What lies ahead for research assessment reforms in Europe? Alex Rushforth reflects on a recent announcement by the Council of the European Union to push ahead with an agreement on research assessment reforms across its member states. Alex Rushforth • July 14, 2022
The growth of open peer review The closed nature of the traditional journal peer review system is often criticized. Over the past two decades, significant efforts have been made to make peer review more open. Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck use data from Crossref to analyze the growth of open peer review. Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck • July 06, 2022
Bibliometrics in press or the representation of indicators in the Italian news The use of bibliometric indicators such as the h-index or the journal impact factor is not limited to academia: from time to time, they make it into the news as well. Our author studied Italian news articles and found that they are used in quite different contexts and cover a variety of functions. Eugenio Petrovich • April 13, 2022
Do research priorities for mental health actually reflect the goal of fostering well-being? Do mental health research priorities reflect societal needs? This post explores the landscape of mental health research and introduces an interactive visualization that allows to explore research portfolios of specific countries, funders and organisations. Wouter van de Klippe, Alfredo Yegros, Tim Willemse and Ismael Rafols • March 30, 2022
Seven Guiding Principles for Open Research Information What should research organisations consider when creating and acquiring services to manage research information? Magchiel Bijsterbosch, Alastair Dunning, Darco Jansen, Max Haring, Sarah de Rijcke and Maurice Vanderfeesten • March 16, 2022
Responsible metrics for societal value of scientific research What does responsible research evaluation look like when it comes to societal value? This blog post provides four practical recommendations. Laurens Hessels, Leonie van Drooge, Tjitske Holtrop and Rodrigo Costas • March 10, 2022
Building knowledge infrastructure to support research assessment reforms: Dispatches from the Dutch Recognition and Rewards Festival 2022 In this blog post we reflect on knowledge infrastructures currently emerging to support organizations that are pursuing research assessment reforms, and call on sociologists of science and research evaluation researchers to study and contribute to these unfolding developments. Alex Rushforth, Marta Sienkiewicz and Sarah de Rijcke • February 23, 2022
A first step in quantifying disagreement across science Disagreement is ubiquitous in science and maybe even necessary for progress. We leverage recent advances in data to develop a method for quantifying disagreement, revealing the complexity of disagreement across science. Wout Lamers, Kevin Boyack, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman and Dakota Murray • January 19, 2022
Priority-2030: the New Excellence Initiative from Russia Dmitry Kochetkov is PhD candidate at CWTS. In this post, he gives an update on Priority-2030, a new excellence initiative in the Russian higher education sector. He also makes some reflections on the role of this experience in the global context of higher education reform. Dmitry Kochetkov • January 17, 2022
