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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 2h

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.
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Geographical and disciplinary coverage of open access journals: OpenAlex, Scopus, and WoS

This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the Web of Science (WoS). We used the Directory of Open Access Scholarly R...

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · 2d

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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Bas Hofstra @bashofstra.bsky.social · 6d

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

Knowledge lost, parity gained? COVID-19 and gender gaps in Dutch academia - Scientometrics

We investigated the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted long-standing gender inequalities in Dutch academia. Dutch academia is an ideal case to gain insight on exacerbated gender differentials due to COVID-19 on employees, because men and women face comparable institutional contexts and any COVID-19 impact becomes visible and measurable fast through potentially decreased yearly publications. We reconstructed the complete publishing careers up till 2022 of more than 8000 Dutch scientists who received a PhD from 1990 onwards and still had an active publication career before the pandemic started. We compared the publication dip between men and women during COVID-19. Our data allowed us to investigate whether the gendered impact of COVID-19 varied across research domains, different PhD cohorts and type of research output. We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men.

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 9d

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

Mark Lutter @marklutter345.bsky.social · Jun 12

We secretly placed small flags on a university campus and monitored what happened over the course of two semsters. The Israeli flag had the highest removal rate; politically motivated removals disproportionately targeted Israeli flags; removal rates were highest in hallways of the humanities, ...

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Mark Lutter @marklutter345.bsky.social · Aug 2

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...

Who talks to the prof? Gender differences in interaction with senior scholars at four academic conferences - Scientometrics

The percentage of women in academia is still lower than what would be expected statistically, especially in the sciences and among faculty (tenured professors). Theories on network closure suggest tha...

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 13d

Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals
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"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"

Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals

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

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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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 20d

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...

Prevalence of predatory journals in OpenAlex

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 21d

"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

How much are LLMs changing the language of academic papers after ChatGPT? A multi-database and full text analysis

This study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) are influencing the language of academic papers by tracking 12 LLM-associated terms across six major scholarly databases (Scopus, Web of Scienc...

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 25d

"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...

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 26d

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/...

Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration: A Longitudinal Analysis of Global Network Evolution

Abstract. Amid a global wave of democratic backsliding, research collaboration across borders has become increasingly fraught. Yet, the international research collaboration (IRC) network continues to ...

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 26d

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

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science

Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting ...

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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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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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Ondrej Zika @ondrejzika.bsky.social · Jul 15

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

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · May 20

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/...

Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research | Royal Society Open Science

Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) have the potential to increase public science literacy and support scientific research, as they can quickly summarize complex sc...

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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · Nov 22

The brand new `legendry` package by @teunbrand.bsky.social takes ggplots2 guides to the next level 🤩

teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl...

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Scholarly Communication @scholarlycommrg.bsky.social · May 10

Next week we will have another seminar discussing academic geopolitics - this time from Kazahstanian perspective!

15th of May, 16:00 CET - see you on Zoom!

Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

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

Join our next KB Open Research Seminar on Tue, May 20, 3–4pm on the German Excellence Initiative. Prof. Heinze, Dr. Habicht & Dr. Tunger present their paper “Field size as a predictor of ‚excellence‘. The selection of subject fields in Germany’s Excellence Initiative”. Register: tinyurl.com/4te94k9r

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · May 5

The KB provides access to curated OpenAlex data on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1530... and Github: tinyurl.com/yc4w9vk4. Curations focus on GER research and comprise the following entities:
- Addresses
- Publishers
- Funding info
- Document types
- Transformative agreements
- Authors (in the future).

OPENBIB: Selected curated open metadata based on OpenAlex

This dataset, compiled by the German Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie, provides access to curated bibliometric data in OpenAlex focussing on the German research landscape. Curated data is provided for ...

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Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our upcoming Open Research Seminars in May, June and July on the German Excellence Initiative, measuring disruption in science and evaluative bibliometrics in the DORA/CoARA context:

bibliometrie.info

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · Mar 29

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · Mar 20

Graphic #rstats reminder that vaccines work 📊
www.databrewer.co/R/gallery/gg...

Heatmaps for eight infections diseases in the US: poilio, mumps, rubbella. hepatitis A, ...
Each one has the US states in rows and year in columns, with a thick black line showing the year that a vaccine against that disease was introduced. Cells are colored by the number of cases of that disease.

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