Universities in the Leiden Ranking 2023 As Figure 1 shows, the number of universities in the Leiden Ranking keeps increasing. Like in the last three editions of the ranking, a university needs to have at least 800 fractionally counted publications in the most recent four-year time window to be included in the ranking. This year 1411 universities meet this criterion, 93 more than last year and 235 more than in 2020.

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00] Chris Hartgerink: Hi, and welcome to another episode of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm Chris Hartgerink, joined by my co-host Sarahanne Field. [00:00:07] Sarahanne Field: Hey there.

At university, I was trained to have ideas — to see gaps in between the individual pieces of knowledge, and to seize them as opportunities to move the needle forward. Ideas are a currency, yet executing on those ideas feels undervalued. I am grateful for the years I spent training that kind of creativity. It still brings me joy to have or learn about ideas that make me shift my perspective.

This hands-on guide helps you setting up an RSS reader and build a personalized paper feed from your favorite journals.

In our ongoing process of intentionally designing business practices, we are today introducing our equipment policy. We learned accumulating things is even easier as an organization than it is as an individual. In a phase of scaling up, new equipment is purchased, but when scaling down we are left with those physical remains.

Felipe Romero presented his work - “The conceptual origins of metascience: Fashion or revolution?” - in The Popper Seminar at the London School of Economics on 30th May 2023. Here, I highlight a few points that he raised and provide some comments along the way. ::: {#youtube2-AKWCCdK-jgc .youtube-wrap attrs=“{"videoId":"AKWCCdK-jgc","startTime":null,"endTime":null}” component-name=“Youtube2ToDOM”} Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.

Im Rahmen der 16. Berliner Open-Access-Konferenz der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, die aktuell unter dem Titel “Together for Transformation” Berlin stattfindet, wurden gestern Leitlinien von Bund und Ländern zu Open Access vorgestellt. Diese Leitlinien wurden von der Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK) im März verabschiedet. Auf der Webseite der KMK findet sich eine knappe Pressemitteilung zu dem Papier.

Abstract I discuss Van Drimmelen’s (2023) Metascience2023 presentation on researchers’ decision making during the research process.

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. [00:00:00] Chris Hartgerink: Hi, and welcome to the Open Update. We're here for another episode. For Liberate Science, I'm Chris Hartgerink, joined by my lovely co-host, Sarahanne Field.

💡 This is a post in a series of Stories From My PhD. For background on this series, read the announcement post. Reading my emails from when I started my PhD, I see that I was full of a different kind of energy. Naive energy, sure, but also unencumbered by how things “were supposed to happen” or the ‘just’ in the “just the way things are.” I recently discovered an email that I received only two months into my PhD.