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"Roaming Access Expiration Notice
Your roaming access to the Web of Science has expired. You are in a free session of the Web of Science and the functionality may be limited. To gain full access to the Web of Science you will need to renew your roaming access by signing in to Web of Science at your institution."

They really like to snoop don't they?

Peter Cock Mar 10

#Clarivate wants me to review 7 publications added to my #WebOfScience profile, so tried to log in. Figured I'd login via my #OrcidID, but Clarivate want permissions to:

* Add/update your research activities (works, affiliations, etc.)
* Add/update information about you (country, keywords, etc.)
* Read your information with visibility set to Trusted parties

None of those are acceptable to me, denied. Signed in with Google - all they get that way is read access to my name, profile picture and email address.

Infodoc MicroVeille Jan 30

The ‘Big Three’ of Scientific Information: A comparative bibliometric review of Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/01/30/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

The ‘Big Three’ of Scientific Information: A comparative bibliometric review of Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex – InfoDoc MicroVeille

Laetitia Bracco Jan 19

📢 Participez à l’enquête sur les usages du Web of Science à l’Université de Lorraine !

Dans le cadre d’une étude sur les alternatives ouvertes et gratuites comme OpenAlex, le service Bibliométrie de l’Université de Lorraine souhaite recueillir les retours de tout le personnel sur l’utilisation actuelle du Web of Science.

Cette initiative s’inscrit dans la continuité des engagements de l’Université de Lorraine en faveur de l’ouverture des informations de recherche, notamment via la Déclaration de Barcelone signée en novembre 2024. Elle fait écho aux récentes décisions de Sorbonne Université et du CNRS de se désabonner du Web of Science (dès janvier 2026 pour ce dernier).

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⏳ Date limite : 13 février 2026
🔗 Je participe à l’enquête : https://enquetes.univ-lorraine.fr/index.php/567673?lang=fr
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📅 Inscription : https://rdv.univ-lorraine.fr/ateliersbu/science-ouverte/

#Bibliométrie #OpenAlex #WebOfScience

Enquête sur les usages actuels du Web of Science

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Georg Weissenbacher Jan 3

@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.

Pooya Dec 12

Sometimes ‘Year’ Isn’t a Year: How Web of Science Date Fields Mislead Bibliometric Analysis https://thinkhammerly.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/wos-year/ #AcademicPublishingData, #BibliometricAnalysis, #BibliometricWorkflows, #BiblioPy, #EarlyAccess, #MetadataDiscrepancies, #PublicationYear, #ResearchTrends, #WebOfScience

Sometimes ‘Year’ Isn’t a Year: How Web of Science Date Fields Mislead Bibliometric Analysis

Web of Science mixes Early Access and Publication Year in its search results, creating misleading trends for bibliometric analysis. Here’s how the distortion works — and how to avoid it.

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Giuseppe Bilotta Dec 12

According to #WebOfScience I have been cited one time in a patent, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to find *which* patent cites me. I'm honestly curious where that might be coming from, since AFAIK I have never done anything patent-worthy … does anybody know how I can find out if it's true and how to find the citing patent?

Pooya Dec 12

Publication Year Isn’t Always What It Seems https://thinkhammerly.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/publication-year-isnt-always-what-it-seems/ #AcademicPublishingData, #BibliometricAnalysis, #BibliometricWorkflows, #BiblioPy, #EarlyAccess, #MetadataDiscrepancies, #PublicationYear, #ResearchTrends, #WebOfScience

Publication Year Isn’t Always What It Seems

Web of Science mixes Early Access and Publication Year in its search results, creating misleading trends for bibliometric analysis. Here’s how the distortion works — and how to avoid it.

Think Hammerly

Matt Hodgkinson Dec 11

A 2020 paper on using jade amulets to cure COVID has had quite some fallout.

Three years on, the first author sued his institution, Pittsburgh, because he said their response was discriminatory: https://retractionwatch.com/2023/08/11/author-of-paper-on-covid-19-and-jade-amulets-sues-employer-for-mental-anguish-discrimination/. He left the same year and has since founded his own institute for "paradigm shifts".

Five years on, this case and other problems led Clarivate to delist the journal, Elsevier's Science of the Total Environment, from the Web of Science. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-11-28/the-fall-of-a-prolific-science-journal-exposes-the-billion-dollar-profits-of-scientific-publishing.html

#ResearchIntegrity #AbstractingAndIndexing #AcademicJournals #Clarivate #WebOfScience #ScienceOfTheTotalEnvironment

Author of paper on COVID-19 and jade amulets sues employer for ‘mental anguish,’ discrimination

Moses Bility A professor at the University of Pittsburgh is suing the institution and two administrators, alleging they discriminated against him because he is Black. The researcher, Mo…

Retraction Watch

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petersuber Dec 2

Update. The French 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 (#CNRS) is canceling the #WebOfScience and encouraging its affiliates to use #OpenAlex. It canceled #Scopus last year.
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

#Clarivate #Elsevier #France #OpenSource #WOS

The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science

From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'

CNRS