Research assessment and scholarly publishing play interconnected roles in shaping research culture, incentives, and norms that ultimately determine what knowledge is produced, communicated, trusted, a...

How can we foster a collaborative, fair, and healthy research culture that enables researchers and research communities to do their best work? This question lies at the heart of the new strategy of th...

Focusing on journal publishing as one key dimension of research culture, this blogpost compares Spain and Lithuania to show how infrastructures shape whether uncertainty in publication and recognition...

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Citation counts have a prominent role in bibliometrics, but do they really represent all citations of a document? Paul Donner shows the different ways in which citation counts can vary and proposes a ...

CWTS has developed a Scholarly Communication Policy that treats publishing as a collective responsibility rather than an individual choice. In this blog post, we introduce the policy, reflect on its c...

Caroline S. Wagner (1955-2026) was a highly regarded scholar in the field of science and technology policy. Paul Wouters reflects on her impressive contributions to research on science policy, the glo...

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As research culture increasingly becomes an object of governance, it also raises important conceptual questions. Based on a pitch at the Research Cultures in Transition Roundtable (STS NL 2026, Univer...

The role of funders and research institutions in 21st-century science

A bad reputation and cultural ignorance are probably responsible

Dependency theory explains how resources systematically flow from the “periphery

Different types of national assessment systems face different threat levels

Considering that 66% of PhD graduates that earn their degree from Dutch institutions work outside academia, a more flexible PhD trajectory that recognizes the full scope of doctoral work and equip can...

Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Citizen Science and Public Trust in Science

How can we foster diverse and inclusive knowledge systems that genuinely engage with societal needs and challenges? This question lies at the heart of the new strategy of the CWTS Focal Area Engagemen...

CWTS and OpenAIRE are delighted to announce the next steps we have agreed to take to deepen our relationship and strengthen our collaboration.

Researchers from Leiden University and Solid Sustainability Research have published a new study in PLOS Climate on the links between Dutch universities and the tobacco industry. Through this work, the...

Scientific collaboration across disciplines resembles a mosaic, with each piece contributing to a composition more coherent than any fragment on its own. This diversity is widely seen as necessary for...

Dutch universities need to quickly establish standards or guidelines for the responsible use of generative AI in research. Currently, individual researchers carry too much responsibility. What do inte...

Samenwerking tussen onderzoek en de creatieve en culturele sector heeft een belangrijke meerwaarde om maatschappelijke vraagstukken verder te brengen.

We are pleased to announce that Christine Borgman (University of California, Los Angeles) and Paul Groth (University of Amsterdam) will give a talk about their recent paper in the Harvard Data Science...

Sustaining open data infrastructures over time is a complex puzzle, involving dynamic funding models and relationships with customers, collaborators, and competitors. Despite their importance, these m...

Two research assessment frameworks in the Netherlands are moving towards open research information indicators in line with the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information