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#Scientometrics & #Bibliometrics researchers!
#DidYouKnow the #OpenAIREGraph dataset is publicly accessible on #GoogleCloud #BigQuery with full tutorials & use-cases available?
Ready for you to explore, analyze, and discover insights!
✅ Query millions of publications, datasets, software, projects & their relationships
✅ Build custom analytics
✅ Track research impact & collaboration networks

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#OpenScience #OpenData #BigQuery #ScholarlyComms #ResearchMetrics

Serhii Nazarovets Dec 9

The authors show that European collaboration networks 🇪🇺 remain strongly clustered, largely along geographical and historical lines:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05499-5

While the total volume of international collaboration has grown exponentially, cross-cluster collaboration remains below expectations, even after major EU policy initiatives such as the European Research Area.

#Scientometrics #Collaboration #SciencePolicy #OpenAlex #OpenScience

Bridging borders or widening gaps? The dynamics of European scientific collaboration networks - Scientometrics

The study explores a dynamic co-authorship network among European countries between 1990 and 2023 that arose from an interplay of geographical, linguistic, and historical factors which influenced the scientific collaboration. In the analysis, bibliometric data from OpenAlex are used in Indirect Blockmodeling (IB) and Dynamic Stochastic Blockmodeling (DSBM) to examine patterns in three critical periods: rise of the Internet (1994–2003), enlargement of the EU (2004–2013), and the European Research Area (ERA) initiatives (2014–2023). The findings reveal exponential growth in the number of co-authored publications, an overall increase in intra-cluster collaboration, notably in the Balkan, Scandinavian, and Western clusters, coupled with persistent regional disparities. Despite EU policy interventions, collaborations between Western and non-Western regions remain limited. The study shows the need for targeted measures to ensure scientific networks across Europe are more inclusive and balanced.

SpringerLink

The OpenAIRE Graph Nov 26

#Scientometrics & #Bibliometrics researchers!

Did you know the #OpenAIREGraph dataset is publicly accessible on #GoogleCloud #BigQuery, with full tutorials & use-cases available?
Ready for you to explore, analyse, and discover insights!

✅ Query millions of publications, datasets, software, projects & their relationships
✅ Build custom analytics
✅ Track research impact & collaboration networks

Visit https://graph.openaire.eu/docs/cloud-access/

#OpenScience #OpenData #BigQuery #ScholarlyComms #ResearchMetrics

Serhii Nazarovets Nov 20

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

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Serhii Nazarovets Nov 16

Interestingly, one archival witness remembered Zinaida Mulchenko as a "PhD student from #Kyiv" – an unconfirmed but intriguing Ukrainian thread in the story of a scholar who helped shape global scientometrics.

👉 https://doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.397

@QSS_ISSI #Scientometrics #MatildaEffect #HistoryOfScience #WomenInScience #Bibliometrics #Ukraine

The Matilda Effect in Soviet scientometrics? Nalimov, Mulchenko, and the origins of Naukometriya

Abstract. This article revisits the early history of Soviet scientometrics, examining the role of Zinaida Mulchenko in writing Naukometriya – the foundational book in this field. While Vasily V. Nalimov is widely regarded as the sole author of the book, the influence of Mulchenko remains mostly unknown. We argue that her involvement in writing Naukometriya was also significant. To support this claim, we first reveal the key aspects of her biography obtained through the archival research and informants’ testimonies. Then, we compare the content of Naukometriya with Mulchenko’s Ph.D. dissertation, i.e. the first doctoral thesis in scientometrics defended in the Soviet Union, underlying the structural, systematic and content overlaps that question the commonly held view of sole authorship. Such analysis is further accompanied with the track-record of Nalimov-Mulchenko co-authorship reconstruction preceding the years of Naukometriya publication. Finally, we propose that Mulchenko’s diminished positionality as the co-author of the book can be understood through the lens of the Matilda Effect – a systematic under-recognition of women’s contributions to science. Drawing from multi-level analysis, we reconstruct her role in writing the book and identify the reasons that eventually led to Mulchenko’s erasure from the history of Soviet scientometrics.Peer Review. https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway/wos/peer-review/10.1162/QSS.a.397

MIT Press

Serhii Nazarovets Nov 16

#Scientometrics is a direct translation of the Soviet term naukometriya, introduced through the 1969 monograph by Vasily Nalimov and Zinaida Mulchenko. A new paper in @QSS_ISSI reveals that around 15% of that monograph consists of fragments from Mulchenko’s PhD thesis on information flows in science — meaning that many core ideas of Soviet scientometrics were actually hers. Yet she almost disappeared from the historical record = #MatildaEffect

📄 https://doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.397

#WomenInScience

Matt Hodgkinson Oct 31

“In my opinion, metric-based recognition without integrity screening can inadvertently legitimize problematic practices. That risk is particularly acute in environments where publication is tied to career progression but where research funding, infrastructure, and oversight remain weak. These conditions can – and often do – fuel paper mills, coercive citation policies, and other unethical behaviors.”

Maryam Sayab spoke to Frederik Joelving for Retraction Watch on Clarivate's involvement in Iraqi research awards being granted to individuals with known integrity concerns.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/31/exclusive-clarivate-web-of-science-involved-dubious-awards-iraq/

#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #Citations #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Iraq #MENA #RetractionWatch

Exclusive: Web of Science company involved in dubious awards in Iraq

Hayder A. Dhahad, Iraq’s deputy minister for scientific research affairs, speaks at an awards ceremony at the country’s Science Day celebration. Source: Instagram In the string of prestigious…

Retraction Watch

hauschke Oct 8

It is 2025. And still it seems to be okay to publish about #OpenResearchInformation (ORI) behind a paywall?

That is only a tiny bitt less ironic than a closed access publication about open access.

Current example: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05347-6

Really, I do not understand why #Scientometrics does not flip. OpenAlex finds 121 articles there with #OpenAccess in abstract or title!

https://openalex.org/works?page=1&filter=primary_location.source.id:s148561398,title_and_abstract.search:%22open+access%22

It's a pity, they even have a CfP on ORI, and in another journal I would love to submit.

STOP DISINFORMATION Desinformación Oct 5

"¿En qué se diferencia la #pseudociencia de la ciencia? Un análisis bibliométrico por pares" ya está aceptado para su publicación en la revista #Scientometrics. Consulta este hilo para más información

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kb4zazjdnakotspqkgzakmim/post/3lz4pnvtjtk2q

elias Sep 23

OA.Works is shutting down Open Access Button and InstantILL in November.
They recommend switching to Unpaywall as a replacement for OpenAccessButton.

https://blog.oa.works/sunsetting-the-open-access-button-instantill/
#Scientometrics

Sunsetting the Open Access Button & InstantILL

How we’re refocusing our work to serve the Open Access movement.

OA.Works Blog