#bibliometrics — Public Fediverse posts
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An OpenAlex working group chaired by Alperin suggests replacing the diamond/gold/green/hybrid/bronze system with labels for access, location, and license.
The goal is to separate information on the publisher's business model from the article's access status.This is the full report: https://zenodo.org/records/21934115
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If you don’t have access, you can read the article in your browser via this link: https://rdcu.be/fCrll.
And if you’d like a PDF version, head over to RG: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/413676790_Poor_bibliometric_studies_do_not_make_bibliometrics_poor_science_a_response_to_Ellegaard
#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #ResearchQuality #MetaScience #BibliometricAnalysis #PeerReview
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Is Scopus really a curated bibliographic database?
A new Scientometrics study finds 2.7M records without author information, 500K+ records with unknown source titles, inconsistent document types, and even London recorded as an affiliation.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05778-9
A useful reminder: better research assessment starts with understanding and checking the data - not just pressing a button.
#Scopus #Bibliometrics #ResearchAssessment #Scientometrics #ResearchEvaluation
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My new paper is out in Research Evaluation. I introduce "assessment creep": a risk that, as research assessment moves beyond simplistic metrics, we keep adding legitimate new criteria without making clear how they should be prioritised or combined:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvag050
The challenge for #DORA, #CoARA & research assessment reform is not complexity itself, but keeping evaluation coherent, transparent & accountable.
#ResearchEvaluation #ResearchPolicy #OpenScience #Bibliometrics
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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
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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.:doi: 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?
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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.
:doi: 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
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The recent debate in JoI highlights a key issue often ignored in research evaluation - the impact of document types on citation indicators:
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101738
When all publication types are counted, normalized metrics become inconsistent and misleading. But once we restrict the analysis to articles and reviews, correlations rise sharply, and results become robust and reproducible.
#ResearchEvaluation #Bibliometrics #SciencePolicy #Ukraine #Metrics
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A new study by Liu & Wang (2025) uncovers a shocking issue: millions of Scopus records have affiliation addresses but are labelled as "country-undefined."
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.25011
Why does "USA" ≠ "United States"? How can "United Kingdom" get lost? A critical problem for research evaluation and policy decisions!
Time for Scopus to act! ✅
#Bibliometrics #Metadata #AcademicPublishing #ResearchEvaluation #DataQuality #Scientometrics