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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · 8d

Apologies for a small mistake: The seminar takes place on 2-3 pm (CEST)

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 12d

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref

Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · 12d

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

Address Information in OpenAlex, Web of Science, and Scopus: First Insights

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · 12d

We continue our series on science maps in October with an Open Research Seminar by our KB colleague Dr. Robin Haunschild who will give a talk on "Global science overlay maps using OpenAlex". October 8, 3–4 p.m. CET. Register here: tinyurl.com/2wb9556e

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung @wisstechdgs.bsky.social · 29d

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)

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Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung @wisstechdgs.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Publisher normalization for OpenAlex data

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · Sep 4

Oops, I got a bit carried away there and forgot to include the link to our analysis and dataset 🙈

doi.org/10.59350/sch...

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 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...

GAIDeT: a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing

Transparency of AI use in academia matters for authors, editors, reviewers, readers and repository moderators. This blog post introduces GAIDeT, a taxonomy for the structured disclosure of Generative ...

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

Abstract. Academic data infrastructures facilitate bibliometric research and reporting, as they link bibliometric data with research interests. In Germany, the Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie (KB), a n...

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · Aug 23

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.

The Data Infrastructure of the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie: An Enabling Intermediary between Raw Data and Analysis

Abstract. Academic data infrastructures facilitate bibliometric research and reporting, as they link bibliometric data with research interests. In Germany, the Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie (KB), a n...

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Alexander Schniedermann @aschniedermann.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣 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.

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

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Najko Jahn @najko.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

Comparison of hybrid journal indexing by data source, 2019–2023. Only hybrid journals present in the cOAlition S Transformative Agreement Data dump with at least one open access article are considered. A presents the number of journals, B the number of articles (DOI), distinguishing between shared DOI corpus and surplus in hoaddata. Box plots C shows the 5-years journal article volume (log scale). Note that intersections sets with at least 30 journals are shown

Development of open access in hybrid journals in transformative agreements by data source and author role, 2019–2023. Figure shows the open access percentage (A), the number (B) and the percentage (C) of open access articles enabled by transformative agreements.

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Christian Boulanger @cmboulanger.bsky.social · Aug 6

#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.

Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg @vukoabrandenburg.bsky.social · Jul 16

Neu in unserem Blog: #OpenAccess Takeaways: Offene Zitationsdaten für die #Rechtswissenschaft.

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OA-Takeaways: Offene Zitationsdaten für die Rechtswissenschaft - Open Access Brandenburg

Open Access Takeaway zu Christian Boulanger, Daniel Fejzo, Christine Rimmert (2025): Law Doesn't Count? Measuring Bibliometric Coverage of German Law Journals

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Helmholtz Open Science Office @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 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

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · Aug 6

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...

Estimating transformative agreement impact on hybrid open access: a comparative large-scale study using Scopus, Web of Science and open metadata - Scientometrics

This study compares open metadata from hoaddata, an openly available dataset based on Crossref, OpenAlex and the cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool, with proprietary bibliometric databases Scopus and We...

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Heinz Pampel @pampel.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

Berlin – Stadt des offenen Wissens für Wissenschaft, Verwaltung, Zivilgesellschaft, Kultur

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Alexander Schniedermann @aschniedermann.bsky.social · Jul 29

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.

Alexander Schniedermann @aschniedermann.bsky.social · Jul 28

I love #bibliometrics.

Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.

You can literally see how data demystifies academia!

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Lutz Bornmann @lutzb.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research - The Scholarly Kitchen

Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on inn...

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CMS @cmshu.bsky.social · Jul 15

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...

Forschungsdateninfrastruktur: Erkenntnisse aus der Trendumfrage

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