🚀 Mieux valoriser la recherche à l’Université de Lorraine grâce à #OpenAlex Entre février et juillet 2025, l’équipe Bibliométrie de l’Université de Lorraine a mené un vaste chantier d’alignement des publications scientifiques dans la base ouverte OpenAlex. Résultat : un référencement enrichi […]

Citing openness and validity issues, Sorbonne University in France decides to no longer supply data to the THE-ranking and thus get delisted. This is 4th major European university to take this step, after Utrecht, Zürich and Lorraine. #universityrankings www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

📣 Sorbonne University withdraws from the Times Higher Education World University Rankings! 🎓 This withdrawal is not just a symbolic gesture. The decision comes as part of a broader strategy to promote #openscience and reform research assessment.

So that news is out: Sorbonne University is withdrawing from the THE University ranking (or rankings, since there is a new one every other week) www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb... @sorbonne-universite.fr @barcelonadori.bsky.social @coarassessment.bsky.social thank you @nalarcon.bsky.social

[ #VeilleESR #WRankings ] @sorbonne-universite.fr : retrait du classement THE en 2026 pour « privilégier les bases de données ouvertes » par @newstankeduc.bsky.social

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky Fraud and cover-up richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Our analysis on possible effects of APC caps, which would limit grant money spending on publication fees, just like the NIH is considering for their updated public access policy, in the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social today 👇🏼#ScholCommLab #openaccess #publishingmarket

Utrecht University Library will not renew their Web of Science license. Access to this database with closed, proprietary data ends in 2026. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce.... Step by step we foster a science system with open metadata. We committed to that by signing the @barcelonadori.bsky.social

L'université d'Utrecht arrête son abonnement au Web of science fin 2025 (mais garde Scopus) : www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

Intéressante étude de @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social sur la couverture WOS/Openalex. De quoi envisager un choix en faveur d'une base ouverte ?

Research Paper (preprint): An Analysis of the Effects of Open Science Indicators on Citations in the French Open Science Monitor www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.20747 #openscience #scholcomm #OSIs #France

Looking forward to the conference - and to discuss the importance and implications of open research information for the STI community! #scientometrics #bibliometrics #researchassessment

Le #MESR valide le regroupement des trois opérateurs #ABES, #AMUE et #CINES. www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/fr/vers-un-o...

Découverte d'un réseau d’auteurs impliqués dans des manipulations de citations et de peer-review. Résultat : rétractation de 122 articles publiés dans 5 revues Frontiers ; le réseau étant actif chez plusieurs éditeurs, 4 000+ articles pourraient être concernés. www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/07...

Claro sur "le pays dont tu as marché la terre" - une lecture qui touche exactement. towardgrace.blogspot.com/2025/08/la-c...

Long running Indian high court case about Sci-Hub ends the way it was always going to. in.mashable.com/tech/98949/s...

Academia has a new preprints problem. Thousands of researchers are essentially playing slot machines with large language models, pulling the lever over and over hoping to hit the jackpot of novel theoretical physics insights www.openresearch.wtf/academia-has...

🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration! The University of Zürich has joined @cern.bsky.social and the @swissrn.bsky.social as signatories, showing Switzerland’s growing commitment to open and transparent research information.⬇️

Two times per year Google Scholar re-indexes its full database. That means your profile's indicators going down slightly to be recovered in a few weeks. This year the numbers are not fast recovering and in fact there is a gap of about 35 million records still not in the database.

Stephan Gauch (HU Berlin/KB) has reinterpreted the loose-leaf collection for bibliometrics, namely as a collection of short texts on core ideas of bibliometrics. It is aimed at students, practitioners and administrators, policymakers or simply anyone... Feel free to share! tinyurl.com/4a6ykvhp

🌐 New forms of community-led coordination are emerging around the Barcelona Declaration! National networks in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands are aligning strategies, supporting implementation, and sharing local insights. 🔗 barcelona-declaration.org/national_net...

Petit exercice à partir des données #Infoscience (2019–2025), enrichies via l’API #OpenAlex. Objectif : évaluer la qualité de la réconciliation des affiliations EPFL via #ROR dans OpenAlex et repérer les cas mal ou non reconnus. Résultat sur 30000 publications et quelques

One of our upcoming technical projects at ROR is to implement the new automatic affiliation matching strategy adopted by OpenAlex and described in a January post on our blog -- read all about it now in case you missed it then! doi.org/10.71938/mtx...

