This is something I’ve been working on for the last three years: trying to understand how scientific collaborations “melt” when the world becomes both hotter and less connected

Geopolitics reshapes not only who collaborates in science 🚀 but who leads it.

From 2010 to 2023, 25,000+ Russian researchers contributed to climate change research.
But only 526 ever held leading roles in top-100 journals — most just once 👣

Key insight: Research topics are shifting, but English-translated journals average citations per article are nearly identical to Russian-language journals, suggesting they primarily serve a national audience. Would be glad to hear your thoughts (A full-text view-only version): rdcu.be/fdY1R

🔌 Climate change science is global (But scientific systems are not)
🔋 Our new paper "Melting flows: Russian climate change science in the global research landscape" in Climatic Change looks at how Russian climate research has evolved from 2010 under increasing geopolitical pressure
#metascience

In Russia, two anniversaries pass almost unnoticed: 10 years since the Paris Agreement #climatechange and 200 years since the Decembrist uprising, which called for constitutional during a moment of imperial transition. Even if their hopes were unmet, the intentions behind them are worth remembering

The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...

Due to the cupidity of Elsevier and the unethical ambition of the scientist - editor, the once excellent journal Science of the Total Environment is now a predatory junk publication.
🧪 #AcademicSky

Dear friends from #ScienceOfScience, @villumfonden.bsky.social has opened a call to study the outcomes of its Villum Experiment. Looks like a chance to advance our understanding of grants
Although I'm not based in Europe, I'm interested in connecting with a European PI who might be planning to apply

Great job! Thank you

The data analysis indicates that leading universities experienced sharper declines in mentioning Western partners than non-elite ones.

Before 2022, Russian universities routinely highlighted agreements with Western institutions and international organisations. After February 2022, such agreements virtually disappeared: new partnerships are now formed exclusively with “friendly” states (e.g., Malaysia, China, Iran, Uzbekistan).

Western ties sharply declined, especially among main universities. This shift shows how state control is redefining internationalisation and may weaken global research visibility #sciencediplomacy #softpower

🌍 Our new paper "Reordering international ties: Russian universities’ institutional responses to geopolitical tensions" in the International Journal of Educational Research shows how Russian universities have reordered international ties after 2022. Full text: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ldMg38nsw...

Sounds like a slap in the face to an Open Peer Review formalism

«Authors in USA, China, and India had the highest chance that a reviewer is a SCR(Same country reviewer)—30.27%, 26.59%, and 13.69%, respectively. Low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMIC) authors not from India had only a 2.66% chance of SCRs»

По мне, так странно давать линки прямо в подзаголовке постера, тогда уж лучше одну ссылку на сайт-визитку сделать, где будет всё компактно

Есть причины указывать на конференции vk вместо Bluesky?

I'm thrilled to be taking this on--it is such a pleasure to be able to enable exciting new research and learn about new ways researchers would like to use our data! I'm looking forward to seeing what impact we can make on the world of innovation, science policy, and scientometrics more broadly. 😇

Title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords from a paper about the peace building dimension of the ocean

“Sustainability & #peace are two basic conditions for people to live better & happier” write Ryabinin et al. As UN SDG 14 focuses on #ocean #sustainability, but not explicitly on peace, they advocate for “a peaceful ocean” to be added as the 8th outcome of the UN Ocean Decade doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...

I'm very proud to have worked on this paper and to see it published! Knowledge syntheses condense a wide range of works to a single publication, but we can also use them as starting points to identify a comprehensive body of research.

doi.org/10.17645/oas...

Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too Researchers studying research must avoid the temptation to get too stuck in the academic weeds.

‘Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too’. Good, thoughtful editorial in @nature.com on #Metascience2025 & the new Alliance

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

@helenpearson.bsky.social @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

GitHub - ikashnitsky/sjrdata: All scimagojr.com data wrapped for R All scimagojr.com data wrapped for R. Contribute to ikashnitsky/sjrdata development by creating an account on GitHub.

🤩 UPD {sjrdata} to 2024 data #rstats
github.com/ikashnitsky/...
In this update I revert back to downloading all the data yearly. This came out of a productive discussion with @hansonmark.bsky.social (🙌), in which he pointed out that SCImago group sometimes changes the data backwards in their updates

Just got back from an amazing week at #ISSI2025 in Yerevan, Armenia! I had the chance to present both a talk and a poster:
🕊️ Talk: Melting Science: Russian Climate Change Research in the Global Context
🧶 Poster: Stop, little pot! Are there too many scientometric studies?
Let’s keep in touch!

I had a lot of fun at #issi2025! So many fantastic young scientists trying to quantify how political, cultural, and personal forces shape science.

Hope, I'll be presenting at the ISSI 2025 Conference in Yerevan: Melting Science: Russian Climate Change Research in the Global Context
👋
If you're attending #ISSI2025, I’d be thrilled to see you there! Don't forget about our poster too: Stop, little pot! Are there too many scientometric studies?

MDPI? ? ?

Where there’s a will there’s a way: ChatGPT is used more for science in countries where it is prohibited Abstract. Regulating AI is a key societal challenge, but effective methods remain unclear. This study evaluates geographic restrictions on AI services, focusing on ChatGPT, which OpenAI blocks in seve...

Really glad that this is out! Fantastic collaboration with @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @innovation.bsky.social!

Key insight: Knowledge diffusion is nearly impossible to constrain—where there's a will, there's a way. From the atomic bomb to ChatGPT, determined minds always find a path.
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Geographical and disciplinary coverage of open access journals: OpenAlex, Scopus, and WoS This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the Web of Science (WoS). We used the Directory of Open Access Scholarly R...

🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE!
We explore the geographical & disciplinary coverage of #OpenAccess journals across #OpenAlex, #Scopus & #WoS.

📊 Key takeaway: OpenAlex offers broader OA coverage — but global imbalances persist.

👉 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#OpenAccess

starter pack to ratify the high seas treaty

This #StarterPack is for world leaders heading to NY for the first #BBNJPrepCom.

Suit? ✅ Pen? ✅ Octavia? ✅ Now bring the political will to ratify the #HighSeasTreaty before #UNOC3

Time to take the #BBNJ Treaty out of the box.

#RaceForRatification @highseasalliance.bsky.social

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Visualization of cuts to health research by house districts at scienceimpacts.org

Update via #SCIMaP now broken down by house districts

Our interdisciplinary team has expanded efforts to communicate the economic impacts of White House proposed cuts to health research.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

It started as a piece about geographic names changes, but it also reflects about metadata standards, what these mean for research, and how to overcome discrepancies. Data provision and accessability is more acute than ever