#scientometrics — Public Fediverse posts
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Almost skipped a new paper in #Scientometrics - glad I didn’t. A key point: fundamental research is often too uncertain for the market, so universities become crucial for helping ideas survive through startups, accelerators, and entrepreneurial networks. #Patent licensing, meanwhile, depends more on real long-term collaboration with industry than on fancy “technology transfer offices”.
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05648-4
#HigherEducation #Innovation #Startups #Technology #Transfer
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Can a great song title make your paper more visible? In our new study, we explored how famous song titles appear in Scopus-indexed article titles.
🎧 https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515261437409
We found that in most cases, these titles are used as catchy rhetorical signals to attract readers. But here’s the catch: they don’t necessarily lead to higher citations. So yes, your title can sound like a rock hit… but impact still depends on more than style.
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New commentary published in #Scientometrics: “Scientific collaboration without flights: Ukraine’s wartime adaptation.”
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05576-3
Since 2022, #Ukraine has had no civilian air travel, severely limiting academic mobility. Yet, international co-authorship involving Ukrainian institutions has not declined — it has increased. A small piece on resilience, digital collaboration, and global academic solidarity.
#ResearchCollaboration #OpenScience #ScienceResilience #GlobalScience
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The authors show that European collaboration networks 🇪🇺 remain strongly clustered, largely along geographical and historical lines:
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05499-5
While the total volume of international collaboration has grown exponentially, cross-cluster collaboration remains below expectations, even after major EU policy initiatives such as the European Research Area.
#Scientometrics #Collaboration #SciencePolicy #OpenAlex #OpenScience
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“In my opinion, metric-based recognition without integrity screening can inadvertently legitimize problematic practices. That risk is particularly acute in environments where publication is tied to career progression but where research funding, infrastructure, and oversight remain weak. These conditions can – and often do – fuel paper mills, coercive citation policies, and other unethical behaviors.”
Maryam Sayab spoke to Frederik Joelving for Retraction Watch on Clarivate's involvement in Iraqi research awards being granted to individuals with known integrity concerns.
#Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #Citations #Retractions #ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #Iraq #MENA #RetractionWatch
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Being a "Highly Cited Researcher" has gone from a sign of having impact as a researcher to a potential indicator of misconduct.
"Manipulations have been so obvious and large that, in 2024, over 2,000 researchers were removed from a HCR list containing some 6,600 names." - Lauranne Chaignon
#ResearchImpact #HighlyCitedResearchers #Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #Citations #CitationManipulation #CitationScience #ScientificMisconduct #ImpactOfSocialSciences
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Do researchers from prestigious universities have an unfair advantage in securing research funding? 📊 A new study on China's #NSFC grants confirms the #MatthewEffect — the rich get richer in academia:
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-025-05278-2
Should funding be prestige-blind? 🤔 I'd advocate for anonymized applications to prevent institutional bias.
#ScienceFunding #AcademicInequality #Scientometrics #UniversityPrestige
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Great research about Academic #favoritism at work: insider bias in 🇹🇷 Turkish national journals:
:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04355-0
"The findings show that insiders not only publish in large numbers in their affiliated institutions’ journals, but also do so at significantly faster speeds. Specifically, 4938 (29.79% of) papers have at least one insider author, and they are accepted 41.5 days faster than the average outsider submission".