The value of bibliometric visualizations Bibliometric visualizations are often presented as powerful tools for identifying the key patterns in large bibliometric data sets. However, not everyone is convinced of their value.
The relationship between science and technology There is a recurrent debate about how useful science is for technological innovation. However, science is heterogenous, and some types of scientific outputs may contribute disproportionately to technology.
DARPA is one of many examples of how the entrepreneurial state makes high-risk investments and creates markets. DARPA is often referred to when it comes to funding for missions. It is unique and differs in many ways from traditional research agencies. This blog post illuminates some of its particularities; some inspiring, others just interesting, and again others not so pretty.
Sometimes, bringing home a message requires a more visual approach. That’s why recently, we teamed up with a graphic designer to create an infographic on the h -index – or rather, on the reasons why not to use the h -index.
Previous posts on the Strategy Evaluation Protocol 2021-2027 describe the criteria and aspects and the process and responsibilities. Asking to judge research units on their own merits and putting the responsibility for the evaluation with the research organisations proves quite a challenge. Evaluation might not always happen according to protocol, yet the process itself offers opportunities to reflect and define. And as such it has value.
Personal motivation and information on Train 2 Wind Completing a PhD as member of the Train 2 Wind ITN (Innovative Training Network) combines several of my interests, as it allows me to study scientific collaboration in an applied research setting as part of an international research consortium that trains PhD graduates funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action.
This article is an updated version of the webinar report in the ISSI Newsletter (#63, volume 16, number 3). Introduction In this post, we summarize the webinar series “Doing science in times of crisis: Science studies perspectives on COVID-19” and introduce the speakers and presentations. The webinar is embedded into a broaderresearch line on COVID-19 atCWTS.
This blogpost is a follow-up of the post by Ed Noyons Going back to normal?, published almost a year ago. Back then, he discussed the impact of COVID-19 on work conditions and proposed the idea of rethinking all the commuting we were doing in ‘normal' times.
The course “Visualising Science Using VOSviewer” VOSviewer was developed to construct various networks based on scientific literature. One type of maps is co-occurrence networks of essential terms. They provide an overview of the topics in the publications. Other networks are bibliometric; they are based on co-authorship or citations.
In a previous post the SEP 2021-2027 was introduced. As a reminder: the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) share the responsibility for the evaluation of all academic research units. According to the SEP 2021-2027, research units are evaluated in the light of their context, aims and strategy.
A recent item in Nature News reports “Hundreds of ‘predatory’ journals indexed on leading scholarly database” , sub-headed “[…] the analysis highlights how poor-quality science is infiltrating literature.” A year before, a group of leading scholars and publishers already warned in a comment in Nature, "So far, disparate attempts to address predatory publishing have been unable to control this ever-multiplying problem.