To communicate scientific research, we need to confront motivated ignorance - LSE Impact The idea that ignorance is the outcome of a deficit of correct information is persistent, especially for academics working in an environment where learning and the acquisition of new knowledge are…

🗃️From the archive: "When societal ignorance is rational motivated ignorance, the solution cannot be ordinary forms of knowledge dissemination"

#SciComm #AcademicSky #PolSci

SEO Metrics for Enhanced Academic Research Visibility: A Comparative Study of Global and Country-Level Traffic - MetaROR

🔍 Academic search engine optimisation (A-SEO) vital for enhancing research visibility. Our latest evaluation is a study comparing four leading A-SEO tools.

Reviewers emphasize the topic's relevance but do point out the limitation of including only 2 publishers in the study.

👇 Read now on MetaROR

La iniciativa europea de ecosistemas digitales abiertos no es tan solo una ocurrencia más Europa siempre ha sido un debate inacabado entre identidad e influencia. Cuando miremos atrás en esta década, es probable que recordemos 2026 no sólo por nuevas guerras culturales o crisis económicas,...

"La iniciativa europea de ecosistemas digitales abiertos no es tan solo una ocurrencia más"
www.enriquedans.com/2026/01/la-i...

Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly CommunicationsLandscape Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, COAR  November 27, 2025  This report presents a brief overview of the socio-political landscape for scholarly communications and describes some of th…

Read our "Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly Communications Landscape" and discussion about how repositories can respond: coar-repositories.org/news-updates...

📊 The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 is online! 🎉 This time, we have released not one, but two editions: the Traditional Edition and the Open Edition. www.leidenranking.com

🌏 This paper has been a collaboration between Jingwen Zhang from Ningbo University, @eomalea.bsky.social from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Alysson Fernandes Mazoni from the University of Campinas, and @rodrigocostas.bsky.social and me from @cwtsnl.bsky.social.

Ready in Zenodo
The OpenAlex database in review
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On Oct 23, @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca and I will discuss history of research assessment infrastructure and its implications for equity, transparency, and inclusivity in #scholcomm. This is a bilingual, hybrid event, at #uOttawa. 1–2:30pm ET Register → uottawa-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #OAWeek

Conferencia de @eomalea.bsky.social sobre Lugares científicos: diseño y aplicación de métricas espaciales a nivel de revista #crecs2025

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

Research assessment: a round-up for early-career researchers Confused by research evaluation and its potential impact on career progression? Here are some pointers as to how things work in different parts of the world.

Research assessment: a round-up

Excellent survey of the assessment landscape by @hollyelse.bsky.social in @nature.com, including our recent work @rorinstitute.bsky.social with the Global Research Council.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@alexrushforth.bsky.social @prussianhippie.bsky.social

That is why we have multiple sources in Matilda and deduplicate to get abstracts and, more importantly, full-text indexing to achieve maximum discoverability. #openscience #openresearchinformation

La convocatoria para comunicaciones y posters #codi2026 se mantiene abierta hasta el 5 de octubre de 2025
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www.scimagoepi.com/codi/llamada...
@fima-ub.bsky.social
@ub.edu

[Read] Better Than a Google Search? Effectiveness of Generative AI Chatbots as Information Seeking Tools in Law, Health Sciences, and Library and Information Sciences papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Retracted articles in Wikidata (~22k) now visualized in Scholia: why they're cited and their impact on research. Egon Willighagen's presentation uses Retraction Watch data via the Crossref REST API.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17013354

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists.

As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this).

#sciencesky #academicsky #science

The “Network Society” moves in mysterious ways: 25 years in the reception of a core concept Abstract. The “Network Society” is an analytical concept developed by Manuel Castells to describe a new form of societal organization underpinned by microelectronics and based on information flows. Si...

Interesting article on the "Network Society" published in #QSS. A theory that I was interested in when I was a student. Just a minor issue, the authors say, "Manuel Castells was born in Catalonia." However, I believe it is an error. He was born in Hellín, Castilla-La Mancha.
doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

GAIDeT: a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing Transparency of AI use in academia matters for authors, editors, reviewers, readers and repository moderators. This blog post introduces GAIDeT, a taxonomy for the structured disclosure of Generative ...

📢 Transparency in AI use in academia is urgently needed. In this blog post, @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social, Natalia Tsybuliak, Jaime A. Texeira da Silva & @yanasychikova.bsky.social introduce GAIDeT - a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research.

www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai...

Scholarly Publishing Won’t Be Saved by Incremental Change We’re stuck in a moribund scholarly publishing ecosystem. Acts of refusal by academic researchers and faculty may be our only way out.

katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to have published messages without users' knowledge.

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Will Google Scholar survive the AI-powered bots? and AI-powered search tools? Time will tell.
wiki.ubc.ca/Google_Scholar

Note I cite Hannah's blogpost bsky.app/profile/thar...

Amplifying the News: An Analysis of the Factors Driving Republication and Facebook Engagement with News This study examines the factors that influence republishing, sharing, and engagement with news in a digital media environment. It does so using a sample of 69 stories about climate emergency prepar...

Huge thanks to my wonderful, interdisciplinary, international team: @inesengelmann.bsky.social @riedlinm.bsky.social @kimosman.bsky.social ‪@voddenlaura.bsky.social‬ @kathaesa.bsky.social Arjun Srinivas & @snurb.info

Read the full article (OA) here: doi.org/10.1080/1751...

#scicomm #envirocomm

Google search for "all you can eat buffet near me" with an "ai overview" of the results saying that you can use Google to search "all you can eat buffet near me" to find a buffet.

We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real

Did you know we’re in the process of creating and establishing a reporting guideline for bibliometric analysis? Items in the list are based on evidence from the literature and expert opinion and now we’re looking for pilot participants to test the guideline’s real-world usefulness in making… (1/2)

The peer-review crisis: how to fix an overloaded system Journals and funders are trying to boost the speed and effectiveness of review processes that are under strain.

Excellent news piece in @nature.com providing an overview of ongoing discussions about the organization of peer review in funding allocation and scientific publishing doi.org/10.1038/d415....

@rorinstitute.bsky.social @cwts.nl

Project "Scientific Fraud in Academic Publications" is looking for candidates for a predoctoral contract on bilbiometrics and research integrity. Trained in Information Science or other social disciplines. We offers four years, internships, academic career, and international projection. Córdoba ES.

Some of the data is now quoted in the news article and we're working on a blog post to share some more detailed analysis. For now, have a look at how the APCs of the 199 most popular journals of NIH authors in 2025 would not be covered by the proposed $2,000 and $3,000 caps.

La publicación de ‘papers’ fraudulentos en revistas científicas crece sin control: “Hay millones de dólares en juego” El mayor estudio que se ha hecho hasta la fecha apunta a una amplia red clandestina que se dedica a la producción de manuscritos de baja calidad, con datos falsificados, imágenes manipuladas, contenid...

Más sobre Integridad Cientifica en la prensa española 👇
gracias, Natalia Chientaroli bsky.app/profile/did:... @
bsky.app/profile/eldi...

#researchintegrity

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (v1.1, 2023) Final draft POSI 2.0 revisions - A request for public comment on the final draft of revisions to POSI The POSI Adopters are requesting feedback on the final draft of revisions to POSI with a deadline...

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure 2.0 has been revised by the posse and is open for comment until the end of August. Thoughts and comments welcome. openscholarlyinfrastructure.org