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.

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...

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...

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

🗺️ 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...

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!

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

🆕 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...

📌 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

🌐 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

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

✍️ 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...

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

⚖️ 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...

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

🌎 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...

📊 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

🤝 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

@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

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.

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

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

📢 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...

📄 Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. Sagartirtha Chakraborty shows how this situation compares to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains the connection with predatory journals, and outlines solutions. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/aca...

Did you know we’re in the process of creating and establishing a reporting guideline for bibliometric analysis? Items in the list are based on evidence from the literature and expert opinion and now we’re looking for pilot participants to test the guideline’s real-world usefulness in making… (1/2)

📝 Today, the team behind the GLOBAL reporting guideline invites researchers who are preparing or reviewing a bibliometric article to take part in a pilot test of the guideline. 👇 Find more information in the article below [1/2]

💸 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

🎉 That’s a wrap on Metascience 2025! Three packed days of ideas, debates, and community - and we’re still buzzing from it all. We’re grateful to all who spoke, chaired, presented, posted, and participated for making #Metascience2025 such a dynamic gathering 🌍

#metascience2025 day three @rorinstitute.bsky.social fellow, André Brasil presenting on #MetaRoR as a key step in #PRC (Publish, Review, Curate) - service, portal, PRC initiative and ALSO a research project -- investigating/experimenting and reporting AS they do the work

🎓 In our newest blog post, Tanya Lee and Ana Parrón Cabañero explore how PhD trajectories at @unileiden.bsky.social could better reflect the diverse activities, needs and expectations of PhD candidates and why this matters now. Read more here. 👇 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/bey...

For more details, see the @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social blog post that I published today together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the.... @cwts.nl @rorinstitute.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social

How does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries? Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors. Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.

To accelerate the sharing of scientific knowledge, researchers increasingly publish their work on preprint servers. In our latest blog post, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social discuss the state of preprinting in Europe and the Netherlands. 👇 Read it now

📢 New blog post! The Evaluation and Culture focal area at CWTS reflects on two years of work toward fairer research evaluation, inclusive cultures, and better scholarly communication. Read here 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/set... #researchculture #scholarlycommunication #researchevaluation

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

CWTS | Leiden University is hiring a PhD candidate to research paper mills and manipulation in publishing, supervised by RoRI researchers. Apply here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

💼 CWTS, in collaboration with the publishing company Wiley, is opening a new position for a PhD candidate to carry out research on paper mills and related forms of systematic manipulation in publishing. Find out more about the project in our new blog post 👇 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/adv...

🚨 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...

Accepting the status quo in scientific publishing while rejecting journal-based information in research assessments leads to a schizophrenic situation for researchers, says @ludowaltman.bsky.social Why assessment and publishing reform must go hand in hand: www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ass...

I just published a blog post arguing that the reform movements for research assessment and scientific publishing need to better align their agendas. This is crucial for the success of both movements. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ass... @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social

🤝 The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, @ludowaltman.bsky.social argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful only if they manage to align their agendas. 👇 Read about it in our latest blog post

🗝️ The Information & Openness focal area is celebrating two years of progress! The team has made key strides in advancing and promoting open research information practices. Check out our latest blog post to see what they've accomplished and what's coming next. 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/fro...

🎶 When it comes to making sense of data, visualizations rule. But what about translating data into sound? In today's blog post, @lutzb.bsky.social explores 'data sonification' and its many applications and shows: even bibliometric data can be turned into sound. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/met...

In our 🆕 blog post, Louise Bezuidenhout, Thed van Leeuwen, and Francesca Morselli share insights from a recent workshop where Dutch universities discussed the future of monitoring & evaluating #OpenScience, a crucial step towards its success. 🔍 Read the post 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/mon...

📢 New blogpost! 🔓 @kathleengregory.bsky.social, Femmy Admiraal, Pascal Flohr, Andrew Hoffman, Sarah Lippincott & Thed van Leeuwen argue that it is vital to also include the consumer perspective when discussing the development of open research data. 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/reu...

📢 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...

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