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IHC<p>🆕 Congratulations to Práticas da História on its 10th anniversary! 🥳</p><p>👉 It's been 10 years since the publication of the first issue of the Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past and we are happy with a few accomplishments: <a href="https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/pdh-10years/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/pdh-10years/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TheoryOfHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Historiography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Historiography</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/UsesOfThePast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UsesOfThePast</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/ErihPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErihPlus</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TeoriaDaHist%C3%B3ria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeoriaDaHistória</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Historiografia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Historiografia</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/UsosDoPassado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UsosDoPassado</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/AcessoAberto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcessoAberto</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Ci%C3%AAnciaAberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CiênciaAberta</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Ci%C3%AAnciaPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CiênciaPT</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Hist%C3%B3ria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>História</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a></p>
Christian Boulanger<p>Ever wondered why no <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bibliometrics</span></a> lit on <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholarship</span></a> exists? Our new SSRN paper (@mpilhlt Research Paper Series 2025-10, with D. Fejzo, C. Rimmert) shows: we don't have the data. <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/webofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webofscience</span></a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scopus</span></a> don't cut it, only <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/openalex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openalex</span></a> is somewhat useful.</p><p><a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5350481" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5350481</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
infoDOCKET<p>New From <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Elsevier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elsevier</span></a> / <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a>: "Introducing <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CiteScore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CiteScore</span></a> 2024: A Comprehensive and Transparent Metric for Journal Impact" <a href="https://blog.scopus.com/introducing-citescore-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.scopus.com/introducing-ci</span><span class="invisible">tescore-2024/</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/scholcomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholcomm</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>libraries</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/metrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metrics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a></p>
steph.space<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> <a href="https://openalex.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">openalex.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Interesting open-access alternative to scientific literature databases like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a></p><p>From: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@tub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tub</span></a></span><br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@tub@openbiblio.social/114559706766379637" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openbiblio.social/@tub@openbib</span><span class="invisible">lio.social/114559706766379637</span></a></p>
Universitätsbibliothek TUHH<p>Googlen könnt ihr. ✔️ Für die systematische Suchen sind <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Datenbanken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datenbanken</span></a> dann die nächste Challenge. <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a> und <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scopus</span></a> sind hierfür wichtige Angebote von Verlagen, die wir für euch finanzieren. </p><p>Aber es gibt auch eine freie Alternative. Florian stellt euch <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> vor. Wir sind gespannt auf eure Erfahrungen. </p><p><a href="https://www.tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2025/05/20/was-ist-openalex-und-wie-kann-man-es-fuer-die-recherche-nutzen/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/20/was-ist-openalex-und-wie-kann-man-es-fuer-die-recherche-nutzen/</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Retraction Watch: Scopus indexed a journal with a fake editorial board and a sham archive. “Scopus indexed Science of Law in July 2024. According to its profile in the database, the journal is published by the ‘Editorial Team of SoL.’ However, ‘the editorial team’ and many members of the editorial board are fake names and that such individuals do not actually exist.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/retraction-watch-scopus-indexed-a-journal-with-a-fake-editorial-board-and-a-sham-archive/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/18/retraction-watch-scopus-indexed-a-journal-with-a-fake-editorial-board-and-a-sham-archive/</a></p>
edp sciences<p>Journal News | Emergent Scientist indexed in Scopus! </p><p>🎉 Emergent Scientist is now indexed in Scopus — a major milestone for this <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> journal dedicated to student-led research in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. </p><p>Find out more ➡️ <a href="https://bit.ly/43fRmmN" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/43fRmmN</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Submit your work ➡️ <a href="https://emergent-scientist.edp-open.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">emergent-scientist.edp-open.or</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EmergentScientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmergentScientist</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a></p>
IHC<p>✍️ Práticas da História: Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past has a permanent call for papers. It is an <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> jounal indexed in <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a>. It accepts proposals for articles, bibliographical essays, interviews, critical reviews, issues and thematic dossiers. The texts must be unpublished and can be written in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://praticasdahistoria.pt/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">praticasdahistoria.pt/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/CFP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CFP</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TheoryOfHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheoryOfHistory</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Historiography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Historiography</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/UsesOfThePast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UsesOfThePast</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Methodology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Methodology</span></a></p>
