An update on the Scholars on Twitter dataset

In 2022, we published a dataset of Scholars on Twitter. This blog post introduces an update to this dataset and discusses some of the challenges with our data providers: Twitter, Crossref, and OpenAlex. These challenges made the original dataset and process obsolete and this update necessary.

Philippe Mongeon, Timothy D. Bowman, Rodrigo Costas and Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado • April 24, 2024

Doing science in times of crisis: Science studies perspectives on COVID-19 (1st & 2nd edition)

The webinar series "Doing science in times of crisis: Science studies perspectives on COVID-19" started on 20 May 2020 during the early stages of the pandemic. The goal of this event is to connect and showcase COVID-19 science studies research from institutions around the world.

Grischa Fraumann, Giovanni Colavizza, Ludo Waltman and Zohreh Zahedi • March 30, 2021

Bona Fide Journals - Creating a predatory-free academic publishing environment

Predatory journals pose a significant problem to academic publishing. In the past, a number of attempts have been made to identify them. This blog post presents a novel approach towards a predatory-free academic publishing landscape: Bona Fide Journals.

Leo Waaijers, Ludo Waltman, Saskia de Vries, Thed van Leeuwen and Nees Jan van Eck • March 02, 2021 • 3 comments

Structuring Natural Language Processing Contributions in the Open Research Knowledge Graph

Next-generation digital libraries like the Open Research Knowledge Graph are here! Catering to which, we announce a Shared Task that builds scholarly contributions-focused graphs over Natural Language Processing (NLP) articles. Want to build a machine learner, we provide the data--join us!

Jennifer D'Souza • September 17, 2020

Systematize information on journal policies and practices - A call to action

Recently the creators of Transpose and the Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies convened an online workshop on infrastructures that provide information on scholarly journals. In this blog post they look back at the workshop and discuss next steps.

Willem Halffman, Serge Horbach, Jessica Polka, Tony Ross-Hellauer and Ludo Waltman • August 31, 2020 • 2 comments

You couldn't attend the Altmetrics conference? Fear not! We recorded everything you missed

Our generous friends at TIB have created a service to watch all the Altmetrics conference and workshop videos. We are so lucky!

Bastian Drees, Grischa Fraumann and Isabella Peters • June 09, 2020

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