| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6551-8140 |
| Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative | https://openknowledge.community/ |
| COKI OA Dashboard | https://openknowledge.community/dashboards/coki-open-access-dashboard/ |
| Open Knowledge Institutions Book | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/open-knowledge-institutions |
Very excited to see the Open Edition of the Leiden Ranking launched:
https://open.leidenranking.com
Culmination of a lot of work by @cwts team lead by @LudoWaltman and a big effort from the @OpenAlex to make all of this possible along with @MsPhelps @LucyMontgomery_ and the CWTS technical team led by @neesjanvaneck
Today @cwtsleiden launches the Leiden Ranking Open Edition - fully based on open data, and with underlying data and code made openly available:
https://open.leidenranking.com/resources
Read more in detail about it on the @leidenmadtrics blog: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/introducing-the-leiden-ranking-open-edition
This was a fruitful collaboration between CWTS, COKI (@cameronneylon and @LucyMontgomery_) and @OpenAlex that I was happy to be involved in - congrats @LudoWaltman @neesjanvaneck and the rest of the team for making it work!
I'm rather taken with this elegant visualization of @ClimateChange from the BBC. Particularly as it clearly shows how anomalous 2023 was.
It's a Ridgeline plot (also sometimes called a joyplot, after the iconic album cover from the band #JoyDivision).
I just wish they'd used a pre-industrial average as the baseline. 2023 was 1.48°C warmer than pre-industrial times according to the Copernicus data.
The goal of open access is to allow more people to read and use research outputs. An observed association between highly cited research outputs and open access has been claimed as evidence of increased usage of the research, but this remains controversial. A higher citation count also does not necessarily imply wider usage such as citations by authors from more places. A knowledge gap exists in our understanding of who gets to use open access research outputs and where users are located. Here we address this gap by examining the association between an output’s open access status and the diversity of research outputs that cite it. By analysing large-scale bibliographic data from 2010 to 2019, we found a robust association between open access and increased diversity of citation sources by institutions, countries, subregions, regions, and fields of research, across outputs with both high and medium–low citation counts. Open access through disciplinary or institutional repositories showed a stronger effect than open access via publisher platforms. This study adds a new perspective to our understanding of how citations can be used to explore the effects of open access. It also provides new evidence at global scale of the benefits of open access as a mechanism for widening the use of research and increasing the diversity of the communities that benefit from it.
Open research information is a key priority in the Knowledge Agenda of @cwts https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the-focal-areas-of-cwts.
As part of our new strategic plan, we're launching the course 'Scientometrics Using Open Data', organized jointly with the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative #COKI. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first professional course worldwide on open research information.
Register now for this exciting new course: https://www.cwts.nl/education/cwts-course-program/scientometrics-using-open-data.
Join us for next month’s #Humanities Roundtable (Tuesday, June 20) and explore how the shift to #OpenAccess and emerging technologies/#AI will shape the future of these important disciplines.
Speakers include Divine Fuh, Bryn Geffert, Erinma Ochu , @LucyMontgomery_, @roopikarisam, Charles Watkinson, and more: https://www.niso.org/events/2023-niso-humanities-roundtable
Our article about the COKI #OpenAccess Dashboard has been published.
Article here: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/id/3398/
Checkout the COKI Open Access Dashboard here: https://open.coki.ac
🔊 OAPEN & DOAB have just published their POSI (Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure) self-audit - read all about it and download the full self-audit here! 📖
https://oapen.hypotheses.org/524
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It is with great pleasure and sense of achievement that we share with you today our POSI self-audit for OAPEN & DOAB (download OAPEN & DOAB POSI self-audit PDF). As you may know, OAPEN and DOAB are separate but interconnected infrastructures for open access books, governed by the OAPEN Foundation and DOAB Foundation respectively. In … Continue reading "OAPEN & DOAB POSI self-audit"
"The two female authors ... share personal histories rife with egregious examples of gender bias ... today they share belief ... situation in academia ... has dramatically improved over recent decades. Key question today is in which domains of academic life has explicit sexism been addressed? In which domains is it important to acknowledge continuing bias?
Just as there are negative consequences of not acknowledging bias, there are also costs of believing sexism ... is pervasive when it's not"
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