#bibliometrics — Public Fediverse posts

Lutz Bornmann asks a deceptively simple question: should research organizations sign #DORA, #CoARA, and similar initiatives if signing alone doesn't guarantee better research assessment?

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101872

His key message is worth repeating: reform is not about replacing "bad metrics" with "good peer review." We need disciplinary sensitivity, professional evaluative bibliometrics, and, crucially, evaluation of the evaluation itself.

#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #OpenScience

📊 How do researchers actually use bibliographic databases today?

The Bibliometrics Service of the Université de Lorraine has published the results of its 2026 survey on Web of Science usage, conducted across the university community.

Based on 545 responses spanning a broad disciplinary spectrum, the survey explores current practices around Web of Science, Google Scholar, disciplinary databases, and the emerging open alternative #OpenAlex.

Key findings include:
🔹 Google Scholar is now the most consulted resource, ahead of Web of Science.
🔹 Web of Science remains mainly used for literature search, monitoring, bibliometric studies, and Journal Citation Reports.
🔹 OpenAlex, although still relatively new, is gaining attention for its broad coverage, accessibility, and open infrastructure.
🔹 The study suggests that many WoS uses could potentially transition toward OpenAlex, provided there is continued work on data quality and user support.

This work aligns with the Université de Lorraine’s commitment to open research information, in the broader context of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information @BarcelonaDORI and ongoing changes in institutional subscriptions to proprietary databases.

A key takeaway:
➡️ Open tools alone are not enough; their successful adoption also depends on training, mediation, and support from academic libraries.

📖 Read the full analysis:
🇫🇷 French version: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20310514
📂 Raw data available on Recherche Data Gouv:
https://doi.org/10.57745/THDNY1
🇬🇧 English version: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20312097

#OpenScience #Bibliometrics #ResearchInformation #OpenAlex #WebOfScience #OpenResearch

Damian Pattinson of @eLife (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model, then asks why other journals, including Science, don't renounce their own IFs.

#SciComm #JournalPublishing #ImpactFactor #Clarivate #WebOfScience #PeerReview #TheRoyalSociety #FutureOfScientificPublishing #Citations #Bibliometrics #ResearchImpact #ResearchAssessment

review of landslide susceptibility studies focused on LULC.

The development of this study had the collaboration of researchers from ESPOL/CIPAT-ESPOL, Ecuador, Universidad de Almería, Spain,
and University of Potsdam, Germany.

Thank you very much Andrés Velástegui Montoya, Néstor Montalván, Fernando Morante-Carballo, Oliver Korup, and Camilo Daleles Rennó.

#LULC #LUCC #landslide #landslidesusceptibility #susceptibility #Disaster #review #bibliometrics #academicresearch #phd #doctorate