Do citation counts really capture all citations of a document? In our 🆕 blog post, Paul Donner shows the different ways in which citation counts can vary and proposes a more nuanced way of presenting them: 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬. Read it here 👉️ www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the...

The case for citation count ranges

Citation counts have a prominent role in bibliometrics, but do they really represent all citations of a document? Paul Donner shows the different ways in which citation counts can vary and proposes a ...

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At CWTS, we see scholarly publishing as a collective responsibility. In our Scholarly Communication Policy, @inter-apero-bility.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social & Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner reflect on this and aim to encourage other institutions to implement a similar approach. Read it here 👇

Scholarly communication as a collective responsibility

CWTS has developed a Scholarly Communication Policy that treats publishing as a collective responsibility rather than an individual choice. In this blog post, we introduce the policy, reflect on its c...

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Caroline S. Wagner was a highly regarded scholar in the field of science and technology policy. In his obituary, Paul Wouters reflects on her impressive contributions to research on science policy, the globalization of research, international collaboration, and scientometrics.

In memoriam Caroline S. Wagner

Caroline S. Wagner (1955-2026) was a highly regarded scholar in the field of science and technology policy. Paul Wouters reflects on her impressive contributions to research on science policy, the glo...

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🎓 'Research culture' has become a key concept, but what it means exactly often remains unclear. 🔎 In our new blog post, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner proposes a way for giving the concept greater analytical substance and proposes to consider research culture as a politics of uncertainty.

Research culture as a politics of uncertainty

As research culture increasingly becomes an object of governance, it also raises important conceptual questions. Based on a pitch at the Research Cultures in Transition Roundtable (STS NL 2026, Univer...

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The 2026–2028 strategic plan for the Engagement & Inclusion focal area at @cwts.nl is published! Read the blogpost for an overview of their vision and strategic directions to foster inclusive knowledge systems that engage with societal needs and challenges. 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/foc...

Engaging with societal challenges through diverse knowledge systems

How can we foster diverse and inclusive knowledge systems that genuinely engage with societal needs and challenges? This question lies at the heart of the new strategy of the CWTS Focal Area Engagemen...

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🌎 Scientific collaboration across disciplines is widely seen as necessary for tackling complex problems, but does it also translate into scientific prestige? In our new blog post, @jcortesanchez.bsky.social explores this question. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the...

The mosaic of science: When does disciplinary diversity translate into prestige?

Scientific collaboration across disciplines resembles a mosaic, with each piece contributing to a composition more coherent than any fragment on its own. This diversity is widely seen as necessary for...

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In our latest blog post, Laurens Hessels examines why universities must take an active role in regulating AI use in science and safeguarding research integrity, reliability, and independence. 👇 Read it now on www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/uni...

Universities must act now to regulate AI-use in science

Dutch universities need to quickly establish standards or guidelines for the responsible use of generative AI in research. Currently, individual researchers carry too much responsibility. What do inte...

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The 2026–2028 strategic plan for the Information & Openness focal area at @cwts.nl is published! Read the blogpost by Kathleen Gregory, Mark Neijssel, and Nees Jan van Eck for an overview of our vision and goals to advance the adoption of open research information in the coming years.

Advancing open research information: The next three years of the Information & Openness focal area

Today we published the 2026-2028 strategic plan for the Information & Openness focal area. This blogpost provides an overview of the plan, describing our vision and objectives for advancing the uptake...

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In today's new blog post, Louise Bezuidenhout proposes the development of an #OpenScience Readiness Assessment Framework tool in line with the Dutch Strategy Evaluation Protocol to support research units in the long-term implementation of OS. 👇 Read it now www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/dev...

Developing an Open Science Readiness Assessment Framework for the SEP

Developing long-term OS policies and roadmaps can be a daunting task for research units. This blog post proposes to develop an Open Science Readiness Assessment Framework tool, aligned with the Dutch ...

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Metric-driven research systems tend to persist because governance structures often matter more than metrics themselves. Our latest blog post by @eleonoradagiene.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Guus Dix & @lariviev.bsky.social tackles this issue through the Lithuanian case 🇱🇹 👇 Read it now

🌐 In our new blog post, Juan Pablo Bascur introduces the ORION Dashboard: a tool that makes #openresearchdata accessible, interactive, and easy to explore 👩‍💻. 🔎 Discover the blog post here 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ori...

