Conflating "Responsible Metrics" with "Responsible Assessment" is a common strategic error in research management.

Responsible Metrics focus on data sources and quantification (the technical side). Responsible Assessment focuses on institutional processes, ethics, and people (the political/governance side).

Adopting better data tools (like OpenAlex) without reforming decision-making cultures is not a solution. It is often just a way to make the same mistakes using better data.

My latest analysis on why this distinction is critical for policy design: https://copdeb.com/2025/12/22/diferencia-metricas-responsable-evaluacion-responsable/

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New research in Journal of Informetrics asked 2,300+ social scientists from 42 countries: what are your top-3 publications?

 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101757

Only ~40% of self-identified “top” works also ranked in the author’s top-3 by citations. Even tripling citation counts wouldn’t push nearly a third of them into the bibliometric top. And 17% of “best” works don’t even appear in Scopus - especially in sociology and political science.

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My new paper on Ukrainian researchers’ publishing activity in Gold Open Access journals during the war has just been published. I focused on five major publishers (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and SAGE):

 https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2025-0059

Ukrainian papers in fully Gold OA journals of these publishers grew by more than 50% in 2023, with further growth in 2024.

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This is genuinely terrifying. Google Scholar is pushing "AI Powered Scholar Search."

What's scariest about this is that it will almost certainly turn up results that feel *right* -- they'll mention relevant topics and let a researcher craft a perfectly unassailable reference list.

But what it will prevent the researcher from doing is the actual research of finding relevant publications: discovering connections, framing questions, identifying contrasts…

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) now accepts HTML-based submissions for interactive research articles: https://tmlr-beyond-pdf.org/about

The format uses Markdown with supplementary HTML files and a .bib citation file. The final articles are similar to distill.pub publications with embedded widgets, videos, and GIFs.

It’s great to have more interactivity in articles, but I think it would make sense to consider bundling JavaScript dependencies locally. The example article currently relies on CDNs, which could cause reliability issues.
Interestingly, metadata currently includes only title, abstract, authors with affiliations, and table of contents. Keywords are not included.

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