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🌎 Scientific collaboration across disciplines is widely seen as necessary for tackling complex problems, but does it also translate into scientific prestige? In our new blog post, @jcortesanchez.bsky.social explores this question.
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The 2026–2028 strategic plan for the Information & Openness focal area at @cwts.nl is published! Read the blogpost by Kathleen Gregory, Mark Neijssel, and Nees Jan van Eck for an overview of our vision and goals to advance the adoption of open research information in the coming years.
In today's new blog post, Louise Bezuidenhout proposes the development of an #OpenScience Readiness Assessment Framework tool in line with the Dutch Strategy Evaluation Protocol to support research units in the long-term implementation of OS.
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In our latest blog post, Laurens Hessels examines why universities must take an active role in regulating AI use in science and safeguarding research integrity, reliability, and independence.
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Metric-driven research systems tend to persist because governance structures often matter more than metrics themselves.
Our latest blog post by @eleonoradagiene.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Guus Dix & @lariviev.bsky.social tackles this issue through the Lithuanian case 🇱🇹
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In today's new blog post, Lokman Meho introduces RI²: a diagnostic overlay to support more cautious and governance-aware reading of university rankings.
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🌐 In our new blog post, Juan Pablo Bascur introduces the ORION Dashboard: a tool that makes #openresearchdata accessible, interactive, and easy to explore 👩💻.
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🗺️ Adrià Plazas, Nicandro Bovenzi, Nicolau Duran, Enric Fuster and Ismael Rafols offer a new way of visualising the global funding landscape by mapping 82,000 EU research and innovation grants using semantic analysis rather than publication citations.
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The 2026–2028 strategic plan for the Engagement & Inclusion focal area at @cwts.nl is published! Read the blogpost for an overview of their vision and strategic directions to foster inclusive knowledge systems that engage with societal needs and challenges.
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It should have been obvious, but I didn't realise that the best thing about publishing a book would be when someone reads and critically engages with the work and then builds on it. Thanks to the authors!
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...
Today we published the 2026-2028 strategic plan for the Information & Openness focal area. This blogpost provides an overview of the plan, describing our vision and objectives for advancing the uptake...
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...
Developing long-term OS policies and roadmaps can be a daunting task for research units. This blog post proposes to develop an Open Science Readiness Assessment Framework tool, aligned with the Dutch ...
As publication and citation signals face structural distortion, performance metrics require contextual interpretation. This essay introduces RI² as a diagnostic overlay to support more cautious and go...
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The ORION dashboard enables easy exploration of CWTS OpenAlex data on BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL que...
In this blog post, we report a global funding landscape created using semantic relations of all EU R&I Framework Programme grants that helps locate regions, organisations and funders in the disciplina...
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...
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Metric-driven research systems persist because governance structures often matter more than metrics themselves.
🆕 New blog post: @realjoonha.bsky.social and Tanya Lee reflect on the CWTS research seminar with @samuelmoore.org earlier this year and expand Moore's view on Open Access publishing to broader research infrastructure and culture.
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In the first research seminar at CWTS of 2026, Samuel Moore argued that Open Access publishing took the wrong path and proposed alternatives with a new ‘commons’ approach. As PhD candidates studying s...
