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 · 6mo 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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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
'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:
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Registration is open for the esss european summer school for scientometrics! esss.info
european summer school for scientometrics – esss.info
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U^CHASS@uchass.ugr.es · last yr.🗞️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! 👀
The special track on Open Research Information at @stienid2025.bsky.social is open to submissions via the regular conference submission tool.
29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators@stienid2025.bsky.social · 2y agoAnd we are live! www.stienid2025.org Call for Special Sessions and Papers open January 2025. Spread the news and see you there!
💥 New: Metrics sonification – What we can learn from listening to the output of hyperprolific academic authors ✍️ @lutzb.bsky.social & Christian Ganser #Bibliometrics #AcademicSky #DataViz
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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Reminder: The deadline for submissions to the 29th Annual Science and Technology Indicators Conference (STI 2025) is fast approaching!🚨 🔗 Submit your work here: auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st... Need more time? Just reach out at sti-enid2025@bristol.ac.uk we're happy to accommodate!
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Proposal of a gold standard combining different UN SDG assignments from different data providers: doi.org/10.1007/s111... @lutzb.bsky.social Many thanks to @clarivateag.bsky.social, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, and OSDG.ai for providing SDG assignments.
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Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? My latest for @retractionwatch.com: retractionwatch.com/2025/03/19/p... @lutzb.bsky.social, @mollymking.bsky.social
Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves?
While thousands of papers cite themselves, the percentage that do so is relatively low. Haunschild & Bornmann/arXiv.org While using bibliometric techniques to measure how disruptive research pa…
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