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Abdelghani Maddi

@amaddi.bsky.social
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Research Engineer at @gemass-socio.bsky.social (CNRS | Sorbonne University). Scientometrics, Research evaluation, Open Science, and Research integrity. Views are my own. www.gemass.fr/member/maddi-abdelgha…

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 21/09/2026
Open Access Adviser role in the Open Research team at Cambridge @theul.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/open-ac...
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Open Access Adviser
Ever wanted to work in an institution that is home to one of the world's great collections of cultural treasures and research materials? Spanning thousands of years of human thought and discovery, Cam...
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 21/08/2026
"We estimate that $15.08 billion (in 2025 USD) was spent globally on APCs between 2019 and 2025. Adjusted for inflation, annual spending quadrupled from $0.9 billion in 2019 to $3.7 billion in 2025, with >85% concentrated among a few large publishers."
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Estimating global article processing charges paid to 14 publishers for open access between 2019 and 2025
This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to 14 publishers for open access (OA) between 2019 and 2025. APCs are charged for publishing in fully ...
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Charleston Hub @chashub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Without a common reference point, today’s dynamic open science landscape is vulnerable to duplicated efforts, fragmented knowledge, and missed opportunities. The COSMI Hub invites collaboration to help make it visible. ✍️ Abdelghani Maddi, Isabelle Dorsch and Marc-André Simard, Katina Magazine:
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The Open Science Landscape Is Increasingly Difficult to Grasp. That’s a Problem.
Without a shared map or common reference point, today’s dense and dynamic open science landscape is vulnerable to duplicated efforts, fragmented knowledge, and missed opportunities. This dashboard inv...
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Emilien Schultz @emilienschultz.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
Update: article #ActiveTigger JADT2026 sur HAL hal.science/hal-05685813 On se voit à la rentrée pour plus de sciences sociales computationnelles ! (tutoriaux filmés par @emmabonutti.bsky.social @anninac.bsky.social et @eollion.bsky.social et une meilleure intégration du génératif 👏 Maintenant go 🚲
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Making sure you're not a bot!
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Open science is growing rapidly, but without a shared map, we risk duplicated efforts, fragmented knowledge, and missed opportunities for collaboration. We discuss why the OS community needs shared, community-driven observatories, and introduce the COSMI Hub. 🔗 katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
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The Open Science Landscape Is Increasingly Difficult to Grasp. That’s a Problem.
Without a shared map or common reference point, today’s dense and dynamic open science landscape is vulnerable to duplicated efforts, fragmented knowledge, and missed opportunities. This dashboard inv...
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Youna Couëron @younacoueron.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
📑 #OpenIt meeting last Thursday @c-bz.bsky.social, J. Le Marquer and Z. Sinsou shared their progress on WP3 with the team ( @amaddi.bsky.social, @idorsch.bsky.social C. Arènes and A. Frénod): journal flipping: why journals shift to OA, how, and with what impact. 👉 www.gemass.fr/contract/ope...
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OPENIT - Ouvrir les Publications pour une Edition Nouvelle, Inclusive et Transparente (ANR-24-RESO-0001) - GEMASS
Projet lauréat de l'appel RESO de l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) sur les pratiques de la science ouverte
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
SCOOP: Sci-Hub, the largest illegal database of scientific papers, has released a new AI chatbot. Is it any good? My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @casey.greenelab.com, @amaddi.bsky.social
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Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS) @grios-openscience.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
GRIOS has established its Academic Advisory Board: 11 leading scholars from 9 countries across Europe, Africa & the Americas, with expertise in #metascience, #reproducibility, #ResearchPolicy & #ScholComm and strong interest in evidence-based #OpenScience policies 🔗 www.grios.org/global-resea...
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Global Research Initiative on Open Science establishes its Academic Advisory Board
GRIOS, the Global Research Initiative on Open Science, is pleased to announce the establishment of its Academic Advisory Board (AAB), following a highly competitive selection process. The newly appoin...
