This study compares Scopus and OpenAlex for measuring international researcher mobility at global, country, corridor, and individual levels. OpenAlex detects approximately 2.5 times more mobile resear...

Nature - Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption

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 ...

Read the latest article version by Andrey Lovakov, Clemens Blümel, Stephan Stahlschmidt, at F1000Research.

When 100 social and behavioural science claims were examined, 34% of reanalyses closely matched the original results, with 74% reaching the same conclusion, revealing limited robustness of single...

Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

Move comes amid effort to grow the country’s own journals

Abstract. We investigate whether migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics using nationally representative data from the 2018 German Microcensus. The d...

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

This paper introduces a document type classifier with the purpose to optimise the distinction between research and non-research journal publications in OpenAlex. Based on open metadata, the classifier...

The University of Vienna invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies.

This article examines how internationally educated health professionals contribute to health system change on return to their countries of origin. Rather than treating return as reintegration or sk...

Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. In contrast...

We asked academics from the economics, political science, psychology, and sociology departments of the top 500 universities to state their top 3 publi…

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 ...

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...