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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 18d

Ich lasse das mal hier: In den USA müssen ab jetzt alle Presseartikel und TV-Sendungen über das Militär vorher dem Verteidigungs-, ich korrigiere, Kriegsministerium zur Freigabe vorgelegt werden.

Pressefreiheit eingeschränkt - Medienberichte über US-Militär nur noch nach Freigabe durch Pentagon

In den USA hat das Verteidigungsministerium die Pressefreiheit eingeschränkt. Das Pentagon erließ eine Richtlinie, wonach Berichte über das US-Militär nur noch veröffentlicht werden dürfen, wenn sie v...

www.deutschlandfunk.de

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Andreas Kynast @andikynast.bsky.social · 18d

Unfassbar: Das Pentagon ordnet an, dass sich Medien den Inhalt ihrer Berichte künftig genehmigen lassen müssen.

Es ist dasselbe Land, das eins Watergate aufdeckte und Snowdens Enthüllungen veröffentliche.

www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Das US-Pentagon schränkt die Rechte der Presse ein

Das US-Verteidigungsministerium führt neue Regeln für Journalisten ein. Sie müssen sich Berichte vorab genehmigen lassen. Der Washingtoner National Press Club sieht einen „direkten Angriff auf den una...

www.faz.net

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · Jul 17

Last night, we continued a tradition that dates back to 1977 — the famous Kohl and Pinkel party! This year's theme was medieval, filled with knights, dragons and magicians! The night was filled with laughter, legend, and a new Kohl Queen! 🏹⚔️ Read more at: www.fkf.mpg.de/8759364/2025...

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Raphaële Clément as the Director of our new Electrochemical Materials Department!! 🎉🔋 She’s a battery innovator using NMR magic to unlock greener energy. Welcome to the @maxplanck.de, Raphaële! Learn more at: www.fkf.mpg.de/8744352/2025...
📷 Photo credit: UCSB

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Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research @mpifkf.bsky.social · Jul 9

We mourn the passing of Prof. Hans-Joachim Queisser (1931–2025), one of the founding directors of our institute. A pioneer of semiconductor physics and co-creator of the Shockley–Queisser limit, his vision shaped generations. We will remember him with deep gratitude. www.fkf.mpg.de/8744972/2025...

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rhaunschild.bsky.social @rhaunschild.bsky.social · Jun 10

New special issue on "Open Large Language Models for Scientometrics": www.mdpi.com/journal/metr... #scientometrics #bibliometrics We are looking forward to high-quality submissions.

https://mdpi.com/journal/metric…

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

Several #KB partners have collaborated on an analysis of #openalex data quality aspects (here in particular the completeness of references as a fundamental backbone for bibliometric databases), more contributions to follow! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus - Scientometrics

OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it...

link.springer.com

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rhaunschild.bsky.social @rhaunschild.bsky.social · Mar 30

Deadline extension for submissions to the 29th Annual STI-ENID Conference, which will take place in Bristol from 3–5 September 2025: The new deadline for submissions is now Monday, 14 April 2025.

rhaunschild.bsky.social @rhaunschild.bsky.social · Mar 24

The special track on Open Research Information at @stienid2025.bsky.social is open to submissions via the regular conference submission tool.

29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · Dec 4

And we are live!

www.stienid2025.org

Call for Special Sessions and Papers open January 2025.

Spread the news and see you there!

Home | STIENID2025 Bristol

www.stienid2025.org

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Marek Kwiek I Social Stratification in Science @marek-kwiek.bsky.social · Mar 6

"The Max Planck Society (MPG), Germany’s top research organisation, says that the country could benefit from the new US administration’s increasingly restrictive research policies, and is stepping up efforts to recruit elite US scientists and scholars".

www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....

Max Planck Society offers a haven for top US researchers

The Max Planck Society, Germany’s top research organisation, says that the country could benefit from the new United States administration’s incre...

www.universityworldnews.com

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arXiv cs.DL Digital Libraries @csdl-bot.bsky.social · Mar 7

Robin Haunschild, Lutz Bornmann: Paper self-citation: An unexplored phenomenon https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04324 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.04324

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arXiv cs.DL Digital Libraries @csdl-bot.bsky.social · Mar 7

found cases where paper self-citations occur due to publisher-made highlights promoting and citing the paper. We analyzed the self-citing papers according to selected metadata. We observed accumulations of the number of self-citing papers [3/4 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324v1]

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arXiv cs.DL Digital Libraries @csdl-bot.bsky.social · Mar 7

across publication years. We found a skewed distribution across countries, journals, authors, fields, and document types. Finally, we discuss the implications of paper self-citations for bibliometric indicators. [4/4 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324v1]

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Wilfred Mijnhardt @wmijnhardt.bsky.social · Mar 14

How to use assignments of United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) to scientific papers in research evaluation? The proposal of a gold standard combining assignments from different data providers

link.springer.com/co...

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NWB2025 @nwb2025.bsky.social · Mar 13

The 30th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy takes place in Bergen, Norway October 29-31 this year. The Call for Abstracts is now out, and submissions open March 17th. Presentations and posters alike are welcome. Hope to see you there?

Welcome to Bergen in 2025!

Welcome to the 30th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy (NWB 2025). Nordic Institute for Studies of Innovation, Research and Education are hosts together with the University Library o...

www.nifu.no

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Lutz Bornmann @lutzb.bsky.social · Mar 18

We published an update of our excellence mapping at www.excellencemapping.net

Excellence Maps v2

The web application visualizes the impact of papers published in several subject areas on researchers and other status groups.

www.excellencemapping.net

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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · Mar 19

Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? My latest for @retractionwatch.com: retractionwatch.com/2025/03/19/p...

@lutzb.bsky.social, @mollymking.bsky.social

Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves?

While thousands of papers cite themselves, the percentage that do so is relatively low. Haunschild & Bornmann/arXiv.org While using bibliometric techniques to measure how disruptive research pa…

retractionwatch.com

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rhaunschild.bsky.social @rhaunschild.bsky.social · Mar 21

Proposal of a gold standard combining different UN SDG assignments from different data providers: doi.org/10.1007/s111... @lutzb.bsky.social Many thanks to @clarivateag.bsky.social, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, and OSDG.ai for providing SDG assignments.

doi.org

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rhaunschild.bsky.social @rhaunschild.bsky.social · Feb 19

Based on this paper, we have contributed a blog post:
evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/02/19/d...
#bibliometrics #altmetrics #policy

Does public policy and administration research influence governance?

To what extent is academic expertise used in governance processes around the world? Do actors in the policy and public sector draw on research to improve their decision making? Are public administr…

evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk

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Lutz Bornmann @lutzb.bsky.social · Jan 10

The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/evp/aop/article-10.1332-17442648Y2024D000000042/article-10.1332-17442648Y2024D000000042.xml

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Lutz Bornmann @lutzb.bsky.social · Dec 5

How to use OpenAlex data to produce overlay maps journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The use of OpenAlex to produce meaningful bibliometric global overlay maps of science on the individual, institutional, and national levels

The Social Systems Citations Theory (SSCT) is the most recent theory of citations integrating previous theories. It focuses on communications in science that are formally manifested as publications an...

journals.plos.org

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rhaunschild.bsky.social @rhaunschild.bsky.social · Jan 10

Do you want to know how public policy and administration research expertise is used in policymaking? doi.org/10.1332/1744... #scientometrics #altmetrics Many thanks to @overton.io
for providing the policy data for the study with Kate Williams and @lutzb.bsky.social .

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