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Andrey Lovakov

@lovakov.bsky.social

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Researcher at German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW). Quantitative science studies

Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last week I presented at the STI-ENID 2026 in Antwerp on comparing Scopus and OpenAlex for measuring international researcher mobility. The main finding: the choice of database changes not just how much mobility you measure, but who counts as mobile.

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As a flag lover myself, I created a game for people like me. I called it "Fun With Flags" (Sheldon Cooper would be proud). The aim is to guess a country's flag using the fewest possible clues. Try and share your feedback: fun-with-flags.lovakov.workers.dev

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

- OpenAlex generally indexes more publications at the journal level than Scopus, confirming its broader overall coverage. - At the institutional level, however, counts were consistently lower - affiliations are sometimes missing or not correctly linked to institutions.

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is a new preprint on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international researcher mobility. The analysis estimates approximately 14,700 fewer international researcher movements between 2020 and 2022 than expected, corresponding to a global loss of about 3.7%. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

China's unilateral visa-free policies have significantly increased the number of co-authored publications between China and other countries. This effect is achieved by enhancing transportation accessibility and mobility, which facilitates cross-border research collaboration arxiv.org/pdf/2512.12189

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Character overlap between Nalimov's Naukometriya book chapters and Mulchenko’s Ph.D. dissertation chapters

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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 · 14/03/2025

Science has covered the paper in the In Brief section www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

5/ What kind of misconduct did we find? In WoS/Scopus journals: data falsification, fake peer reviews, authorship manipulation. In non-indexed journals: plagiarism and self-plagiarism were more common. The type of misconduct seems to depend on the journal's visibility and standards.

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 1/ We investigated the link between research evaluation systems and research misconduct, focusing on the Russian University Excellence Initiative (RUEI) as an example. Here’s a short thread

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Andrey Lovakov @lovakov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A total of $8.349 billion were spent on APCs between 2019 and 2023. In 2023 MDPI ($681.6 mln), Elsevier ($582.8 mln) and Springer Nature ($546.6 mln) generated the most revenue with APCs. Annual spending almost tripled from $910.3 million in 2019 to $2.538 billion in 2023: arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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