Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

OpenAlex is increasingly used as an open alternative to proprietary bibliometric databases, but an important question remains: how reliable is its institutional affiliation data?

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Global science is often described as if it were a single system. In reality, the conditions under which researchers work differ enormously from one country to another: funding, infrastructure, time for research, job security, academic freedom. 🧵

A new effort on reproducibility just published in Nature. I'm proud to be one of 400+ co-authors who contributed. www.nature.com/collections/... A large group of researchers set out to replicate, test for robustness, and assess reproducibility of findings across the social and behavioural sci.

"the government has been pursuing a plan to develop 400 world-class scientific journals as affordable alternatives to ones based in Western countries; by 2023 the country had about 178 English-language open-access journals, nearly half of which charged no APC" www.science.org/content/arti...

For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...

Last year, the KB presented the initial OPENBIB data release, which contains selected and curated metadata from OpenAlex. See this new blog post tinyurl.com/58zmb79z for an updated data release based on the OAL snapshot from July 25. This data release also features a KB author disambiguation system.

US policymakers & scientists show significantly lower support for proposals with China-based vs. Germany-based collaborators (US policymakers: 68% support for Germany-collaboration vs. 28% for identical China-collaboration proposals, US scientists: 48% vs. 30%) www.nber.org/papers/w34789

This is a new preprint on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international researcher mobility. The analysis estimates approximately 14,700 fewer international researcher movements between 2020 and 2022 than expected, corresponding to a global loss of about 3.7%. osf.io/preprints/so...

If someone paid you $4.75 every night you slept 7+ hours, would you sleep more? And--more importantly--would that increase in sleep change your behavior in other meaningful ways? This new paper ran an experiment to find out.

"This paper introduces a document type classifier with the purpose to optimise the distinction between research and non-research journal publications in OpenAlex" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We're looking for a post-doc to join our international, multidisciplinary project looking at how evaluation systems influence researchers' questionable practices. A great chance to get involved with a collaborative team doing exciting work on research integrity. Get in touch if you're interested!

"...adoption of AI in science presents what seems to be a paradox: an expansion of individual scientists’ impact but a contraction in collective science’s reach, as AI-augmented work moves collectively towards areas richest in data" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This looks like a great opportunity! The University of Vienna invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies. careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Explainers & tutorials are a great way to criticize current practices with a positive twist. Tailoring them to a specific substantive (!) subfield can greatly increase uptake. Forget about novelty; if some statistican said sth in the 70s but no one was around to hear it, say it again.>

Health professional mobility debates still focus on numbers. Who leaves. Who returns. How to offset shortages. This paper shows something else: international education reshapes how health professionals judge responsibility and act within constrained systems. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Scientific excellence is clustering in a few ‘superstar’ cities. New York, Boston, London and San Francisco now host 12% of the world's top scientists. The Global South remains largely absent, with the notable exception of Beijing's dramatic rise rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝 Google search interest shows a stable pattern: 🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve 🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier #MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁 📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024) #dataviz #ggplot2

The Robust Bayesian Meta-Analysis package got updated with additional vignettes explaining how to perform Bayesian model-averaged publication bias-adjusted - multilevel meta-analysis (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...) - multilevel meta-regression (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...)

Delighted to share this very important article with sobering results relevant for all migration researchers worldwide. Lead by @carrasco-jig.bsky.social, together with @mariegodin.bsky.social, @cvar-sil.bsky.social and yours truly. Open Access here: doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Only 40 % of the publications identified as top 3 in self-evaluations also rank among the top 3 by citation performance (based on a survey of 2,331 researchers). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

China's unilateral visa-free policies have significantly increased the number of co-authored publications between China and other countries. This effect is achieved by enhancing transportation accessibility and mobility, which facilitates cross-border research collaboration arxiv.org/pdf/2512.12189

There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata. subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...

