

“The academic record is being quietly haunted” by researchers with names like Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen.

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Our periodic review of the coverage of the bibliographic databases it is now focused on the lesser-known ones including a few (red ones) that are no longer available. Comments to: isidro.aguillo@csic.es

Principales repositorios de acceso abierto de interés para los investigadores iberoamericanos con indicación de su cobertura estimada (septiembre de 2026) Comentarios:isidro.aguillo@csic.es

ALGERIA in the Official Webometrics Ranking of Universities: 32 000 higher education institutions (23rd-year anniversary) Short edition can be downloaded from here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

SAUDI ARABIA in the Official Webometrics Ranking of Universities: 32 000 higher education institutions (23rd-year anniversary) Short edition can be downloaded from here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

NIGERIA in the Official Webometrics Ranking of Universities: 32 000 higher education institutions (23rd-year anniversary) Short edition can be downloaded from here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

SAUDI ARABIA in the Official Webometrics Ranking of Universities: 32 000 higher education institutions (23rd-year anniversary) Short edition can be downloaded from here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Our 50M OA include 37M for which you can full-text search matilda.science?l=en Easy Connection tu Zotero, RSS streamed alerts, citation tracking, no ID needed.

Isidro F. Aguillo@isidroaguillo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Monthly review of the coverage of the main bibliometric tools

Top perfiles con ORCID de investigadores en instituciones españolas según Openalex. -->

Universities excluded from the public Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) July 2026 official edition for promoting fake versions with fabricated ranks of our work

Monthly review of the coverage of the main bibliometric tools

Indonesian Universities excluded from the public Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) July 2026 official edition for promoting fake versions with fabricated ranks of our work

Algunos datos cuantitativos de la cobertura de herramientas de recuperación bibliográfica en acceso abierto, con especial atención a Iberoamérica

Para implantar CoARA son imprescindibles las infraestructuras de información científica, su correcto contenido y su interconexión: - Crea, corrige y actualiza tu ORCID - Revisa tu perfil en Openalex - Añade tu ORCID a tu perfil en Google Scholar

[Blogged] AI Search Is Rebundling Everything Libraries Know About Discovery aarontay.substack.com/p/eleven-way...

AI Search Is Rebundling Everything Libraries Know About Discovery

Ten established traditions, an emerging eleventh, and why libraries need to have a more holistic view of discovery

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Aaron Tay@aarontay.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fun project, writing a "textbook" of sorts to explain to librarians what I feel is needed to understand Information retrieval.. Starts from boolean, explains lexical is not just boolean, covers ranked lexical retrival - bm25/tf-idf, moves on to simple dense embedding, how it typically trained etc

Official Webometrics Ranking of Universities: 32 000 higher education institutions (23rd-year anniversary) Short edition can be downloaded from here: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

The official Ranking Web of Universities July 2026 will be published on the 23rd covering over 32 000 Higher Education Institutions for all over the World. This edition marks our 23-year long commitment to promote Open Science, especially in the Global South Check Figshare then

LATINOMÉRICA: Transparent Ranking of Universities by the number of Papers (2021-2025) in the Top 1% and the Top 10% most cited papers in the OpenAlex database. July 2026 edition doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

EUROPE:Transparent Ranking of Universities by the number of Papers (2021-2025) in the Top 1% and the Top 10% most cited papers in the OpenAlex database. July 2026 edition doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

ARAB WORLD: Transparent Ranking of Universities by the number of Papers (2021-2025) in the Top 1% and the Top 10% most cited papers in the OpenAlex database. July 2026 edition doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

AFRICA SOUTH SAHARA: Transparent Ranking of Universities by the number of Papers (2021-2025) in the Top 1% and the Top 10% most cited papers in the OpenAlex database. July 2026 edition doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

NETHERLANDS: Transparent Ranking of Universities by the number of Papers (2021-2025) in the Top 1% and the Top 10% most cited papers in the OpenAlex database. July 2026 edition doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

UKRAINE: Transparent Ranking of Universities by the number of Papers (2021-2025) in the Top 1% and the Top 10% most cited papers in the OpenAlex database. July 2026 edition. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

ECUADOR: Transparent Ranking of Universities by the number of Papers in the Top 1% and Top 10% most cited papers (2021-2025) in the OpenAlex database. July 2026 edition doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

TÜRKIYE: Transparent Ranking of Universities by the number of Papers in the Top 1% and Top 10% most cited papers (2021-2025) in the OpenAlex database. July 2026 edition doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

ESPAÑA: Transparent Ranking of Universities (2026) by the number of Papers in the Top 1% and Top 10% most cited papers (2021-2025) in the OpenAlex database doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

PERÚ: Transparent Ranking of Universities (July 2026) by the number of Papers in the Top 1% and Top 10% most cited papers in the OpenAlex database: 2021-2025. doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Transparent Ranking of Universities (July 2026 edition) by the number of Papers in the Top 1% and the Top 10% most cited papers in the OpenAlex database (2021-2025). doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

📢 Nueva publicación! @eomalea.bsky.social y @crifonju.bsky.social junto con @isidroaguillo.bsky.social y @carloslopezosa.bsky.social han publicado un artículo que analiza herramientas SEO. La publicación ya está disponible aquí: doi.org/10.1177/0165... #Research #iMetricsLab #PrimeTime

Assessing discrepancies across SEO tools in the collection of scholarly web metrics - Cristina I. Font-Julian, Carlos Lopezosa, Enrique Orduña-Malea, Isidro F. Aguillo, 2026

Given the growing importance of academic search engine optimization (A-SEO) in enhancing research visibility, it is critical to understand how different SEO ana...

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