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Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS) @grios-openscience.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A warm welcome to all AAB members! Thrilled to have you on board! @amaddi.bsky.social, Amanda Blatch-Jones, Eduarda Centeno, Emmanuel Boakye, @emckiernan.bsky.social, Julia Priess Buchheit, @natalieharrower.bsky.social, Nchangwi Munung, Neil Jacobs, Timothy Errington 👉 www.grios.org/academic-adv...
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Academic Advisory Board
The Academic Advisory Board (AAB) is an integral part of GRIOS governance. Its main role is to advise the Steering Committee on academic matters and ensure the academic rigour and quality of the work ...
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Nicolas Fressengeas @fresseng.universites.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025
Webinaire « L’intégrité scientifique au défi des nouvelles pratiques éditoriales », proposé par Couperin et @univlorraine.bsky.social Ouvert à toutes et tous, en ligne, ce sera le 12 février 2026, de 14h à 17h. Inscription gratuite, mais nécessaire […]
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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 11/11/2025
So stimulating & such a pleasure to work w/ these geniuses. Took only 11 versions to get us all aligned and agree on one call to action to stop the drain. What we all agreed on right away: this push needs to happen via strong funder and institutional policies w/out for-profit publisher interference
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José Luis Ortega @joseluisortega.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Today, I presented retractbase.csic.es, our open database about retractions, in Bristol STI-ENID Conference. @stienid2025.bsky.social with a very good reception
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚀 Exciting news for the #OpenScience community! 🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness. 💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ... #STIENID25
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Open Science Initiatives Tracker
This dashboard provides a dynamic and community-driven overview of Open Science initiatives around the world.
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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
👇 MetaROR is very proud and excited to announce this new partnership with @plosbiology.org 🙏 As part of this, "PLOS Biology will formally consider meta-research articles that are peer-reviewed on the MetaROR platform", in order to "improve transparency" and "[prevent] futile cycles of peer review".
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Emilien Schultz @emilienschultz.eurosky.social · 13/08/2025
[Petit thread] article sur la confiance dans la science à travers le monde 🌎 🥼🔬🔭 Je n’avais pas vu passer cette publication de début d’année du TISP Many Labs project  qui est ma foi forte bien faite www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/N
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Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.
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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 12/08/2025
Metascience 2025 recordings are now available! #Metascience25 gathered researchers, funders, policymakers & more to explore how the research process can improve. The program included preconference symposia & plenary sessions on topics from policy change to AI in research. 🎥 cassyni.com/s/metasc...
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Cassyni | Science starts with a seminar
Seamlessly organise, run and publish academic research seminars. Get started in minutes.
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Michel Dubois @ejsmdubois.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Un grand merci à @charlesbehr.bsky.social @universcience.bsky.social pour cette occasion de revenir sur la situation des sciences aux Etats-Unis : « Trump contre la science : un séisme mondial ? » leblob.fr/videos/trump...
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Trump contre la science : un séisme mondial ? Décryptage par le sociologue Michel Dubois | Le blob, l'extra-média
Depuis son investiture à la présidence des États-Unis, Donald Trump multiplie les mesures à l’encontre de la science. Face à la défiance de ce gouvernement, la confiance du public envers les sciences ...
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 25/07/2025
Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it
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Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it
An early-career researcher who discovered a nearly identical version of her manuscript published by the researcher who reviewed — and recommended rejecting — the work for another journal is still a…
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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....
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Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals
Abstract. Although the organisational aspects of scholarly journals—such as the types of organisations responsible for publishing individual journals, whether independently or in collaboration—have si...
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Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes @bslancho.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🚨 Save the Date! Join the free, hybrid #LISBibliometrics Conference 2025 📅 26 Nov 2025 | Leicester & Online Theme: Bibliometrics in Action—practical tools & skills for research evaluation! 🔗 Register: lisbibliometrics.wordpress.com/c-2025-regis...
