New on our blog: Christian Boulanger, Daniel Fejzo & Christine Rimmert on the poor coverage of German law publications in bibliometric databases. OpenAlex shows limited but growing reach—yet lacks affiliation & citation data: tinyurl.com/bpa736hz

Do, 25.9, 14:15-17:00, Raum MG 272: Aktuelle Perspektiven der Wissenschafts- und Techniksoziologie (organisiert vom Vorstand der Sektion @annekkrueger.bsky.social , Jan-Felix Schrape, @cschbrt.bsky.social , @juliaschubert.bsky.social)

Der 42. DGS Kongress rückt näher und wir sind mit zwei spannenden Sektionsveranstaltungen vertreten -- kommt vorbei!

In a new blog post on open bibliometrics, Barbara Scheidt from Forschungszentrum Jülich presents some interesting observations on the status quo of publisher name variants in WoS, Scopus, and OpenAlex (OAL) and describes ongoing work to standardise publisher names in OpenAlex. tinyurl.com/3938u2yt

Oops, I got a bit carried away there and forgot to include the link to our analysis and dataset 🙈 doi.org/10.59350/sch...

📢 Transparency in AI use in academia is urgently needed. In this blog post, @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social, Natalia Tsybuliak, Jaime A. Texeira da Silva & @yanasychikova.bsky.social introduce GAIDeT - a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai...

The #KB now documents its #infrastructure for #bibliometrics — covering data processing, QA & curation. Open processes faciltate #reproducibility & foster shared learning on effective research infrastructures: tinyurl.com/zma935w7

The Data Infrastructure of the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie: An Enabling Intermediary between Raw Data and Analysis doi.org/10.1162/qss.... This paper provides a very helpful overview of the data infrastructure of @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social.

📣 Starting today: Science Maps. Bibliometrics between understanding and visualization We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.

Valeria Aman analyzes on our blog open-bibliometrics how many #OAL papers with German affiliations aren’t in #WoS and vice versa. Reasons: OAL items` journals never/partly indexed in WoS; WoS items not matched toOAL stem from missing/incorrect DOIs; incomplete affiliation data. tinyurl.com/yt3wpat3

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

Katy Börner, Professor of Engineering and Information Science at Indiana University, and artist, gives a talk on "Mapping and Modeling Science, Technology, and Education" in our next KB Open Research Seminar, on August 20, 3–4 p.m. CET. Register here: tinyurl.com/uuyjk9vs

Just out: Open metadata enable large-scale hybrid open access studies. Cross-database comparison using major bibliometric databases shows that transformative agreements have been the main driver of open access. But paywalls still dominate. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

#Zitationsdaten sollten auch in der #Rechtswissenschaft offen sein - und dazu müssen sie auch erst einmal erhoben werden. Die @vukoabrandenburg.bsky.social‬ zu unserer Studie zum Fehlen der juristischen Literatur in Bibliometriedatenbanken.

📢 New report published The event, which took place on April 25, featured discussions on the Barcelona Declaration, current Helmholtz activities, and the challenges & opportunities surrounding open research information. 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OpenScience #OpenResearch #BarcelonaDeclaration

Two new publications by KB colleagues Nick Haupka and Najko Jahn on OpenAlex/with OAL data in comparison to Scopus and WoS: arxiv.org/abs/2507.22479 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Wir sind am @ibi-hu.bsky.social Partnerin dieser spannenden Veranstaltung am 23.10.2025: Berlin – Stadt des offenen Wissens für Wissenschaft, Verwaltung, Zivilgesellschaft, Kultur www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/... #OpenScience

People discuss publication ethics and research culture in #Metascience. Meanwhile I have to adjust my #bibliometric analysis for authors who have co-authored 17 #SystematicReviews (six times first author!) in a single year.

Forschungsdateninfrastruktur: Analyse und Erkenntnisse aus der Trendumfrage des Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW). #CMSHUBerlin #Forschung #Umfrage #Wissenschaft www.cms.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuelles...

💸 Our latest blog post describes how the research project “Tracking Research Funding Flows in the Global South” by @clacso.bsky.social, @cwts.nl & Siris Academic aims to make visible & analyze ways in which international science funding circulates. 👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics

In a new blog post, Nick Haupka describes a classifier he has developed to distinguish between research and non-research articles in #OpenAlex, having previously analysed that OpenAlex categorises many more journal articles as articles than Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed. tinyurl.com/t8zhaywd

Shape research culture + practices! Join the Responsible Research in Action Unconference 2025, Sept 22–24, Berlin, to collaborate on innovative solutions – from reproducibility checks to researcher-driven funding models. rr-in-action2025.org @dfg.de @ucoimbra.bsky.social @berlinualliance.bsky.social

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

The program looks amazing! Looking forward to an engaging and productive dialogue on S&T policy in Bristol!

Als Infor­mations­zentrum für Lebens­wissen­schaften bieten wir Studierenden vielfältige Möglichkeiten, wertvolle Praxiserfahrungen zu sammeln und eigene wissenschaftliche Projekte umzusetzen - wie etwa die aktuelle Ausschreibung unten. Infos dazu und weitere Angebote: www.zbmed.de/ueber-u...

