Some simple spreadsheet research using @OpenAlex and the R package openalexR

Counting from 2020 to 2025, there have been over 58,000 items published under the Subscribe to Open model and it's roughly doubling every year.

#S2O #SubscribeToOpen

love this graphic.

source: https://www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-to-linux

I just declined to review for a paywalled/hybrid Wiley journal... and was given absolutely no means of communicating why I declined in the process.

Just a pathway through to: "thanks for letting us know" (byeee!!!)

I was locked and loaded, ready to tell the editor that I don't review for paywalled commercial journals that siphon-off large profit margins from the research ecosystem. I wonder if this 'efficiency' is somewhat deliberate to shield editors from such critique?

#OpenAccess

Anyone good at getting Android phones to do slightly unusual things?

Read on...

When I attach this to my Nothing 3a Pro phone, it kinda works... the USB-A for instance works - I can read&write to a thumb drive.

But I can’t get it to use Internet via RJ45 Ethernet. What do I need to do to get the (Android/Nothing) phone to use Ethernet?

Great to see the inclusivity & recognition of @OpenAlex improve with the recent 'Walden' (codename) data update.

You can compare old vs. new data at the OREO site (OpenAlex Rewrite Eval Overview) https://oreo.openalex.org/

The screenshot I'm looking at here is of country tagging. Over 525,828 works with a Nigerian affiliation tagged now, up from 438,448 in the previous (old) version.

Does Scopus or Web of Science ever give such a transparent overview of changes in their datasets over time?