ORION dashboard: bringing open research data within reach

The ORION dashboard enables easy exploration of CWTS OpenAlex data on BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL que...

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In today's new blog post, Lokman Meho introduces RI²: a diagnostic overlay to support more cautious and governance-aware reading of university rankings. 👇 Read about it now on our blog

When Impact Signals Become Noisy: RI² as an Early Warning Framework for University Rankings

As publication and citation signals face structural distortion, performance metrics require contextual interpretation. This essay introduces RI² as a diagnostic overlay to support more cautious and go...

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🗺️ Adrià Plazas, Nicandro Bovenzi, Nicolau Duran, Enric Fuster and Ismael Rafols offer a new way of visualising the global funding landscape by mapping 82,000 EU research and innovation grants using semantic analysis rather than publication citations. 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the...

The global map of science according to EU funding

In this blog post, we report a global funding landscape created using semantic relations of all EU R&I Framework Programme grants that helps locate regions, organisations and funders in the disciplina...

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It should have been obvious, but I didn't realise that the best thing about publishing a book would be when someone reads and critically engages with the work and then builds on it. Thanks to the authors!

Leiden Madtrics@leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🆕 New blog post: @realjoonha.bsky.social and Tanya Lee reflect on the CWTS research seminar with @samuelmoore.org earlier this year and expand Moore's view on Open Access publishing to broader research infrastructure and culture. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/rec...

My first piece on Leiden Madtrics comes out from a triple joy: 1. Joy of reading a thought-provoking book and listening to the presentation from @samuelmoore.org 2. Joy of discussing with others who actually care the research commons 3. Joy of writing together with Tanya, a PhD colleague at CWTS

Leiden Madtrics@leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🆕 New blog post: @realjoonha.bsky.social and Tanya Lee reflect on the CWTS research seminar with @samuelmoore.org earlier this year and expand Moore's view on Open Access publishing to broader research infrastructure and culture. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/rec...

🆕 New blog post: @realjoonha.bsky.social and Tanya Lee reflect on the CWTS research seminar with @samuelmoore.org earlier this year and expand Moore's view on Open Access publishing to broader research infrastructure and culture. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/rec...

Reclaiming the scholarly ecosystem: Reflections on the first CWTS research seminar of 2026

In the first research seminar at CWTS of 2026, Samuel Moore argued that Open Access publishing took the wrong path and proposed alternatives with a new ‘commons’ approach. As PhD candidates studying s...

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📌 What are the key priority themes for the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network in 2026? In this 🆕 blog, Ana Ranitovic outlines priorities like aligning CRIS systems with open principles and promoting open data in rankings. 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/loo... @barcelonadori.bsky.social

Looking ahead to 2026: key priorities of the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network

In late 2025, the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network met in Leiden to reflect and set priorities for 2026. This blog outlines those priorities and highlights how the growing network of universi...

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🌐 How can open science be resilient in the face of geopolitical pressures? @kathleen-gregory.bsky.social and @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social elaborate on four discussion points coming out of a recent workshop discussing this. 👇 Read their blog post now on Leiden Madtrics

Resilience in Times of Crisis: Strengthening Open Science Against Geopolitical Pressures

How can open science be resilient in the face of geopolitical pressures? Drawing on findings from a recent workshop, we suggest four discussion points that need further consideration as funding agenci...

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Nice work by our @cwtsnl.bsky.social PhD candidate Nina Gogadze! @coarassessment.bsky.social

Leiden Madtrics@leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · 7mo ago

✍️ How global is research assessment reform? In a new blog post, Nina Gogadze introduces an interactive dashboard that brings CoARA signatories into clearer view: showing where the organisations are located and how action plan engagement is evolving. Read here 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/lau...

✍️ How global is research assessment reform? In a new blog post, Nina Gogadze introduces an interactive dashboard that brings CoARA signatories into clearer view: showing where the organisations are located and how action plan engagement is evolving. Read here 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/lau...

