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🗝️ The Information & Openness focal area is celebrating two years of progress! ✨ From vision to action, the team has made key strides in advancing and promoting open research information practices.
Check out our latest blog post to see what they've accomplished and what's coming next.

👉https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/from-vision-to-action-reflecting-on-our-first-two-years-at-the-information-openness-focal-area

#OpenResearchInformation #OpenScience #InformationOpenness #CWTS

From vision to action: our first two years in the focal area Information & Openness

The Information & Openness focal area at CWTS is dedicated to studying, discussing and advocating for the openness of research information. In this blog post, we look back and reflect on our first two years.

First, praise for this #CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition. The Leiden Ranking was already, with U-multirank the odd one out among global rankings. Leiden is the first to try radical transparency and has put in a lot of hard and good work. It did this collaboratively, further improving data quality at OpenAlex. That is a huge. The openness extends to code, going beyond just open data and includes the algorithms for assigning topical clusters. I really like the open communication on the project!
Recently @cwts #CWTS launched the Leiden Ranking Open Edition #ranking of universities, in collaboration with @OpenAlex, COKI (@LucyMontgomery_, @cameronneylon) and Sesame Open Science (@MsPhelps). I have some reflections on this new ranking development that I will also share during the webinar today at 3PM CET (https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50ode-sqDgrHd2RGWtphvap5qPoZ5bB2ord#/registration)
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Leiden Ranking Open Edition 2023 - Webinar 2. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Leiden Ranking Open Edition 2023 - Webinar 2. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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My ex-colleague @pcastromartin has published this blog post about the chart topping Open Access performance of Scotland's universities. Worth a read!

Strong performance of Scottish HEIs in 2023 #CWTS #Leiden Open Ranking https://openresearchscotland.wordpress.com/2024/02/06/strong-performance-of-scottish-heis-in-2023-cwts-leiden-open-ranking/ #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenAlex #OpenScience #bibliometrics

Strong performance of Scottish HEIs in 2023 CWTS Leiden Open Ranking

The Open Access section of the CWTS Leiden ‘open ranking’ for 2023 published on Jan 30th, 2024 shows the usual strong performance of Scottish universities, with 5 of them in the top-11. This Open R…

Open Research Scotland Group

“More than our Ranks”: een antwoord op de perverse effecten van de huidige university #rankings?
Het is i.i.g. een erg goed initiatief van #INORMS Research Evaluation Group. Betrokken zijn o.a.: #CWTS Leiden, #EUA, #ScienceEurope en #DORA.

#INORMS lanceerde dit initiatief 2 weken geleden. Het is nog geen panklaar alternatief voor de huidige #rankings. Dat zou ook veel te ambitieus zijn.
Maar het bouwt wel aan een brede coalitie tegen die rankings. En dat is hard nodig!

https://inorms.net/more-than-our-rank/

Done with another round of #MapaTime socialization with university froshies, that introduced them to basics of improving #OpenStreetMap. From #Mapillary verification, #Pic4Review validation, and OSM integration through #MapRoulette. They also learned how to use iD and #RapiD for various mapping efforts of the community in the #Philippines.

Many thanks to the continuing support of #KaartGroup, the #PUPSanJuan administration, and our hard-working #CWTS++ volunteers.