Kompetenznetzwerk Bibliometrie/Geschäftsstelle

"We are seeing readily available data assets, such as... the UK Biobank, NHANES, and many other databases, being weaponized to generate manuscripts with minimal scholarly value and utility"

Just published in College & Research Libraries News! 🎉 “Tangled Terms: How We Talk About Transformative Agreements”: doi.org/10.5860/crln.... We argue for more caution with the language used when talking about the "value" of TAs.

Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Today we're starting ORION, an effort to coordinate making #openresearchinformation resources available, with an initial focus on Google BigQuery. We are keen to coordinate with all who are interested in supporting a community effort towards availability and reusability!
doi.org/10.54900/2pn...

Join our next KB Open Research Seminar on novelty metrics with Prof. Sotaro Shibayama from Tokyo University.

Validation of novelty metrics

March 4 (Wednesday), 1-2pm (CET).
Register here: tinyurl.com/dce2kepd.

Article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sharing the load: Building a collective to support open research information online Can we share resources and burdens to make available key open research information resources in actionable and connectable form in the cloud? Through sharing processes and systems, is it possible, ove...

Our KB partner Najko Jahn from SUB Göttingen participates in an open science initiative dedicated to building a shared infrastructure based on Google BigQuery:
upstream.force11.org/sharing-the-...
orion-dbs.community

No shortcuts to research information citizenship - Digital Science Being open isn't enough - true "research information citizenship" requires a robust, genuinely open research infrastructure.

Interesting blog post by Simon Porter (Digital Science) on the state of open science and the problem of harvested metadata in OpenAlex: www.digital-science.com/blog/2026/02...

Last year, the KB presented the initial OPENBIB data release, which contains selected and curated metadata from OpenAlex. See this new blog post tinyurl.com/58zmb79z for an updated data release based on the OAL snapshot from July 25. This data release also features a KB author disambiguation system.

In a new KB Open Research Seminar on #sciencemaps, Dr Ismael Rafols, senior researcher at CWTS and Univ. Politec. València, will give a talk on:
Towards multiple ontologies in science mapping.
January 21th, 2-3pm (CET). Register here: tinyurl.com/nvb9wkbj.

Citation accuracy, citation noise, and citation bias: A foundation of citation analysis - MetaROR

Our latest article argues that citation noise "represents an [...] underexplored challenge in citation analysis".

Reviewers appreciate the fresh/innovative approach but question its conceptual underpinning: can citation accuracy be determined objectively?

👇 Read the assessment, reviews & full text

Shen, Z., Haunschild, R., & Bornmann, L. (2025). Document types make the difference. Journal of Informetrics, 19(4), 101738. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101738

The recent debate in JoI highlights a key issue often ignored in evaluation: doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... When all publication types are counted, normalized #metrics become inconsistent and misleading. But once we restrict the analysis to articles and reviews, correlations rise sharply. #bibliometrics

Decreasing affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex – Scholarly Communication Analytics This blog post examines the decrease in affiliation metadata coverage in OpenAlex. An analysis of over 13 million articles published by major commercial publishers between 2018 and 2025 suggests that ...

There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata.

subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...

Yuret, T. (2026). Assessing scientific output through self-evaluation: Evidence from four social science fields. Journal of Informetrics, 20(1), 101757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101757

What do researchers see as their best work? A Journal of Informetrics study (2,300+ social scientists, 42 countries) shows only ~40% of self-identified top papers are top-cited. 17% aren’t in Scopus at all. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.jo... #Bibliometrics #ResearchAssessment #SciencePolicy #Citations

UKRI chief pledges shift from short-termism in research funding - Research Professional News In RPN interview, Ian Chapman heralds specialisation drive for UK universities via “continuity and commitment”

· #AcademicSky ·
The chief executive of UKRI has said the agency will move away from “transactional” grant funding and encourage universities to specialise by committing to long-term strategic relationships with them, reports @robinbisson.bsky.social via @resprofnews.bsky.social

Save the date! On Dec 11 our 'Reorganization of Knowledge Practices' Colloquium welcomes @keanbirch.bsky.social at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social who will talk about the political economy of digital artefacts. Join us live or online: t1p.de/lu554

Delighted to share this very important article with sobering results relevant for all migration researchers worldwide.

Lead by @carrasco-jig.bsky.social, together with @mariegodin.bsky.social, @cvar-sil.bsky.social and yours truly.