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Registration 2025
Registration is free and open to all! Simply fill out the following registration form. Get ready to explore the exciting world of bibliometrics with us! Registration Form We collect and use your pe…
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Simon van Bellen @simonvbellen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A new view of the state of the scholarly publishing oligopoly: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Considering journals and papers published, big publishers have been losing ground, as many independent journals have been created, especially since 2000. With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
📢 New publication out! 🇨🇳 China’s Open Science strategy relies heavily on supply-side tools (63%)—infra, education, public services—while incentives & mandates remain marginal. 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/13... #OpenScience #China #SciPolicy
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LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg @lisdata.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🚨 Major release alert We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦 🧵 1/12
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Consultation nationale : les Français montrent leur intérêt pour les sciences" www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
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Mikael Laakso @mikaellaakso.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Janne Pölönen @jpolonen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🆕 Preprint! "Open Science, Open Innovation?" Patents cite open access science more often — especially with Sci-Hub access. Europe & Oceania lead in using science, Americas lag behind. 📖 Open Science = key to global, equitable innovation. 👉 hal.science/hal-05073197 #OpenScience #Patents
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Open Science, Open Innovation? The Role of Open Access in Patenting Activity
Scientific knowledge is a key driver of technological innovation, shaping industrial development and policy decisions worldwide. Understanding how patents incorporate scientific research is essential ...
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Marianne Noël @mnoel75.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We need more studies like this👍 thank you Sam
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies
Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.
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Michel Dubois @ejsmdubois.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🎓 Call for Applications: @cea.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr @gemass-socio.bsky.social are recruiting a PhD candidate for a 3-year funded position in the field of Science & Technology Studies.🔬 Topic: Promises and social life of reactive nitrogen 📅 Deadline: May 19, 2025 www.gemass.fr/18-avril-202...
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18 avril 2025. Appel à candidatures thèse CEA (DRF - Joliot) - Sorbonne Université (GEMASS) : Promesses scientifiques et circulation sociale d’une « molécule de l’année » : le cas de l’Azote Réactif -...
Situé dans le domaine des études sociales des sciences, ce projet de thèse est co-encadré par Jérôme SANTOLINI (CEA), Michel DUBOIS (CNRS) et Catherine GUASPARE (CNRS)
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📄 "Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract?" by Memon, West & O'Connor "highly cited papers show more significant reductions in citation after retraction and garner more attention to their retractions as they occur." arxiv.org/abs/2504.15504 #Research_Integrity #Retraction
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Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract?
Failures of retraction are common in science. Why do these failures occur? And, relatedly, what makes findings harder or easier to retract? We use data from Microsoft Academic Graph, Retraction Watch,...
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Michel Dubois @ejsmdubois.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🔎 Over 100 NSF grant cancellations now compiled in a public database by @noamross.net and @scott-delaney.bsky.social very useful database for monitoring the type of political interference currently at work in the US #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024. At the same time, the number of US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Choose France for Science : anr.fr/fr/actualite...
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Choose France for Science : lancement de la plateforme dédiée aux candidatures d’accueil de chercheurs internationaux
Alors que le contexte international crée aujourd’hui les conditions d’une vague de mobilité sans précédent parmi les chercheurs à travers le monde, la France entend se positionner comme un lieu d’accu...
