The Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie with currently more than 25 member organisations is the leading infrastructure in the development and application of bibliometric analysis tools in Germany.
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New preprint by KB's Andrey Lovakov comparing Scopus' and OAL's coverage of German institutions: arxiv.org/abs/2605.01337
Registration for the European Summer School for Scientometrics (esss), taking place from August 31 to September 4, 2026 in Leuven is now open. Register here: esss.info/registration/. You can find the preliminary program here: esss.info/programme/. The number of participants is limited to 50.
Open Research Seminar
Emanuel Kulczycki, our new Head of Department 'Research System and Science Dynamics' at DZHW and Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, will give a talk on: 'Collective Scientometrics: Why We Need a New Way to Measure Science' on 29th April, 2-3pm.
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In a post on the blog "LSE Impact" (tinyurl.com/4h6k43pb), the KB's Paul Donner and Stephan Stahlschmidt, together with colleages from Moldovia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia envision a federated “network of networks” which features verified, context-rich national data.
Werden Sie KB-Mitglied! Alle öffentlich finanzierten Forschungseinrichtungen in Deutschland sind berechtigt, Mitgliedschaft umfasst Zugang zu den von KB QS-gesicherten Datenbanken OpenAlex und Scopus. Forschungsprojekte mit bis zu 2 Nutzern haben über KB freien Zugang zu Scopus. tinyurl.com/4snmn5ek
Just published in College & Research Libraries News! 🎉 “Tangled Terms: How We Talk About Transformative Agreements”: doi.org/10.5860/crln.... We argue for more caution with the language used when talking about the "value" of TAs.
Late but still trying to watch part of the dissertation defense by @aschniedermann.bsky.social a former colleague at @bibliometrie-info.bsky.social ...
Very articulated answers to pretty sharp questions, well done Alex (so far, I had to disconnect to attend another meeting)...
"We are seeing readily available data assets, such as... the UK Biobank, NHANES, and many other databases, being weaponized to generate manuscripts with minimal scholarly value and utility"
Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability!
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"Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5
"A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers [Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence, or #SCORE] has ended with a disturbing […]
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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 ...
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...
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...
Improvements to methods should lead to more robust evidence and more rapid advances in knowledge. In their Perspective, Marcus Munafò & @mendelrandom.bsky.social look at why this hasn't been the case and what can be done about it #AcademicSky 🧪
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Methodological improvements should, in theory, mean more robust evidence and inference, and more rapid advances in knowledge. However, these methods are often subsequently used in the pursuit of…
