This was a joyful collaboration with @rhaunschild.bsky.social and @lutzb.bsky.social

Can generative AI effectively perform quality evaluation within social sciences? A case study in library and information science - Scientometrics Thus far, the usage of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has mainly been explored for content-based evaluations. Research quality evaluations and studies focusing on fields in the social scienc...

New Paper regarding quality evaluations using artificial intelligence: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#bibliometrics #researchevaluation

Very glad to see this collaborative work w/ Robin Haunschild and @lutzb.bsky.social published in Journal of Informetrics

"A study of gender and regional differences in scientific mobility and immobility among researchers identified as potentially talented"

Open Access here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...

Document type selection can change institutional rankings: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https://a #bibliometrics

Patrick Cramer speaking at the embassy.

People at the embassy listening

During my visit to the German Embassy in Brasília, I emphasized our commitment to deepen cooperation with Latin America, with Brazil as a key partner in science, innovation and climate research. I truly value the spirit of collaboration that drives this partnership.

Gutso, aber zu wenig

Pressefreiheit eingeschränkt - Medienberichte über US-Militär nur noch nach Freigabe durch Pentagon In den USA hat das Verteidigungsministerium die Pressefreiheit eingeschränkt. Das Pentagon erließ eine Richtlinie, wonach Berichte über das US-Militär nur noch veröffentlicht werden dürfen, wenn sie v...

Ich lasse das mal hier: In den USA müssen ab jetzt alle Presseartikel und TV-Sendungen über das Militär vorher dem Verteidigungs-, ich korrigiere, Kriegsministerium zur Freigabe vorgelegt werden.

Das US-Pentagon schränkt die Rechte der Presse ein Das US-Verteidigungsministerium führt neue Regeln für Journalisten ein. Sie müssen sich Berichte vorab genehmigen lassen. Der Washingtoner National Press Club sieht einen „direkten Angriff auf den una...

Unfassbar: Das Pentagon ordnet an, dass sich Medien den Inhalt ihrer Berichte künftig genehmigen lassen müssen.

Es ist dasselbe Land, das eins Watergate aufdeckte und Snowdens Enthüllungen veröffentliche.

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Last night, we continued a tradition that dates back to 1977 — the famous Kohl and Pinkel party! This year's theme was medieval, filled with knights, dragons and magicians! The night was filled with laughter, legend, and a new Kohl Queen! 🏹⚔️ Read more at: www.fkf.mpg.de/8759364/2025...

We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Raphaële Clément as the Director of our new Electrochemical Materials Department!! 🎉🔋 She’s a battery innovator using NMR magic to unlock greener energy. Welcome to the @maxplanck.de, Raphaële! Learn more at: www.fkf.mpg.de/8744352/2025...
📷 Photo credit: UCSB

We mourn the passing of Prof. Hans-Joachim Queisser (1931–2025), one of the founding directors of our institute. A pioneer of semiconductor physics and co-creator of the Shockley–Queisser limit, his vision shaped generations. We will remember him with deep gratitude. www.fkf.mpg.de/8744972/2025...

New special issue on "Open Large Language Models for Scientometrics": www.mdpi.com/journal/metr... #scientometrics #bibliometrics We are looking forward to high-quality submissions.

Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus - Scientometrics OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it...

Several #KB partners have collaborated on an analysis of #openalex data quality aspects (here in particular the completeness of references as a fundamental backbone for bibliometric databases), more contributions to follow! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Deadline extension for submissions to the 29th Annual STI-ENID Conference, which will take place in Bristol from 3–5 September 2025: The new deadline for submissions is now Monday, 14 April 2025.

The special track on Open Research Information at @stienid2025.bsky.social is open to submissions via the regular conference submission tool.

Max Planck Society offers a haven for top US researchers The Max Planck Society, Germany’s top research organisation, says that the country could benefit from the new United States administration’s incre...

"The Max Planck Society (MPG), Germany’s top research organisation, says that the country could benefit from the new US administration’s increasingly restrictive research policies, and is stepping up efforts to recruit elite US scientists and scholars".

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Robin Haunschild, Lutz Bornmann: Paper self-citation: An unexplored phenomenon https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.04324 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.04324

found cases where paper self-citations occur due to publisher-made highlights promoting and citing the paper. We analyzed the self-citing papers according to selected metadata. We observed accumulations of the number of self-citing papers [3/4 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324v1]

across publication years. We found a skewed distribution across countries, journals, authors, fields, and document types. Finally, we discuss the implications of paper self-citations for bibliometric indicators. [4/4 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04324v1]

How to use assignments of United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs) to scientific papers in research evaluation? The proposal of a gold standard combining assignments from different data providers

link.springer.com/co...

The 30th Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy takes place in Bergen, Norway October 29-31 this year. The Call for Abstracts is now out, and submissions open March 17th. Presentations and posters alike are welcome. Hope to see you there?

Excellence Maps v2 The web application visualizes the impact of papers published in several subject areas on researchers and other status groups.

We published an update of our excellence mapping at www.excellencemapping.net

Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? While thousands of papers cite themselves, the percentage that do so is relatively low. Haunschild & Bornmann/arXiv.org While using bibliometric techniques to measure how disruptive research pa…

Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? My latest for @retractionwatch.com: retractionwatch.com/2025/03/19/p...

@lutzb.bsky.social, @mollymking.bsky.social

Proposal of a gold standard combining different UN SDG assignments from different data providers: doi.org/10.1007/s111... @lutzb.bsky.social Many thanks to @clarivateag.bsky.social, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, and OSDG.ai for providing SDG assignments.

Does public policy and administration research influence governance? To what extent is academic expertise used in governance processes around the world? Do actors in the policy and public sector draw on research to improve their decision making? Are public administr…

Based on this paper, we have contributed a blog post:
evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/02/19/d...
#bibliometrics #altmetrics #policy

The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/evp/aop/ar...

The use of OpenAlex to produce meaningful bibliometric global overlay maps of science on the individual, institutional, and national levels The Social Systems Citations Theory (SSCT) is the most recent theory of citations integrating previous theories. It focuses on communications in science that are formally manifested as publications an...

How to use OpenAlex data to produce overlay maps journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Do you want to know how public policy and administration research expertise is used in policymaking? doi.org/10.1332/1744... #scientometrics #altmetrics Many thanks to @overton.io
for providing the policy data for the study with Kate Williams and @lutzb.bsky.social .