QSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:

💸 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

🙏 A big thank you to our contributing authors: Matías Alcántara, Mariángela Nápoli, Judith Naidorf, @rodrigocostas.bsky.social & @ismaelrafols.bsky.social

👏 Thanks to our authors (Juan Pablo Bascur, @rodrigocostas.bsky.social, @suzanv.bsky.social), reviewers (@dwh.bsky.social, @essepuntato.bsky.social, Verena Weimer) & editors (@alexh.bsky.social, Kathryn Zeiler) for their contribution to (and trust in) MetaROR and the publish-review-curate model!

New preprint! 🚨 We study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter during COVID-19 based on ~407M tweets. Both science and misinformation featured prominently during the pandemic, but the interaction between the two has not been studied on this scale before. 🧵 (1/10)

Great news: At #Metascience2025 @wellcometrust.bsky.social just announced its signature of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information! Wellcome CEO John-Arne Røttingen made the important argument that open research information offers crucial evidence to support metascience. @cwts.nl

Together with Fernanda Beigel, @cwtsleiden.bsky.social colleague @ismaelrafols.bsky.social offers a highly critical perspective on developments in open science. Worth a read!

🌏 In our latest blogpost, @ismaelrafols.bsky.social and Fernanda Beigel discuss whether open science actually fulfils its expectations of leading to more equity and improving research's societal impact. 👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics

It took some time, but here it is! "The use of informetric methods to study diversity in the scientific workforce: A literature review" now in QSS 🛰️ w @torressalinas.bsky.social @carmencs.bsky.social @rodrigocostas.bsky.social & Z. Chinchilla 🎆 doi.org/10.1162/qss_... 🎆

Excited to announce I've been appointed Executive Director of the Barcelona Declaration @BarcelonaDORI , (alongside my other consulting activities). We have funding for the next 3 years and will soon discuss the creation of a governance board […]

📢 New Blog Post! Camilla Lindelöw and elinevdw.bsky.social share some preliminary findings from an exploratory study on independent researchers 📚, using OpenAlex data. Read the full post here 👇 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ind...

It is urgent that all authors retain at least part of the copyright. In Spain it is already mandatory for those financed with public funds, to be able to deposit the accepted version in institutional or thematic repositories. Metadata should always be open.

At CWTS we are reorganizing our knowledge agenda into three focal areas www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the.... Here is an introduction to our Focal Area Engagement & Inclusion! www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/int... Feedback, comments, collaborations are most welcome! Reach out if you are interested!

Highly interesting study from the ScholCommLab on how much funding is spent on APCs at the Big 5 journal publishers. It’s a lot, it mostly goes to Springer-Nature and especially Scientific Reports and Nature Communications: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Does science need heroes or does it need to reform? I elaborate on this in a blog post. Idolizing heroes can worsen #bias, #inequality & #competition. Yet, it does require good #leadership to ignite structural change www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/doe...