A new article by Chloe Patton shows how debates about #OpenScience often slip into absurdity – like demanding #replication from the #Humanities. You can’t replicate history, culture, or interpretation the way you replicate a physics experiment. It’s a different kind of knowledge.
https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf052
Forcing STEM-style standards onto the humanities doesn’t improve #science – it just adds bureaucracy and limits academic freedom.
Today at my alma mater, I spoke about how research evaluation is quietly shifting from citations to ChatGPT-style predictions.
👉 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30585.12642
AI can already “detect quality” from text alone, and sometimes performs better than classic metrics. But it doesn’t evaluate science: it rewards what sounds like good science. We may be heading from “publish or perish” to the new absurdity: “write ChatGPT-friendly or perish.”
#AI #ChatGPT #ResearchEvaluation #Scientometrics #LLM #OpenScience
The recent debate in JoI highlights a key issue often ignored in research evaluation - the impact of document types on citation indicators:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101738
When all publication types are counted, normalized metrics become inconsistent and misleading. But once we restrict the analysis to articles and reviews, correlations rise sharply, and results become robust and reproducible.
#ResearchEvaluation #Bibliometrics #SciencePolicy #Ukraine #Metrics
I currently have about a dozen papers under review. Now imagine: a drone hits my window — and who will keep emailing editors and reviewers then? 😅
Stewart Manley published his brilliant idea in #ResearchEvaluation the “exclusive option”. Authors could submit to multiple journals at once, and interested editors request an exclusive right to review.
https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf027
No duplicated #peerreview. No endless delays. This could shake up academic publishing!
Journal Citation Reports 2025 released
https://opensocial.at/display/59c238fc-1068-61ac-900f-b23438858655
📢 New blog post! The Evaluation and Culture focal area at CWTS reflects on two years of work toward fairer research evaluation, inclusive cultures, and better scholarly communication.
#researchculture #scholarlycommunication #researchevaluation
The Evaluation and Culture focal area at CWTS is dedicated to studying, discussing, and advocating for renewed forms of scholarly communication, fair research evaluation, and inclusive research cultures. This blog post offers a reflection on our activities and progress over the past two years.
Science of science — Citation models and research evaluation
#PeerReview #ResearchEvaluation #ScienceOfScience #ScientificCommunication #VincentTraag
Serhii Nazarovets
Wilfred Mijnhardt
César Pallares
Yana Suchikova
Leiden Madtrics
Infodoc MicroVeille