Today the CWTS Leiden Ranking and the INORMS More Than Our Rank initiative announce a new partnership, aimed at highlighting the accomplishments of universities beyond what is captured in university rankings. This blog post originally appeared on Leiden Madtrics and has been reposted here for redistribution and sharing purposes. The CWTS Leiden Ranking has always been a bit different from other university rankings.

Liam Bullingham and Nicola Wylie report on an event focusing on the individual signers of DORA. Let’s focus on people Recent discussion on DORA mostly concerns the 2,800 organisations (e.g. universities, funders or publishers) which have signed, not the 20,000 individuals. See positions like, ‘Why have Elsevier committed to Leiden but not DORA?’, ‘We as …

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Our 2022 Conference took place online on 5 and 12 October. If you missed it or want to re-watch a session you can do so on our Zenodo channel: https://zenodo.org/communities/lis-bibliometrics/  ‘Measuring What Matters’ Our conference theme aimed to explore responsible and values-driven uses of metric indicators in research assessment.

Dennis Donathan, a Research Assistant and Data Scientist for the Public Knowledge Project, discusses a recent study he conducted on Reddit users’ engagement with research outputs. His research showed that although Reddit is not typically the focus of altmetrics research, the platform can act as an informative and valuable tool in altmetrics research.

Robyn Price examines the data and methods of the PLOS Open Science Indicators dataset to reflect on the questions that institutions might need to ask themselves before looking to expand open research metrics As research organisations, funders and publishers pursue open research agendas amidst a broader ‘datafication’ of the sector, interest will likely only grow …

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Dr Alice Gibson considers how developments in open access publishing, including transformative agreements, have added to the complexity in equitable practices surrounding credit for authorship. Author matters Following the launch of Plan S in 2018, there has been increasing awareness and discussion of the meaning and status of the role of a corresponding author.

Applications to join the LIS Bibliometrics Committee are now open! We are looking for enthusiastic and committed individuals to join the LIS Bibliometrics Committee in the below positions.

It’s online, free and will host some great discussions on #MeasuringWhatMatters Claim your place here: LIS-Bibliometrics Conference 2022 Eventbrite Learn more here: LIS-Bibliometrics Conference 2022 Programme

Rachel Miles summarizes a recently published journal article that cautions researchers on the use of automated citation recommendation tools, which are designed to help academic authors cite literature in the writing phase of their research project while potentially skipping crucial steps of searching, reviewing, and appraising literature. In an increasingly competitive academic environment, researchers are understandably keen to find

The results of the seventh annual Responsible Metrics State of the Art survey are in! With a little delay on our usual schedule of publishing, please find below the summary of the results of both the 2021 survey and some reflection on the trends since the survey was first begun by the LIS Bibliometrics community in 2015. Prior year survey results are also available. Response demographics A total of 91 responses to the 2021 survey were received.

Our 2022 conference on the theme of “Measuring what matters” will be held on 5 and 12 October 2022 . The Conference will be free, online and held over two half-days to make it as easy as possible to join us. We intend to record the Conference. You can view our 2021 recordings here. Please save the dates in your diary and look out for another announcement when booking is open.