Karen Keiller 🥌 📚Today I’m at the BRIC conference in #Edmonton https://bric-conference.ca/.
I heard a question about Twitter and altmetrics. What could we do to capture altmetrics in the #fediverse? I didn’t have an answer.
Is there an answer? @evan
eliasThe OpenAlex database in review: Evaluating its applications, capabilities, and limitations:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1751157726000337?via%3Dihub
It's a good overview with >150 articles covered.
Laetitia Bracco📊 How do researchers actually use bibliographic databases today?
The Bibliometrics Service of the Université de Lorraine has published the results of its 2026 survey on Web of Science usage, conducted across the university community.
Based on 545 responses spanning a broad disciplinary spectrum, the survey explores current practices around Web of Science, Google Scholar, disciplinary databases, and the emerging open alternative #OpenAlex.
Key findings include:
🔹 Google Scholar is now the most consulted resource, ahead of Web of Science.
🔹 Web of Science remains mainly used for literature search, monitoring, bibliometric studies, and Journal Citation Reports.
🔹 OpenAlex, although still relatively new, is gaining attention for its broad coverage, accessibility, and open infrastructure.
🔹 The study suggests that many WoS uses could potentially transition toward OpenAlex, provided there is continued work on data quality and user support.
This work aligns with the Université de Lorraine’s commitment to open research information, in the broader context of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @BarcelonaDORI and ongoing changes in institutional subscriptions to proprietary databases.
A key takeaway:
➡️ Open tools alone are not enough; their successful adoption also depends on training, mediation, and support from academic libraries.
📖 Read the full analysis:
🇫🇷 French version: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20310514
📂 Raw data available on Recherche Data Gouv:
https://doi.org/10.57745/THDNY1
🇬🇧 English version: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20312097
#OpenScience #Bibliometrics #ResearchInformation #OpenAlex #WebOfScience #OpenResearch
Enquête sur les usages du Web of Science à l'Université de Lorraine : analyse
Afin d’étudier les fonctionnalités de la base bibliographique et bibliométrique OpenAlex, alternative ouverte, gratuite et élargie à l’outil Web of Science, le service Bibliométrie de l’Université de Lorraine a souhaité connaître les usages actuels du personnel du site universitaire lorrain du Web of Science. Ce travail s’inscrit dans la continuité des engagements pris par la Présidence de l’Université de Lorraine dans le domaine, mais aussi plus largement dans le contexte d’ouverture des informations sur la recherche détaillé dans la Déclaration de Barcelone que l’Université de Lorraine a signée en novembre 2024 ; déclaration qui a notamment conduit Sorbonne Université à ne plus s’abonner au Web of Science. Plus récemment, c’est au tour du CNRS de se désabonner du Web of Science, et ce dès le 1er janvier 2026. Le résultat de cette enquête avait pour objectif de permettre au service Bibliométrie de remonter les besoins auprès de l’équipe d’OpenAlex afin d’adapter au mieux ses fonctionnalités et l’accompagnement mis en place. Les réponses ont été acceptées du 12 janvier au 13 février 2026.
LeidenForceDigital identity in science is not unified by default. Tools like ORCID and database checks can reveal mismatches and missing affiliations that affect visibility and credit.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04132-y
#ResearchIntegrity #ORCID #OpenScience #Bibliometrics #SciencePolicy
Albert CardonaYou may not agree with this paper, but you should read it:
"Aging and the narrowing of scientific innovation", Cui et al. 2026 (James Evans lab)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady8732
"Analyzing more than 12.5 million scientists who published between 1960 and 2020, we find that novelty—the linking of previously unconnected ideas—increases with academic age, whereas disruption—the replacement of established ideas with new ones—declines."
Translate ScienceTranslate Science invites you to our first PREreview Club live review! We'll be meeting online Tuesday, May 26, 2026 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM UTC. Participants who choose to be Review Authors will also collaborate asynch to finalize a constructive peer review.
We'll be reviewing Galip Kartal, Ali Karakaş. Mapping Research on Global Englishes: A Bibliometric Analysis, 14 April 2026, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9393872/v1]
RSVP on Mobilizon with your email:
https://mobilizon.picasoft.net/events/a6cff069-c166-4bb8-b0d4-c7e844a4e7ff
#OpenScience #PeerReview #translation #GlobalEnglish #bibliometrics
Mapping Research on Global Englishes: A Bibliometric Analysis
This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the Global Englishes (GE) research landscape, mapping its thematic evolution, intellectual structure, and global scholarly contributions. Drawing on 191 peer-reviewed articles indexed in the Web of Science, we employed co-occurrence,...
Using neural embeddings of citation networks, researchers map scientific “disruption”: when future research stops following past directions and starts a new trajectory.
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-breakthroughs-science-large-scale-analysis.html
#Science #Innovation #Bibliometrics #MachineLearning #ResearchPolicy
A new way to detect breakthroughs in science: Large-scale analysis reveals 'disruptive' innovations in research history
The history of science and technology is marked by major breakthroughs—the theory of evolution, the splitting of the atom, the development of antibiotics—and a research team including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, has developed a method to help pinpoint discoveries that reshaped the course of science.
Infodoc MicroVeilleComparison of OpenAlex and Scopus coverage of German institutions’ publications in top-tier journals
#AndreyLovakov #Bibliometrics #Germany #IvanSterligov #OpenAlex #ScientificCommunication #Scopus
Josir GomesA força do OpenAlex: nesse diagrama de Venn estão agrupados todos os periódicos onde os pesquisadores brasileiros publicam que estão na Scopus, no Google Scholar e no OpenAlex.
Dos periódicos que estão em alguma das 3 bases indexadoras, o OpenAlex tem 90% deles.
Serhii NazarovetsI’m glad to share my paper on publication activity and migration trends of Ukrainian SSH scholars during the first two years of the full-scale war.
👉 https://www.jscires.org/article/15/1/124
The key finding: the most productive researchers have largely remained in #Ukraine and many have maintained or even increased their publication activity, despite the challenges.
#Science #OpenScience #Bibliometrics #HigherEducation #Scientometrics #Research #Academia