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🇨🇳 #China is the world’s top research publisher — but how does it shape #OpenScience? Our new preprint reveals a centralized, infrastructure-first strategy 🏗️, with little room for incentives 💸 or participation 🤝. Full paper 👉 www.preprints.org/manuscript/2... @gemass-socio.bsky.social
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Ouvrir la science @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Candidatez pour le prix #scienceouverte 2025 de la thèse jusqu'au 23 juin 2025 à midi ! www.ouvrirlascience.fr/les-candidat... #doctorant #openscience #phd
Annonce de la candidature du prix science ouverte 2025 de la thèse
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! We explore the geographical & disciplinary coverage of #OpenAccess journals across #OpenAlex, #Scopus & #WoS. 📊 Key takeaway: OpenAlex offers broader OA coverage — but global imbalances persist. 👉 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #OpenAccess
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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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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 02/04/2025
Do men or women retract more? A study found the answer is … complicated
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Do men or women retract more? A study found the answer is … complicated
A new study compares retraction rates between men and women. Pexels Longtime Retraction Watch readers know the scientists on our Leaderboard have changed over the years. But one characteristic has …
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"Do men or women retract more? A study found the answer is … complicated" retractionwatch.com/2025/04/02/m... @gemass-socio.bsky.social
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Do men or women retract more? A study found the answer is … complicated
A new study compares retraction rates between men and women. Pexels Longtime Retraction Watch readers know the scientists on our Leaderboard have changed over the years. But one characteristic has …
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
📢 #Postdoc – Étude des revues en transition vers ou depuis des modèles d’OA Objet : Analyse des facteurs influençant les décisions des revues à adopter ou abandonner l’OA Pour plus d’informations, merci de consulter la fiche de poste : lnkd.in/eP_P9mey @gemass-socio.bsky.social @c-bz.bsky.social
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
💥 New: Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements 👩‍💻 @theblochian.bsky.social @ojcollective.bsky.social #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #ScholComm
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Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements - Impact of Social Sciences
Caroline Edwards argues transformative agreements are unaffordable and introduces the Open Journals Collective as a model for scaling open access.
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Does sharing first authorship on a paper carry a penalty? What the research says" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Does sharing first authorship on a paper carry a penalty? What the research says
Study dispels myth that order of names in a paper’s author list dictates perception of success.
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement
Large language models are being used to check papers, but researchers warn they come with risks.
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Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏 @tomk.eurosky.social · 20/03/2025
Nice analysis of papermill data by @clearskiesadam.bsky.social clearskiesadam.medium.com/oversight-in...
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Oversight: integrity metrics for journals
Oversight, by Clear Skies, is the first complete index of journal integrity. Oversight takes complex data on research integrity and enables…
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LaLIST | CNRS-INIST @inistlalist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Webinar – 8th Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice (video)
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Webinar – 8th Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in practice (video)
« This webinar was organised to help project coordinators, researchers and research support staff on the European Commission’s requirements for Open Science. Requirements for Open Access to s…
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"Mapping nine decades of research integrity studies (1935–2024): A scientometric analysis" doi.org/10.1080/0898...
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Mapping nine decades of research integrity studies (1935–2024): A scientometric analysis
Research integrity is fundamental to responsible research practice. Despite attention, the intellectual structure and evolution of this field remains underexplored. This study maps the knowledge la...
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Abdelghani Maddi @amaddi.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
🔎 Can a paper really cite itself? It sounds absurd, but a new study shows that self-citations within the same paper actually exist in the Web of Science database! 📄🔄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324
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Paper self-citation: An unexplored phenomenon
In this study, we investigated a phenomenon that one intuitively would assume does not exist: self-citations on the paper basis. Actually, papers citing themselves do exist in the Web of Science (WoS)...
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
👀ICYMI: "Readers should know immediately if they are consulting content that is identical to the published (and possibly retracted) version" @freddie2310.bsky.social on open repositories and retracted research. #ScholComm #ResearchEthics
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Open repositories cannot ignore retractions and corrections - Impact of Social Sciences
Repositories for academic papers often do not reflect retractions and corrections to published papers, can this be resolved?
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OpenAIRE @openaire.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Discover the new @openairegraph.bsky.social #API! Join our webinar to explore its powerful new features for #bibliometric analysis, research discovery, and #OpenScience monitoring. Register now! tinyurl.com/45zenwr
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Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New study: "In the first three years after accusations became public, scholars accused of sexual misconduct incur a larger citation penalty than scholars accused of scientific misconduct…[But scholars predicted] the reverse pattern." doi.org/10.1371/jour... #ScholComm
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Citation penalties following sexual versus scientific misconduct allegations
Background and aim Citations in academia have long been regarded as a fundamental means of acknowledging the contribution of past work and promoting scientific advancement. The aim of this paper was t...
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