This article revisits the early history of Soviet scientometrics, examining the role of Zinaida Mulchenko in writing Naukometriya... Mulchenko’s diminished positionality as the co-author of the book can be understood through the lens of the Matilda Effect direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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...

Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

"significant differences between legitimate and potentially predatory publishers are evident in terms of text length, metadata, visual complexity, and typography." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I just reviewed the article 'Implicit reporting standards in bibliometric research: what can reviewers' comments tell us about reporting completeness?' by @dimitystephen.bsky.social and colleagues. I like the article a lot! Article: arxiv.org/abs/2508.162... Review: prereview.org/reviews/1739...

An analysis based on a global panel dataset covering 119 countries from 1996 to 2021 shows that academic freedom at the country level is associated with the citation impact of future papers published by researchers from that country www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New reviewed preprint, published by @elife.bsky.social at doi.org/10.7554/eLif.... We study two effects in science funding across 14 different funding programmes from 6 research funders across Europe and North America: (1) The Matthew effect; and (2) and the early-career setback effect. 🧵1/8

Among the 62,701 active OA journals, the WoS indexes 6,157, SCP indexes 7,351, while OpenAlex indexes 34,217. A striking observation is the presence of 24,976 OA j. exclusively in OpenAlex, whereas only 182 are exclusively present in the WoS and 373 in SCP. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Join our next Open Research Seminar with Dr. Annett Hoppe, PostDoc at Working Group Visual Analytics, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library (TIB): "GROBI: Open-Source Tools for Accessible Bibliometric Analysis". October 14, 2–3 p.m. Register: tinyurl.com/5pm8hvk8

I'm thrilled to share our latest study, published open access in Scientometrics. The paper is by Jochem Tolsma, myself, and Anne Maaike Mulders. Here's the paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Here's the replication website: coviddutchacademia.netlify.app

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

"Removal rates were highest in hallways of the humanities, shared humanities/social sciences as well as in central facilities hallways"

Just published in Scientometrics: "Who Talks to the Prof? Gender Differences in Interaction with Senior Scholars at Four Academic Conferences." Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... "Women were more likely to indicate that their “work was not ground-breaking or sufficiently novel” for the prestigious journals and they were advised against submitting"

First insights into address unification in OpenAlex, WoS & Scopus. Findings: OpenAlex holds more unique addresses, but fewer item–address combinations. The share of addresses unified by our KB approach is lower than in proprietary DBs—yet promising & likely to improve. tinyurl.com/mv2xdtrc

Prevalence of predatory journals in OpenAlex "Users of OpenAlex should be aware of the presence of many questionable or fraudulent journals in its data and consider methods to adapt their samples accordingly." open-bibliometrics.de/posts/202506...

"Across databases, delve (+1,500%), underscore (+1,000%), and intricate (+700%) had the largest increases between 2022 and 2024. Growth in LLM-term usage was much higher in STEM fields than in social sciences and arts and humanities" arxiv.org/abs/2509.09596

"Early parenthood was associated with the largest gender gaps in long-term scientific citations, favoring men; these disparities disappeared among those who became parents after age 35. Men were also more likely to secure academic positions regardless of parenthood timing" osf.io/preprints/so...

It seems that Bluesky is becoming increasingly popular among scholars in our field www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration: A Longitudinal Analysis of Global Network Evolution "The results show the significant direct effects and homophily effects of academic freedom on network evolution..." direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science arxiv.org/abs/2508.18620

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...

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

I scraped unpublished manuscripts from bioarxiv and injected half of them with a hidden prompt. I then asked three LLMs to review the paper - in half cases I told the LLM to check for prompt injections. 📈 Prompt injections lead to more recommendations 📉 Prompt checks eliminated this effect

Generative AI is nearly 5 times less accurate than humans. "In a direct comparison of LLM-generated and human-authored science summaries, LLM summaries were nearly five times more likely to contain broad generalizations (OR = 4.85, 95% CI [3.06, 7.70])." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...