The 2022 CWTS Summer School provided a thorough introduction to scientometrics. First, we defined scientometrics. We then discussed major scientometric data sources, their strengths and limitations, including Web of Science, Scopus, and Dimensions as well as explored cutting edge tools available to scientometricians, including Elsevier’s International Center for the Study of Research Lab (ICSR) and Dimensions on Google Big Query.

More than a year ago, Ginny Hendricks, Director of Member &

Our lab is growing! In our Three Questions series, we’re profiling each of our members and the amazing work they’re doing. Today’s post features Natascha Chtena, a postdoctoral fellow and research coordinator for the Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science in a Post-Pandemic World (VOICES) project at the ScholCommLab.

Background: Russian Academic Excellence Project 5top100 The Russian Academic Excellence Project 5top100 is a Russian excellence initiative in higher education that ran from 2013 to 2020. The aim of the initiative was to place five Russian universities in the top 100 of global university rankings. The goal was not achieved; in political and academic discourses, there are conflicting assessments of the results of the project.

In this Short Analysis, Jefferson Pooley is reviewing/introducing PubPub, a web-based publishing platform hosted by a nonprofit, the Knowledge Futures Group (KFG)

Since 2020, twelve organizations signed on to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). It’s not a meagre list of organizations either: CrossRef, ROR, Europe PMC, and many more. Today, Liberate Science joins the POSI posse (their words) with our initial evaluation of ResearchEquals.

This is a transcript of the interview with Kaitlin Thaney (Season 2, Episode 9). Listen to the podcast on Anchor. The transcript is slightly edited for readability and available under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Chris Hartgerink: Hello and welcome to the final episode of the second season of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm your host, Chris Hartgerink.

In this contribution, Irene Broer & Nataliia Sokolovska describe what inspired them to create their own taxonomy of advisory formats and dive into the characteristics of advisory organizations and how they can be systematized.

This is a transcript of the interview with Meng Liu and Shilaan Alzahawi from the FORRT project (Season 2, Episode 8). Listen to the podcast on Anchor. The transcript is slightly edited for readability and available under a CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Chris Hartgerink: Welcome back to the second season of the Open Update. For Liberate Science, I'm your host Chris Hartgerink.

In June 2022, the Council of the European Union gave the green light for a European Agreement on research assessment reforms to go ahead. Plans for this initiative were proposed in a European Commission scoping report in 2021.