Launch of a new tool to track CoARA signatories

How global is research assessment reform? Our author explores a practical, interactive dashboard she developed, allowing users to easily view up-to-date information on CoARA signatories worldwide, the...

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According to Beigel et al (2025), commercial academic publishing oligopolies are draining science. They call for community control but, as @eleonoradagiene.bsky.social writes, the Lithuanian case shows this to be hard after dismantling domestic journal publishing infrastructure. 👇 Read the post now

The drain of science: a call for action and the bridges we burned

Commercial academic publishing oligopolies are draining science. Beigel et al. (2025) call for community control, but the Lithuanian case shows this is difficult after dismantling domestic journal pub...

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⚖️ Who is best in place to regulate the use of research output for training generative AI systems? In our new post, Dmitry Kochetkov explores this question and shows how generative AI is reshaping copyright and the future of scholarly publishing. Read more 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/cop...

Copyright, GenAI, and the future of academic publishing

Generative artificial intelligence poses significant challenges to copyright law and the principles of open science. In a new preprint, I study this complex interplay and existing regulatory framework...

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A vital and informative blog post on what the US’s withdrawal from UNESCO means for open science

Leiden Madtrics@leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🌎 What does the withdrawal of the US from UNESCO mean for Open Science and Open Science infrastructure? While much is still unclear, @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social and Jon Verriet from @unesconl.bsky.social argue that the implications could be profound. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the...

🌎 What does the withdrawal of the US from UNESCO mean for Open Science and Open Science infrastructure? While much is still unclear, @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social and Jon Verriet from @unesconl.bsky.social argue that the implications could be profound. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the...

The withdrawal of the US from UNESCO: What does this mean for Open Science?

The withdrawal of the US from UNESCO and US legislation being increasingly at odds with Open Science values raises concerns regarding Open Science infrastructure in the US. While much is still unclear...

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📊 Today, the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 has been released. The new Open Edition marks a next step towards more open and more inclusive research analytics for universities. Our new blog post highlights the most significant developments. 👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics

The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 - More open, more inclusive, more informative

The release of the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 marks a next step toward more open and more inclusive research analytics for universities. This post highlights the most significant developments.

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🤝 Amid international concerns over the China Scholarship Council, our newest blog's authors Qianqian Xie & Alfredo Yegros look at the data. They reveal trends, collaborations and broader implications, and ultimately argue for a "balanced, evidence-based approach". 👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics

Balancing opportunity and risk: rethinking China Scholarship Council programmes amid geopolitical tensions

Amid international concerns over the China Scholarship Council (CSC), especially regarding academic freedom and sensitive knowledge transfer, our study analyses CSC-funded research (2009–2021) to reve...

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@crossref.bsky.social is a crucial source of open bibliographic metadata for articles published in scientific journals, but how complete is its metadata on preprints? In our latest blog post, @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social and @ludowaltman.bsky.social investigate 👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics

Crossref as a source of open bibliographic metadata for preprints

Crossref is a crucial source of open bibliographic metadata for articles published in scientific journals. Importantly, however, Crossref can also serve as a source of bibliographic metadata for prepr...

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What does it mean to use #genAI "responsibly" in research? In this post, @petertarras.bsky.social & I respond to a taxonomy which equates disclosure of use with transparency & responsibility. We object to this & call for more conversations about how & why it's used, who is harmed, & who benefits.

Peter Tarras@petertarras.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social and I have responded to a blog, recently published on @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social, which argued that using AI responsibly in research means being transparent about it. We object that supposed transparency obscures more fundamental ethical questions.

📄 We have a new blog post! Read it below 👇

Peter Tarras@petertarras.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social and I have responded to a blog, recently published on @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social, which argued that using AI responsibly in research means being transparent about it. We object that supposed transparency obscures more fundamental ethical questions.

The blog of @cwts.nl @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social world-leading #scientometrics centre, has spotlighted #GAIDeT. The question is no longer if #AI use in research should be declared, but how to do it transparently and responsibly. 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai... #AcademicPublishing

GAIDeT: a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing

Transparency of AI use in academia matters for authors, editors, reviewers, readers and repository moderators. This blog post introduces GAIDeT, a taxonomy for the structured disclosure of Generative ...

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