Today CWTS released the Leiden Ranking 2025. We in fact released two editions of the ranking, the Traditional Edition and the Open Edition. The Leiden Ranking Traditional Edition is the name we use for the Leiden Ranking based on data from the Web of Science database. The Leiden Ranking Open Edition is the name of a new edition of the Leiden Ranking launched last year based on open data from the OpenAlex database.
When: 2 December 2025, 12:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. (online) Register here! Discover the diversity of participatory research in Berlin! We warmly invite you to the online launch of the Participatory Research (PR) Map – an interactive tool that showcases projects in which science and society collaborate.
Über das allmähliche Verfassen der Gedanken beim Schreiben ist schon viel gesagt und – ja -auch geschrieben worden.
Much has been said and written about the gradual formation of thoughts while writing.
The 2025 Lancet Countdown report has begun to acknowledge a critical, often-overlooked source of intelligence to build climate-resilient health systems: the health worker. By including testimonials from health workers alongside formal quantitative evidence, the Lancet cracks open a door, hinting at a world beyond globally standardized datasets. This is a necessary first step.
How vulnerable are we to the next Carrington Event?
Here is everything that the new Lancet Countdown says about the value and significance of indigenous and other forms of local knowledge, as well as their value for community-led action to respond to the impacts of climate change on health.
The European Economic Area is one of the best use cases for (semantic) data integration: the many different languages, legislations, rules and systems must be or become interoperable! On October 8 and 9, 2025, I attended the 3rd European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics (ENDORSE) in the European Commission’s building Charlemagne in Brussels, Belgium.
In a recent post on Bluesky, where Richard Morey reflects on a paper he published with Clintin Davis-Stober that points out concerns with the p-curve method (Morey & Davis-Stober, 2025), he writes: Also, I think people should stop using forensic meta-analytic techniques that have not been adequately vetted by experts in statistics.
This month’s news includes: Research software community news, including the Nature commentary, “Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it” Funding opportunities, including the DisCouRSE Flexible Fund Towards coordinated international policy approaches to support research software: Highlights from the OECD workshop Actionable FAIR4RS Task Force Updates: Bhavesh Patel Presents at USRSE’25 Opportunities to get involved
Die Berlin University Alliance – der Exzellenzverbund von Freier Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technischer Universität Berlin und Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin – hat im Herbst 2023 ein Leitbild für offene Wissenschaft verabschiedet. Nun folgt ein weiteres Dokument, in dem die Umsetzung des Leitbilds näher spezifiziert wird.