Infodoc MicroVeilleComparison of OpenAlex and Scopus coverage of German institutions’ publications in top-tier journals
#AndreyLovakov #Bibliometrics #Germany #IvanSterligov #OpenAlex #ScientificCommunication #Scopus
David Prieto (valerian32)Pues se me ocurrió buscar en #SCOPUS las #fallas de #valencia y parece que es un tema CANDENTE y EXPLOSIVO.
STOPDISINFORMATIONLa IA no está suficientemente desarrollada para evaluar la calidad de una publicación científica. Puede ayudar a pillar plagios, copypaste etc Hasta ahi por ahora
La IA lo único que evalúa son los "huecos" en investigación. Ya lo hace la de #Scopus.
Pero el problema es que con TRUMPISTAS en el poder los americanos querrán tener acceso a todo lo que manejan las empresas de su territorio. El que estas empresas tan potentes estén ahí con este tipo de dictadorzuelos es un gravísimo problema.
Carl von LesquereuxI'm starting to hate academic databases and how they save bibliographic data.
#WebOfScience and #Scopus, sincerely, fuck you both.
Biblioteques de la UPCD'avui 24 de febrer al 5 de març #FECYT, @[email protected] i #Scopus organitzen 8 webinars gratuïts sobre Web of Science i Scopus:
▪️Publicacions amb impacte
▪️Cerca bàsica/avançada
▪️Perfil autor
Cal inscripció prèvia amb correu institucional: https://f.mtr.cool/svfcphpzgf
The ‘Big Three’ of Scientific Information: A comparative bibliometric review of Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex
#BibliographicDatabases #BibliometricAnalysis #DanielTorresSalinas #OpenAlex #ScientificInformation #Scopus #WebOfScience #WenceslaoArroyoMachado
Georg Weissenbacher@vardi indexing and metadata is still in the hands of the big publishers (#scopus and #webofscience, for instance). We need to double down on open alternatives (such as #dblp). It would have been a positive surprise if #ACM would have led the way here, but obviously they decided to go in a different direction.
@adamshostack @vardi @tychotithonus I believe our publications should not be in the hand of a single institution. #arXiv, #OpenResearchEurope (https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/) or even better a distributed/federated repository run by universities would be a better solution. In terms of editing, at least in CS, publishers don’t add value but friction (it’s outsourced to underpaid workers who add unnecessary mistakes and are impossible to communicate with), so this step can probably discarded. Indexing is still largely controlled by the big publishers (#scopus), so we need open alternatives (such as #dblp).
LCBAIt's good to hear of another high profile break away from #WoS and #Scopus. More power to #OpenResearch and open databases.
In the DarkYet Another Elsevier Scandal
I wish to draw your attention to an article in the Spanish newspaper El Pais. I encourage you to read the full article, which in English here, and the headline is this:
The article is about a very dodgy journal called Science of the Total Environment published by Elsevier. As far as I can tell, despite the scandal, this journal is still listed in Scopus which is meant to mean that it is a quality journal. One shouldn’t be surprised however, because Scopus is itself owned by Elsevier. Why anyone would trust Scopus for anything is completely beyond me.
As well as the huge revenues and profit margins revealed in the article, it also mentions that Erik Engstrom, CEO of RELX (the multinational that owns Elsevier), earned more than €15 million ($17.4 million) in 2024 between his salary and other compensation. Nice work if you can get it…
Here’s a quote:
The scandal exposes the windfall profits of scientific publishers, who in recent years have amassed billions of dollars in earnings from public funds earmarked for science.
Quite so. I’ve been saying as much for years, in fact, and it is the major reason for setting up the Open Journal of Astrophysics. In my opinion, however, the scandalous behaviour of publishers is only half the problem: equally to blame are the institutions that go along with it.
#elsevier #journalOfTheTotalEnvironment #openAccessPublishing #scopus