Open Access here:
doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Next KB Open Research Seminar in our Visualization Series:

Mathieu Jacomy, PhD,

Assistant Professor at Aalborg Universitet and
Co-Creator of Gephi and Hyphe

will give a talk on the topic: "How to read network maps"
on December 17, 3–4 p.m. CET
Register here: tinyurl.com/mvbajud9

RMZ Jour fixe/ The (anti)social replication of replication: exploring how replication moves across epistemic communities Sheena F. Bartscherer (RMZ, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Sven Ulpts (Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark), Bart Penders (School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Netherlands), Sarahanne Field (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands)

We're excited for our last Jour Fixe this year in which S. Bartscherer, S. Ulpts, B. Penders & S. Field present their work on "The (anti)social replication of replication"
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de...
10.12.25, 11:00 CEST, join in person/ via zoom!
@ibi-hu.bsky.social

In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2) - The Scholarly Kitchen An invitation to embrace pluralism and diversity in scholarly communication models -- rather than attempting to impose a single solution.

I guess this is what you get when you value "diversity in profit margins" rather than diversity in authorship and its origin, multilingualism and disciplinary and thematic diversity scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/18/a...

On 8 Dec, #OpenAIRE CEO Natalia Manola joins the side event “From Metrics to Meaning” at #IAPConference2025, organised by #CoARA, ALLEA & GYA, to explore how reform is shaping a more open & responsible research culture.

🔗 shorturl.at/0JUuW

Open science can also mean to make bibliographic metadata openly available. In a new open-bibliometrics post, Paul Donner (DZHW) shows that GROBID can extract many references often with surprisingly good results — but better, domain-specific training data will be needed. tinyurl.com/ys46cram

The Matilda Effect in Soviet scientometrics? Nalimov, Mulchenko, and the origins of Naukometriya Abstract. This article revisits the early history of Soviet scientometrics, examining the role of Zinaida Mulchenko in writing Naukometriya – the foundational book in this field. While Vasily V. Nalim...

This article revisits the early history of Soviet scientometrics, examining the role of Zinaida Mulchenko in writing Naukometriya... Mulchenko’s diminished positionality as the co-author of the book can be understood through the lens of the Matilda Effect direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

We have finally started minting DOIs for our blog using Rogue Scholar (docs.rogue-scholar.org) and migrated from Distill to Quarto.

The first post analyses the reference coverage between #openalex and #semanticscholar using 37 million journal articles between 2015-23.

doi.org/10.59350/8t2...

Gezeigt wird ein (bibliometrisches) Netzwerk mit vielen Verbindungen zwischen Knoten, einige wenige sind hervorgehoben.

Interesse an Bibliometrie?

Kennt ihr schon die "Loseblattsammlung" aka. bibliometrische Quick Notes von unserm Kollegen @optykali.bsky.social?
Ein Blick lohnt sich.
Ihr findet das CC BY 4.0 lizenzierte Material hier:
bibliometrics-quick-notes.github.io

#bibliometrie #bibliometry #quicknotes #LIS

11 broad categories of peer review comments on bibliometric studies

I just reviewed the article 'Implicit reporting standards in bibliometric research: what can reviewers' comments tell us about reporting completeness?' by @dimitystephen.bsky.social and colleagues. I like the article a lot!

Article: arxiv.org/abs/2508.162...

Review: prereview.org/reviews/1739...

Is academic freedom associated with strong science? Evidence from a cross-national time-series analysis Academic freedom is a widely discussed concept recognized as a key element of the academic system. While the intrinsic value of academic freedom is wi…

An analysis based on a global panel dataset covering 119 countries from 1996 to 2021 shows that academic freedom at the country level is associated with the citation impact of future papers published by researchers from that country
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unfortunately this seminar is cancelled due to illness. We are looking for an alternative date.

Join our next Open Research Seminar with Dr. Annett Hoppe, PostDoc at Working Group Visual Analytics, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library (TIB):
"GROBI: Open-Source Tools for Accessible Bibliometric Analysis". October 14, 2–3 p.m.
Register: tinyurl.com/5pm8hvk8

Apologies for a small mistake: The seminar takes place on 2-3 pm (CEST)

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

First insights into address unification in OpenAlex, WoS & Scopus.
Findings: OpenAlex holds more unique addresses, but fewer item–address combinations. The share of addresses unified by our KB approach is lower than in proprietary DBs—yet promising & likely to improve. tinyurl.com/mv2xdtrc