#scientometrics — Public Fediverse posts

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

New in Journal of Informetrics: Myroslava Hladchenko examines how foreign co-affiliations shaped the research performance of Ukrainian universities and the National Academy of Sciences before and during Russia’s full-scale invasion.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101853

#Scientometrics #ResearchEvaluation #SciencePolicy #Ukraine

An interesting paper by Lutz Bornmann and António Osório on incentives, competition, and undesirable practices in science.

The debate over research metrics is often framed too simply: metrics or no metrics? A better question is: what kind of behaviour does an evaluation system make rational? Good research assessment should make doing good science the rational choice.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-026-00900-7

#ResearchEvaluation #ResearchAssessment #Scientometrics #ResearchIntegrity

An interesting evolution from Mike Thelwall. A year ago, he was cautiously exploring whether LLMs could approximate expert research assessment. Today, he reports that ChatGPT-5 mini reached correlations of up to 0.905 with expert REF2021 quality assessments across some disciplines, using a dataset of more than 107,000 UK research articles.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2026-0058

#ResearchEvaluation #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #ChatGPT #LLM #AI #SciencePolicy

When did "local" become a synonym for "second-rate"? A thought-provoking new paper in #ResearchEvaluation argues that locality is a characteristic of research, not a measure of its quality.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvag045

A timely reminder for everyone involved in research assessment.

#Scientometrics #OpenScience #ResearchPolicy #SciencePolicy #HigherEducation

The reviewers probably never imagined becoming my distraction during a Russian ballistic missile attack on #Kyiv.

I'm revising a manuscript for #Scientometrics while explosions echo across the city and firefighters battle multiple fires.

For many Ukrainian researchers, this is simply another working night.

💻 Back to revising the manuscript.

Articles receive about 11% fewer views on weekends than on weekdays. An even stronger seasonal effect appears during summer: in June-August, the average number of daily article views is roughly 50% lower than during the rest of the year.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05710-1

So, if your paper is being published today (in the middle of summer, just before the weekend) and the publication gets delayed... it might even work in your favour. 🙂

#Scientometrics #OpenAccess #Bibliometrics #ScholComm

[Thèse] Yutong Fei. Étude et classification des contextes de citation pour une construction d’indicateurs relationnels sémantiques. Université Cl. Bernard Lyon 1, 2026 -> https://hal.science/tel-05687014v1
#researchonresearch #ROR #citation #scientometrics #bibliometrics #TDM #openaccess #IST #Lyon

Analysing more than 30K cell biology papers 📄, the authors found that after performance-based evaluation systems began emphasizing first and corresponding authorship, the number of co-first and co-corresponding authors increased substantially.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101838

Interestingly, team sizes did not grow in the same way = credit was simply redistributed among more researchers.

#Scientometrics #ResearchEvaluation #Authorship #AcademicPublishing #ResearchPolicy

Most university rankings focus on Harvard, Oxford, and a handful of global stars. A recent paper takes a different approach - compares entire #HigherEducation systems:

📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101839

One interesting finding is that countries such as the UK, Spain, and Italy show a more evenly distributed level of institutional performance, whereas systems like the US and China rely more heavily on a smaller group of elite universities.

#UniversityRankings #ResearchEvaluation #Scientometrics

Today I had the pleasure of presenting my fellowship research at the weekly interdisciplinary #VUIAS seminar.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35582.55364

One of the key messages was simple: metrics often reveal symptoms, but understanding integrity problems requires looking at research environments, incentives, and organisational cultures.

#ResearchIntegrity #Scientometrics #ResearchEthics #OpenScience #AcademicIntegrity #ScholarlyCommunication #HigherEducation #Science

Four years later, just a meaningless comparison for fun.

My 2021 post:
https://dju.social/@cdpxe/109450809741231199
(I removed the predatory journals)

#infosec #cybersecurity #science #scientometrics #dblp

Grateful to #VUIAS for the opportunity to present my workshop "Ranked but Not Heard: Metrics and the Position of Ukrainian Scholarship" during the Academic and Public Positioning for Ukrainian Scholars workshop in Vienna.

The presentation explored academic visibility, scientometrics, open scholarly infrastructures, and the challenges Ukrainian researchers face within global systems of research evaluation.

👉 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35650.13760

#OpenScience #Scientometrics #ResearchEvaluation #Ukraine

This paper explores the fascinating phenomenon of “zombie journals” – journals that continue to exist after their editorial boards resign and launch rival “breakaway journals.”

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105519

Using cases from linguistics and bibliometrics, the study shows that journal brands can survive institutional crises, but often with dramatically changed author communities, citation patterns, and academic identities.

#AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #Scientometrics #JournalMetrics

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

I’m glad to share my paper on publication activity and migration trends of Ukrainian SSH scholars during the first two years of the full-scale war.

👉 https://www.jscires.org/article/15/1/124

The key finding: the most productive researchers have largely remained in #Ukraine and many have maintained or even increased their publication activity, despite the challenges.

#Science #OpenScience #Bibliometrics #HigherEducation #Scientometrics #Research #Academia

Today I gave a talk on @OpenAlex — the largest open database of scholarly metadata. #OpenAlex offers a broader and more inclusive view of science, making previously “invisible” research more visible.

At the same time, it raises important questions about metadata quality, data completeness, and how we interpret metrics.

👉 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31061.79847

A key takeaway: research evaluation can vary significantly depending on the data source and analytical choices.

#OpenScience #Scientometrics

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.

#Scientometrics #AcademicWriting #Bibliometrics

Gave a short online lecture on altmetrics today. Main point: altmetrics measure attention, not quality. Sometimes they capture real interest - sometimes just noise. Attention ≠ impact.

👉 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.30154.12488

#Altmetrics #ResearchImpact #OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication #Scientometrics

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?

#Scientometrics #ResearchEvaluation #Bibliometrics

Most research evaluation still rewards papers, not the work that makes them possible. Yet researchers say up to 75% of a project can be data work: collecting, cleaning, curating, documenting.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvag008

Maybe it's time to stop pretending that publications alone represent research.

#OpenScience #ResearchEvaluation #DataCitation #ResponsibleMetrics #Scientometrics

New paper in Research Evaluation explores how researchers actually cite data. Key insight: data citations are far more complex than simple indicators of data reuse.

:oa: https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvag008

They reflect scientific practice, community norms, attribution, and even reputation-building. A timely reminder: metrics alone cannot capture the real value of data work.

#OpenScience #DataCitation #ResearchEvaluation #ResponsibleMetrics #Scientometrics

Where do bibliometricians come from? 🤔 A new international study suggests a simple answer: mostly from academic libraries. Around 60% of people doing bibliometric work at universities are based there.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515261417634

The catch? Over 70% say they never had formal training in bibliometrics. People simply grow into the role while working with databases, indicators and research analytics.

#bibliometrics #scientometrics #researchmetrics #responsiblemetrics #openscience

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

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