Developing an Open Science Readiness Assessment Framework for the SEP Developing long-term OS policies and roadmaps can be a daunting task for research units. This blog post proposes to develop an Open Science Readiness Assessment Framework tool, aligned with the Dutch ...

In today's new blog post, Louise Bezuidenhout proposes the development of an #OpenScience Readiness Assessment Framework tool in line with the Dutch Strategy Evaluation Protocol to support research units in the long-term implementation of OS.

👇 Read it now www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/dev...

📣 New research seminar: @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social and @hughshanahan.bsky.social will give a talk on 'Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures'.

🎧 Make sure to join!

📅 Friday, 17/4/2026 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST)
📌 Online & in person at CWTS

Metric-driven research systems tend to persist because governance structures often matter more than metrics themselves.

Our latest blog post by @eleonoradagiene.bsky.social, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Guus Dix & @lariviev.bsky.social tackles this issue through the Lithuanian case 🇱🇹

👇 Read it now

🎓 Last week, Dr. Verena Weimer successfully defended her PhD thesis at Leiden University. She investigated the role of teaching within the academic recognition and reward system.
Congratulations! 👏🌟
💡More about Verena's research 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
@leidensocial.bsky.social

ORION dashboard: bringing open research data within reach The ORION dashboard enables easy exploration of CWTS OpenAlex data on BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL que...

🌐 In our new blog post, Juan Pablo Bascur introduces the ORION Dashboard: a tool that makes #openresearchdata accessible, interactive, and easy to explore 👩‍💻.

🔎 Discover the blog post here 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ori...

🏛️ Last week, Andy Stirling visited CWTS to mark the start of his visiting professorship. He stayed for four days full of presentations and meetings, including a research lab on multicriteria mapping (MCM) and a keynote on 'Opening up and closing down'. Looking forward to this collaboration!

Science superpower(s) and science diplomacy This talk uses large-scale bibliometric evidence to rethink what it means to be a scientific superpower in the twenty-first century. It moves beyond traditional input and output indicators to foregrou...

📣 In our next research seminar, @crsugimoto.bsky.social from Georgia Institute of Technology will talk about 'Science superpower(s) and science diplomacy'.

🎧 Make sure to join!

📅 Friday this week, 20/3/2026 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET)
📌 Online & in person at CWTS

Fully agree with Lokman Meho that the bibliometric community needs to seriously reflect on the way research integrity problems affect bibliometric statistics. Ongoing AI developments will only increase the urgency of this.

This issue requires more attention in the bibliometric community.

When Impact Signals Become Noisy: RI² as an Early Warning Framework for University Rankings As publication and citation signals face structural distortion, performance metrics require contextual interpretation. This essay introduces RI² as a diagnostic overlay to support more cautious and go...

In today's new blog post, Lokman Meho introduces RI²: a diagnostic overlay to support more cautious and governance-aware reading of university rankings.

👇 Read about it now on our blog

Very much looking forward to contributing to this webinar, and delighted to share the stage with two great colleagues, @katiecorker.bsky.social and Kathleen Shearer!

My contribution will be about @barcelonadori.bsky.social.

@cwtsnl.bsky.social

The global map of science according to EU funding In this blog post, we report a global funding landscape created using semantic relations of all EU R&I Framework Programme grants that helps locate regions, organisations and funders in the disciplina...

🗺️ Adrià Plazas, Nicandro Bovenzi, Nicolau Duran, Enric Fuster and Ismael Rafols offer a new way of visualising the global funding landscape by mapping 82,000 EU research and innovation grants using semantic analysis rather than publication citations.

👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the...

RoRI welcomes ZonMw and the British Academy as Core Partners - Research on Research We are pleased to announce two new Core Partners: ZonMw, the Dutch Organisation for knowledge and innovation in health, healthcare […]

We are pleased to announce two new Core Partners: ZonMw, the Dutch Organisation for knowledge and innovation in health and well-being, and @britishacademy.bsky.social, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences: researchonresearch.org/rori-welcome...

This is a great paper by Carl Bergstrom and Kevin Gross.

I have offered some reflections on the paper in @bionieuws.bsky.social (in Dutch) bionieuws.nl/vicieuze-cir....

I think we may need more radical solutions than the ones suggested by the authors!

@cwtsnl.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social

My first piece on Leiden Madtrics comes out from a triple joy:

1. Joy of reading a thought-provoking book and listening to the presentation from @samuelmoore.org

2. Joy of discussing with others who actually care the research commons

3. Joy of writing together with Tanya, a PhD colleague at CWTS

Reclaiming the scholarly ecosystem: Reflections on the first CWTS research seminar of 2026 In the first research seminar at CWTS of 2026, Samuel Moore argued that Open Access publishing took the wrong path and proposed alternatives with a new ‘commons’ approach. As PhD candidates studying s...

🆕 New blog post: @realjoonha.bsky.social and Tanya Lee reflect on the CWTS research seminar with @samuelmoore.org earlier this year and expand Moore's view on Open Access publishing to broader research infrastructure and culture.

www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/rec...

