Can a great song title make your paper more visible? In our new study, we explored how famous song titles appear in Scopus-indexed article titles.
🎧 https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515261437409
We found that in most cases, these titles are used as catchy rhetorical signals to attract readers. But here’s the catch: they don’t necessarily lead to higher citations. So yes, your title can sound like a rock hit… but impact still depends on more than style.
Initial questions about this #retraction risk calculator:
What about negative phrases in social media posts that are NOT actually about the linked article?
What about negative posts about a paper that don’t actually link to the paper? (Screenshots, “link in comment” posts, etc.)
#NLP #sentimentAnalysis #webScraping #bibliometrics #Altmetric #stats
A recent Journal of Informetrics study shows – There is no universal number of “too many authors.”
In some fields, 3–6 may already be unusual.
In medicine – dozens are common.
In physics – large teams are often the norm.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101803
Yes, #hyperauthorship can signal problems (e.g., honorary authorship, metric inflation). But the key question is not “how many authors?” 👉 it is: Is this abnormal for this field and time?
New blog post on @lseimpactblog about our project. Why global databases are not enough, and why national scholarly infrastructures matter more than we think.
The solution is not to replace global systems, but to connect national ones into a network of interoperable, open infrastructures.
#OpenScience #Bibliometrics #OpenInfrastructure #ResearchPolicy
Global scholarly information systems provide poor coverage for social science and humanities research taking place outside of the anglophone world and in languages other than English. Paul Donner, Stephan Stahlschmidt, Serhii Nazarovets, Igor Cojocaru, Irina Cojocaru, Marina Razmadze and Shushanik Sargsyan highlight a range of national initiatives taking place aimed at improving scholarly data for
Our new 📄 in Current Alzheimer Research looks at a strange, and worrying, phenomenon in scientific writing: tortured phrases. Instead of blood-brain barrier, some papers use bizarre alternatives like blood-brain obstruction or blood-cerebrum boundary.
https://doi.org/10.2174/0115672050460224260206052444
These are not just language errors, they can signal deeper issues such as weak #PeerReview or even #PaperMills.
#OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #Bibliometrics #Neuroethics #AcademicPublishing
Nova versão do Odorico Periódicos, com o Qualis de 2026 e os indicadores bibliométricos do OpenAlex e da Scopus atualizados:
https://odorico.ibict.br/periodicos/
Serve para quem trabalha com bibliometria ou simplesmente para quem quer rapidamente saber qual o "prestígio" de um periódico antes de publicar nele.
Construire un indicateur bibliométrique pour l’histoire avec les comptes-rendus de lecture
https://pmartinolli.github.io/blog/2026/indicateur-bibliometrique-histoire-compte-rendu-de-lecture/
poke @BraccoLaetitia #bibliometrics #history #histoire #Bibliometrie
Où l’on construit notre propre indicateur bibliométrique pour valoriser la production scientifique en histoire via les livres avec un protocole simple de collecte, de traitement et de présentation des comptes-rendus de lecture.
Where do bibliometricians come from? 🤔 A new international study suggests a simple answer: mostly from academic libraries. Around 60% of people doing bibliometric work at universities are based there.
https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515261417634
The catch? Over 70% say they never had formal training in bibliometrics. People simply grow into the role while working with databases, indicators and research analytics.
#bibliometrics #scientometrics #researchmetrics #responsiblemetrics #openscience
Where art thou, academic integrity? Musings here from @hugh about incoherence at the centre of Clarivate Nexus.
"[Nexus] is a pitch to #librarians who have correctly identified generative #AI #chatbots as purveyors of endless bullshit, but also know that students + some researchers are going to use them anyway [...] #Clarivate are essentially integrity-washing synthetic text, giving it an #academic sheen without any academic rigour."
https://www.hughrundle.net/does-clarivate-understand-what-citations-are-for/ #citations #bibliometrics
Serhii Nazarovets
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
Kate Nyhan
Josir Gomes
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