Five key facts to consider when studying science on Wikipedia

The presence of science on Wikipedia is a recurrent research topic in the scientometric community. However, its full potential for the study of science-society relations has not yet been fully explored. These are some of the key facts to be considered when studying it.

Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado and Rodrigo Costas • January 10, 2023

Unlocking the frontiers of Scientometrics: CWTS Summer School 2022

The fourth CWTS Summer School took place from June 20 to July 1, 2022. Scientometric scholars from over 23 different countries representing an array of disciplinary backgrounds met online and in-person in Leiden to learn, share and network on scientometric methods.

Anna Leonard, Basil Mahfouz, Santiago Ruiz-Navas, Tereza Šímová, Verena Weimer and Qianqian Xie • August 11, 2022

Attention for science in step with policy? The case of school closures during COVID-19

The closing and opening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic caused much debate. How was scientific evidence used in the ensuing public discussion? Our authors searched for evidence in the news and on Twitter and looked at three countries in particular: the Netherlands, Spain, and South Africa.

Jonathan Dudek, François van Schalkwyk, Rodrigo Costas, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolás Robinson-García and Tina Nane • February 25, 2021

COVID-19 research in the news: Visualizing the sentiment and topics in science news about the pandemic

Every day news outlets around the world play a central role in disseminating the latest COVID-19 research. In this post, we discuss the impact of COVID-19 findings on the news by applying state-of-the-art sentiment analysis and present some interesting preliminary results, stay tuned!

Márcia R. Ferreira, Bijan Ranjbar-Sahraei and Rodrigo Costas • July 06, 2020

Monitoring the dissemination of COVID-19-related scientific publications in online media

Research around COVID-19 has experienced broad public interest, with new findings being distributed in various communication platforms. In this blog post we introduce a monitoring tool for exploring the social media reception of scientific publications on the pandemic.

Rodrigo Costas, Giovanni Colavizza, Jonathan Dudek and Zhichao Fang • June 23, 2020 • 1 comment

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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