In the Dark<p><strong>ResearchFish Again</strong></p><p>One of the things I definitely don’t miss about working in the UK university system is the dreaded&nbsp;<em>Researchfish</em>. If you’ve never heard of this bit of software, it’s intended to collect data relating to the outputs of research grants funded by the various Research Councils. That’s not an unreasonable thing to want to do, of course, but the interface is – or at least&nbsp;<em>was</em>&nbsp;when I last used it several years ago – extremely clunky and user-unfriendly. That meant that, once a year, along with other academics with research grants (in my case from STFC) I had to waste hours uploading bibliometric and other data by hand. A sensible system would have harvested this automatically as it is mostly available online at various locations or allowed users simply to upload their own publication list as a file; most of us keep an up-to-date list of publications for various reasons (including vanity!) anyway. Institutions also keep track of all this stuff independently. All this duplication seemed utterly pointless.</p><p>I always wondered what happened to the information I uploaded every year, which seemed to disappear without trace into the bowels of RCUK. I assume it was used for something, but mere researchers were never told to what purpose. I guess it was used to assess the performance of researchers in some way.</p><p>When I left the UK in 2018 to work full-time in Ireland, I took great pleasure in ignoring the multiple emails demanding that I do yet another&nbsp;<em>Researchfish</em>&nbsp;upload. The automated reminders turned into individual emails threatening that I would never again be eligible for funding if I didn’t do it, to which I eventually replied that I wouldn’t be applying for UK research grants anymore anyway. So there. Eventually the emails stopped.</p><p>Then, about three years ago, ResearchFish went from being merely pointless to downright sinister as a scandal erupted about the company that operates it (called Infotech), involving the abuse of data and the bullying of academics. I wrote about this <a href="https://telescoper.blog/2022/04/19/the-researchfish-scandal/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>. It <a href="https://telescoper.blog/2022/05/19/the-researchfish-saga-continues/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">then transpired</a> that UKRI, the umbrella organization governing the UK’s research council had been actively conniving with Infotech to target critics. An inquiry was promised but I don’t know what became of that.</p><p>Anyway, all that was a while ago and I neither longer live nor work in the UK so why mention ResearchFish again, now?</p><p>The reason is something that shocked me when I found out about it a few days ago. <a href="https://researchfish.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Researchfish</a> is now operated by commercial publishing house <em>Elsevi</em>er.</p><p>Words fail. I can’t be the only person to see a gigantic conflict of interest. How can a government agency allow the assessment of its research outputs to be outsourced to a company that profits hugely by the publication of those outputs? There’s a phrase in British English which I think is in fairly common usage: <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marking_your_own_homework" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">marking your own homework</a></em>. This relates to individuals or organizations who have been given the responsibility for regulating their own products. Is very apt here.</p><p>The acquisition of Researchfish isn’t the only example of Elsevier getting its talons stuck into academia life. Elsevier also “runs” the bibliometric service <a href="https://www.scopus.com/home.uri" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Scopus</a> which it markets as a sort of quality indicator for academic articles. I put “runs” in inverted commas because Scopus is hopelessly inaccurate and unreliable. I can certainly speak from experience on that. Nevertheless, Elsevier has managed to dupe research managers – clearly not the brightest people in the world – into thinking that Scopus is a quality product. I suppose the more you pay for something the less inclined you are to doubt its worth, because if you do find you have paid worthless junk you look like an idiot.</p><p>A few days ago I posted a piece that include this excerpt from an <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">article in Wired</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Every industry has certain problems universally acknowledged as broken: insurance in health care, licensing in music, standardized testing in education, tipping in the restaurant business. In academia, it’s publishing. Academic publishing is dominated by for-profit giants like Elsevier and Springer. Calling their practice a form of thuggery isn’t so much an insult as an economic observation.&nbsp;</p></blockquote><p>With the steady encroachment of the likes of Elsevier into research assessment, it is clear that as well as raking in huge profits, the thugs are now also assuming the role of the police. The academic publishing industry is a monstrous juggernaut that is doing untold damage to research and is set to do more. It has to stop.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/bibliometrics/" target="_blank">#bibliometrics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/elsevier/" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/infotech/" target="_blank">#Infotech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/research-assessment/" target="_blank">#ResearchAssessment</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/researchfish/" target="_blank">#Researchfish</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/scopus/" target="_blank">#SCOPUS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/ukri/" target="_blank">#UKRI</a></p>
François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺<p>📢 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scientometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scientometric</span></a> indicators in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> evaluation and research <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>misconduct</span></a>: analysis of the Russian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> excellence initiative</p><p>👉 "The results showed that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RUEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RUEI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> had a significantly higher number of retracted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publications</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WoS</span></a> - and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> -indexed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journals</span></a>, suggesting that pressure to meet quantitative scientometric <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indicators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indicators</span></a> may have encouraged unethical research practices and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/researchmisconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>researchmisconduct</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05269-3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s11192-025-05269-3</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retractions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/researchintegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>researchintegrity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p>