Does citation context information improve the validity of citation analysis in assessing research quality? Paul Donner and colleagues found that measures derived from citation contexts correlate more strongly with peer ratings from Faculty Opinions than simple citation counts: tinyurl.com/9xekhx4w

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...

📊 Donner & Korytkowski (2025): In mathematics authors are often listed alphabetically to signal equal work. But 🇵🇱 data show that in 20% of cases contributions differ, and habilitation candidates overstate their input by ~11% doi.org/10.1007/s111... #ResearchEthics #AcademicIntegrity #HigherEducation

Now online: Videos from the workshop "Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science", April 2-4, 2025, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #LLM #historyofscience #HPSS

Generative KI-Systeme, insbesondere ihre Epistemologie, Politik und Ästhetik, stehen am 7. Dezember 2025 an der TU Dresden im Fokus. Ziel des Symposiums, zu dem Sun-ha Hong, Rainer Mühlhoff und Hito Steyerl Keynotes beisteuern, ist es Wissenschaftler*innen... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=29781

The DORA and CoARA guidelines shape current debates on research assessment reform with a critical stance on (journal) metrics. What might evaluative bibliometrics look like in this context? Join our Open Research Seminar this Thursday, 2-3pm! Register: tinyurl.com/cmsjk7w3

Abstract submission and travel grant application for the 9th World Conference on Research Integrity are open. Please consider to submit an abstract and to reshare this message. lnkd.in/eJ9hmaRs

Research assessment reform is essential to break the cycle of dependence on high-impact commercial journals and related metrics. ➡️ Reclaiming academic ownership of the #ScholarlyCommunication system buff.ly/0C0Wqfn #OpenScience

Najko Jahn: Estimating transformative agreement impact on hybrid open access: A comparative large-scale study using Scopus, Web of Science and open metadata https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15038 https://arxiv.org/html/2504.15038

Two recent studies on "Transformative" Agreements, same conclusion - "Trapped in Transformative Agreements?" by W. Benedikt Schmal arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224 "How open are hybrid journals included in transformative agreements?" by Najko Jahn www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Webinar Alert SoBigData-PPP: #OpenAIRE Facilities for the RI 25 June 2025 | 11:00–12:00 CEST Learn how OpenAIRE tools accelerate Research Infrastructure success with real-world demos and expert insights. Register: www.openaire.eu/eventdetail/... #OpenScience #EOSC #ResearchInfrastructure

🎉 Workshop Recap: PIDs for Academic Events We recently organized a workshop at @tibhannover.bsky.social dedicated to exploring the potential of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) for academic events. ➡️ Workshop summary and presentations: www.pid-network.de/en/news/even... #OpenScience

In our blog, we continuously share updates on analyses regarding data quality in #OpenAlex as well as curation results. A new analysis by Paul Donner explores the prevalence of #predatoryjournals in OpenAlex, based on the resource #CPR: open-bibliometrics.de/posts/202506...

Yes. Tomorrow. Confirmed.

Curious about disruption indicators? On June 11, 2-3, we will have two presentations and a discussion on: "How to measure disruption in science?" Register here: tinyurl.com/rutwxez9.

Was inspiring meeting Prof. @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca at GESIS today. Time to rev up the postgres server once more! #NewProjects #Bibliometrics #AcademicSky

Infrastructure is a collective responsibility – lessons from scholarly #publishing and #metadata @chodacki.bsky.social @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca‬ et al. for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social‬

At this year’s @inorms-reg.bsky.social #INORMS2025 conference, #OpenAIRE contributed to the conversation on how #OpenScience and responsible #research assessment go hand in hand. Read the insights: www.openaire.eu/blogs/reflec...

Auch die heutige Ausgabe des Research.Table greift unsere Kritik sowie die des @nnwiss.bsky.social an den Kosten der #ExStra auf! #ExitExzellenz @table.media @amreibahr.bsky.social

Join our next KB Open Research Seminar on Tue, May 20, 3–4pm on the German Excellence Initiative. Prof. Heinze, Dr. Habicht & Dr. Tunger present their paper “Field size as a predictor of ‚excellence‘. The selection of subject fields in Germany’s Excellence Initiative”. Register: tinyurl.com/4te94k9r

The KB provides access to curated OpenAlex data on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1530... and Github: tinyurl.com/yc4w9vk4. Curations focus on GER research and comprise the following entities: - Addresses - Publishers - Funding info - Document types - Transformative agreements - Authors (in the future).

Thrilled to join the #INNBI project - connecting national bibliometric infrastructures across 🇺🇦🇦🇲🇬🇪🇲🇩🇩🇪 to improve research visibility and data quality through local expertise. Working alongside amazing partners from Yerevan, Tbilisi, Chișinău & Hanover! www.dzhw.eu/en/forschung... #OpenScience

Several #KB partners have collaborated on an analysis of #openalex data quality aspects (here in particular the completeness of references as a fundamental backbone for bibliometric databases), more contributions to follow! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🦠 Does science rely on early career researchers for more technical and specialized tasks? In our next seminar, @aschniedermann.bsky.social will present results for the field of biomedicine. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 11.04.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...