Talk by Daniel Hook at CWTS

Very impressed by @dwh.bsky.social's talk today at @cwtsnl.bsky.social about AI developments and their implications for the science system.

Daniel is a true though leader in this area. The depth of his thinking about AI is amazing.

@digital-science.com

📢 New RoRI Working Paper: Does targeted research funding reshape research landscapes?

New RoRI evidence from Norway and Switzerland suggests shifts in research topics are gradual - and similar under both targeted and non-targeted funding: researchonresearch.org/does-targete...

Knowing the ocean means living with uncertainty As sea levels rise and climate change speeds up, knowledge about the ocean becomes increasingly important. But how is this knowledge being created and how can we use it best to prepare for the future?...

🌊 How is our knowledge of the oceans being created? To answer this question, Jackie Ashkin, PhD candidate at CWTS, studies the work of ocean scientists from up close. In this news item, she tells us more and shares surprising insights from ocean science.

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...

Peer Review at the Crossroads Peer review has long been regarded as a cornerstone of scholarly communication, ensuring high quality and credibility of published research. Although academic journals trace their origins back three ...

New paper out: "Peer Review at the Crossroads"

I analyzed 4 peer review models from traditional gatekeeping to Publish-Review-Curate. Key finding: no single model is ideal, but PRC shows promise for transparency & accessibility.

Open access: doi.org/10.1002/leap...

#PeerReview #OpenScience #STS

🌌 Today, ORION was launched, an initiative to bring together Open Research Information (ORI) resources in a cloud-based solution. CWTS is involved with multiple colleagues, including our data science team.

💻 Check out the initiative's website and blog post! 👇

Looking forward to the next edition of the CWTS VOSviewer course. Registration is open now!

Really excited about the coordinated developments in the Netherlands to implement the commitments in Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

Ana Ranitovic, chair of our national working group, has written a post summarizing progress we are making in the Netherlands.

@cwtsnl.bsky.social

Visualizing Science Using VOSviewer VOSviewer, developed at Leiden University’s Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), is a highly popular software tool for mapping and visualizing science. The course Visualizing Science Usin...

🚀 The next edition of our VOSviewer course is coming up! Are you planning to join?

📅 16 June – 18 June 2026
🕑 13.30 to 17.30 CET

🔗 More information and registration: 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/courses/s...

@neesjanvaneck @LudoWaltman

Looking ahead to 2026: key priorities of the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network In late 2025, the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network met in Leiden to reflect and set priorities for 2026. This blog outlines those priorities and highlights how the growing network of universi...

📌 What are the key priority themes for the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network in 2026?
In this 🆕 blog, Ana Ranitovic outlines priorities like aligning CRIS systems with open principles and promoting open data in rankings.

👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/loo...

@barcelonadori.bsky.social

Doing open research is more than just knowing how. Changing research culture and sustaining open infrastructures are crucial too. Presenter: Dr Kathleen Gregory from Leiden University. As a social science researcher working in scholarly and science communication, Kathleen’s research focuses on scholarly...

Kathleen Gregory will deliver the closing keynote at Open Research Week 2026, titled 'Doing open research is more than just knowing how. Changing research culture and sustaining open infrastructures are crucial too.'

🗓 Fri 6 March 2026 |⏰11.00–12.00 CET
🔗 Register: libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4465365

Recognising and rewarding of open science in HR-policy

www.openscience.nl/en/recognisi...

This post discusses efforts Dutch institutions are making to strengthen the way they recognize and reward open science.

I like the 'Room for every PhD Candidate' initiative at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social.

Goed stuk over het wetenschappelijk publicatiesysteem.

Mijn voorstel is om het systeem op de schop te gooien: "niet eerst op journals wachten voordat zij de kwaliteit beoordelen, maar gelijk publiceren en vervolgens in alle openheid de peerreview doen"

#PublishReviewCurate

@cwtsnl.bsky.social

MetaROR’s approach to Crossref DOI registration

Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - MetaROR’s approach

doi.org/10.64000/vfe...

Together with @andre-brasil.bsky.social I just published this blog post about @crossref.bsky.social DOI registration practices for @metaror.bsky.social.

Resilience in Times of Crisis: Strengthening Open Science Against Geopolitical Pressures How can open science be resilient in the face of geopolitical pressures? Drawing on findings from a recent workshop, we suggest four discussion points that need further consideration as funding agenci...

🌐 How can open science be resilient in the face of geopolitical pressures? @kathleen-gregory.bsky.social and @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social elaborate on four discussion points coming out of a recent workshop discussing this.

👇 Read their blog post now on Leiden Madtrics

Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users—in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. Currently, we a...

📣 In our next research seminar, our colleague @altibel.bsky.social will give a presentation titled 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia'.

🎧 Make sure to join!

📅 Friday this week, 6/2/2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET)
📌 Online

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...