Ukraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.

FAQ MITGLIEDSCHAFT Vorteile Berechtigung und Kosten Steps Was sind die Vorteile der KB-Dateninfrastruktur? Die KB informiert Nutzer/Mitglieder transparent über die Datenqualität und ermögli...

OpenAlex has recently emerged as a leading alternative to proprietary bibliometric sources. However, concerns remain regarding the quality of its metadata, especially the institutional profiles which ...

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Global scholarly information systems provide poor coverage for social science and humanities research taking place outside of the anglophone world and in languages other than English. Paul Donner, Ste...

Tangled Terms: How We Talk About Transformative Agreements

Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires a robust, genuinely open research infrastructure.

This blog post examines the decrease in affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex. An analysis of over 13 million articles published by major commercial publishers between 2018 and 2025 suggests that ...

In RPN interview, Ian Chapman heralds specialisation drive for UK universities via “continuity and commitment”

In the second lecture of the series organized by the research group “Reorganization of Knowledge Practices,” Kean Birch (York University, Toronto) takes up a question inspired by Langdon Winner: Do ar...

Sheena F. Bartscherer (RMZ, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Sven Ulpts (Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark), Bart Penders (School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Netherlands), Sarahanne Field (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands)

An invitation to embrace pluralism and diversity in scholarly communication models -- rather than attempting to impose a single solution.

Abstract. This article revisits the early history of Soviet scientometrics, examining the role of Zinaida Mulchenko in writing Naukometriya – the foundational book in this field. While Vasily V. Nalim...

Academic freedom is a widely discussed concept recognized as a key element of the academic system. While the intrinsic value of academic freedom is wi…

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...

by Stefanie Haustein, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Flavia Camargo, Lisa Matthias, Lucía Céspedes, Constance Poitras & Dorothea Strecker On April 30 2025, the US National Institutes of Heal…

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 ...

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...

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...