Serhii Nazarovets<p>New <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>preprint</span></a> 📢 - Can <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> compete with <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> in bibliometric analysis?</p><p>👉 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18427" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2502.18427</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OpenAlex</span></a></span> has broader coverage and shows higher correlation with certain expert assessments.</p><p>At the same time, it has issues with metadata completeness and document classification.</p><p>❗ Most intriguingly: it turns out that raw <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/citation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citation</span></a> counts perform just as well, and in some cases even better, than normalized indicators, which have long been considered the standard in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/scientometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientometrics</span></a>.</p>
Serhii Nazarovets<p>Finally, our paper has an official issue number and page range! Our study Ukrainian Arts &amp; Humanities Research in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> is now officially published in Library Hi Tech!</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-05-2023-0180" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1108/LHT-05-2023-01</span><span class="invisible">80</span></a></p><p>Key findings:<br>📈 Ukrainian A&amp;H research is growing but struggles with impact<br>📉 Over half of publications remain uncited<br>🌍 International collaboration &amp; English boost visibility<br>📰 Many papers appear in local or Russian-oriented journals</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bibliometrics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UkrainianResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UkrainianResearch</span></a></p>
Ludo Waltman<p>Earlier this week an opinion piece authored by me and a number of great colleagues was published on the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@upstream" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>upstream</span></a></span> blog. Our piece introduces criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases <a href="https://doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p>We express our deep concerns about the treatment of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@eLife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eLife</span></a></span> by the <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> and <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> databases. We see this as an example of databases hindering rather than supporting innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.cwts.nl/@cwts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cwts</span></a></span></p>
Ludo Waltman<p>Good news at <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/CNRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CNRS</span></a> Open Science Day:</p><p>"CNRS's cancellation of <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> subscription will help support its full transition to open, non-commercial model, a point reiterated by Antoine Petit ... 'We will eventually need to stop using commercial databases for bibliometrics and bibliography'. In the meantime CNRS has maintained subscription to Clarivate's <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> database while free bibliographic databases are being developed like open access not-for-profit solution <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OpenAlex</span></a></span>."</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@BarcelonaDORI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BarcelonaDORI</span></a></span></p>
Christian Boulanger<p>The <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bibliometrics</span></a> databases <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> "are not global databases of knowledge" but lead to a decrease of epistemic diversity. A call for "a more globally representative, non-profit, community-controlled infrastructure for the global pool of research knowledge" <a href="https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qhvgr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qhvgr</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
(((@amarois)))<p>[Veille] "A study of nearly 400,000 scientists across 38 countries finds that one-third of them quit science within five years of authoring their first paper, and almost half leave within a decade."<br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/scientometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientometrics</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scopus</span></a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03222-7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-024</span><span class="invisible">-03222-7</span></a></p>
edp sciences<p>🎉Great news! EPJ Web of Conferences has been indexed in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> ! <br>This achievement reflects the high standards of quality and impact of our publications. <br>Find out more➡️ <a href="https://buff.ly/3Nb8v9G" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3Nb8v9G</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPJWebOfConferences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPJWebOfConferences</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceMastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ScienceScholar</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@academia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicsunite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicsunite</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/phdlife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>phdlife</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/phdstudents" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>phdstudents</span></a></span></p>
petersuber<p>Update. More on the incompleteness of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WOS</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> in covering <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> journals, and the comparative comprehensiveness of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OpenAlex</span></a></span>).<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01120" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2409.01120</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Stefan Zitz<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@MartinVuilleme" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MartinVuilleme</span></a></span> I guess it is the latter. In the message he/she talks about <a href="https://julialang.social/tags/scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scopus</span></a> and the need to increase his/her H-index by one.</p>
v_i_o_l_a<p>"<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> is broken – just look at its literature category" @ Retraction Watch: <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2024/07/17/scopus-is-broken-just-look-at-its-literature-category/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retractionwatch.com/2024/07/17</span><span class="invisible">/scopus-is-broken-just-look-at-its-literature-category/</span></a></p>
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