Do you remember your first contribution to open source?Or are you still waiting to make it? Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating.When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSci Slack,people recalled the challenges and mistakes they made, but mostly how much they learned from and enjoyed that experience.For open source maintainers, contributions can also lead to mixed feelings,as

Dr Jonathan Evans and I will be presenting a joint paper at the Digital Humanities Congress 2024 in Sheffield.

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) hosted their fifth Scientometrics Summer School (CS ³ ) from September 18-26, 2023 in Leiden, the Netherlands. CS ³ turns theoretical ideas into hands-on research by engaging scientometrics graduate students with data, methods, and techniques used in the field. ScholCommLab members Chantal Ripp, Maddie Hare, Leigh-Ann Butler, and Rémi Toupin attended this year’s event.

Over the last few months, ScholCommLab members took part in over six conferences, including the: International Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023), International Communication Association Conference (ICA 2023), and Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community Conference (BRIC 2023). In this blog post, we’re sharing highlights from each event.

By Alice Fleerackers, with input from Yao-Hua Law, Mario Malički, Luisa Massarani, Chelsea Ratcliff, and François van Schalkwyk The annual Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI) offers opportunities for interdisciplinary and international teams to come together to pursue complex projects related to a common theme.

Honoured to have been invited as keynote speaker, along esteemed colleagues Zu Dominiak and Damon Herd.

I will be presenting on Friday 8th September, 2023 with the title “Making Gatekeeping Transparent: Insights from a Decade of Trying Open Peer Review”.

The workshop will be held in person in conjunction with the Hypertext 2023 conference. I share the programe here.

This blog post is the last of a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at the Swiss Year of Scientometrics lecture and workshop series at ETH Zurich on June 7, 2023. Responsible use of metrics As a last topic, I want to address a very important area that I think for a very long time has been ignored by the scientometric community—namely the use of the metrics that it

This blog post is the third in a four part series based on the keynote presentation by Stefanie Haustein at the Swiss Year of Scientometrics lecture and workshop series at ETH Zurich on June 7, 2023.