KB's Dimity Stephen is part of an interdisciplinary team working on Guidance List for the repOrting of Bibliometric AnaLyses (GLOBAL), a reporting guideline with the aim to improve reliability, robustness, and reproducibility. A scoping review has just been published: tinyurl.com/4tkn5yze

A bold step for open research 🟨🟪👣 Wellcome has joined the Barcelona Declaration. A big move from one of the world’s leading research funders. With persistent identifiers and open metadata policies, they’re helping shift how research is recognized and rewarded. 🔗 wellcome.org/news/wellcom...

74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....

These NPG spinoff journals are out of control

🧑‍🍳From the Barcelona Declaration kitchen: At the Bologna Meeting, community-led breakout sessions explored key themes: metadata, infrastructures, evaluation, sustainability, and more. 📄 Discover the ingredients for change: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Ever wondered why no #bibliometrics lit on #German #legal #scholarship exists? Our new SSRN paper (@mpilhlt Research Paper Series 2025-10, with D. Fejzo, C. Rimmert) shows: we don't have the data. #webofscience and #scopus don't cut it, only #openalex is somewhat useful. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Institutions without RoR identifier will be penalyzed in the next July 2025 edition of the Ranking Web of Universities to be published soon

A guide to academic event names

I've been putting a lot of focus on #metadata and metadata quality recently, both in research and in work with @cometadata.bsky.social . Here's a blog post I wrote about why it matters, to me, and to @pkp.sfu.ca : pkp.sfu.ca/2025/07/11/m...

Le savions-tu ? Alors que l'été s'annonce, de concert avec les Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson, nous préparons la rentrée, la parution de "Le Pays dont tu as marché la terre" (28 août 2025), ainsi que la tournée des librairies et salons (dates/détails à venir). Restez tunés !

☄️ @cometadata.bsky.social is working towards a community approach to metadata enrichment. We are involved with our colleague @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social 💡 Find out more in this article 👉 www.cometadata.org/blog/comet-i... 📆 Join their community meeting on 15 July 👉 datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🛠️ Collaboration for Openness At the University of Milan, 23 Italian institutions explored real-world strategies alongside OpenAlex, @opencitations.bsky.social @openaire.bsky.social Part of the #BarcelonaDeclaration 📄https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20250709_university_of_milan_workshop/

For publication metadata nerds: viz of the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The link goes to the online version that is fully animated, and has additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful. docs.google.com/presentation...

LIBER Awards 2025 ✨ Congratulations to all our winners for the OCLC Library Innovation Awards & Best Poster Award🏆 #LIBER2025

Thrilled to have presented our poster on Sorbonne Université's Affiliation Metadata Curation in @OpenAlex at Liber 2025 in Lausanne! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our poster and shared their insights!

🤝 Welcome Wellcome! Wellcome Trust is the first UK funder to sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. Their support strengthens the global push for open, reliable, and reusable research metadata. 👉 barcelona-declaration.org/signatories/ #OpenResearchInformation

📢 The Bologna Meeting Report is now out! Nearly 200 participants from 35 countries — in the room and online — joined us to reflect on progress and shape next steps for the Barcelona Declaration. 📄 Read the full report on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

New on the blog, John Chodacki @chodacki.bsky.social, Adam Buttrick, and Maria Praetzellis @mariapraetzellis.bsky.social share why California Digital Library @caldiglib.bsky.social is invested in COMET, explaining their alignment with our principles. #metadata www.cometadata.org/blog/cdls-co...

Jeangirard, E. (2025) ‘Works-magnet: Accelerating Metadata Curation for Open Science’. arXiv. Available at: doi.org/10.48550/arX....

PCI RR : Wiley devient le premier éditeur à adopter une position explicitement "hostile" à PCI, remettant en cause la compatibilité de ses journaux avec l’archivage et l’évaluation ouverte des preprints : osf.io/tn8mh #peerreview #openscience

From today, every paper submitted to Nature -if published - will be accompanied by peer reviewers comments & authors rebuttal. We started the trial in 2020; we now want to open up the review process & showcase its role in shaping & improving papers 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Admettons, je dis bien admettons, que vous ayez adoré mon article sur l'histoire de la liste des chercheurs très cités paru dans la revue QSS en debut d'année. 1- Vous avez bon goût. 2- Voici un billet de blog susceptible de vous intéresser ! blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Very much enjoyed reading the paper 'Estimating transformative agreement impact on hybrid open access: A comparative large-scale study using Scopus, Web of Science and open metadata' by @najko.bsky.social. arxiv.org/abs/2504.150... @crossref.bsky.social

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Glad to see this report about 'reclaiming academic ownership of scholarly communication system'. I like presentation of diamond OA and publish-review-curate (PRC) as complementary approaches. Important to note that PRC is not only about reclaiming ownership but also about various other issues.