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  Ukrainian universities have finally made it into the @cwts@social.cwts.nl #LeidenRanking 2026 Open Edition! 🎓18 universities with the Core Publications filter, or 23 without it. 👉 https://open.leidenranking.com/ranking/2026/list Another milestone: from 2027, the ranking will rely entirely on #OpenAlex, leaving Web of Science behind! 👏 #OpenAlex #OpenScience #Scientometrics #Ukraine #Universities

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  Oh! I finally got to see a comic in Scientometrics! 😄 :doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05780-1 The authors took the famous #xkcd joke about the "hierarchy of sciences" and decided to test whether sciences can really be arranged so neatly in a single line. It turns out there is no clear ladder from "soft" to "hard" sciences, and some disciplines that seem far apart are actually surprisingly similar. #Scientometrics #ScienceOfScienc...

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  Our GAIDeT poster is on display today at #STI2026 in Antwerp! We explore a simple question: what if information about generative AI use in research became structured, machine-readable metadata? 📄 Conference paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22670373 📌 Poster: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22670653 #STI2026 #Scientometrics #ResearchEvaluation #AI #OpenScience #GenAI #GenerativeAI

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  I presented some of my recent work at the IRIT Research Seminar – from strange bibliometric patterns and GenAI to research integrity and research climate. 📌 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31734.56647 The main question: finding something wrong is one thing. What happens next? Detection needs interpretation. Correction needs institutions. Prevention requires understanding the environment. #ResearchIntegrity #Scientometrics #GenAI #ResearchEvaluation #bibliometrics

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  Lutz Bornmann asks a deceptively simple question: should research organizations sign #DORA, #CoARA, and similar initiatives if signing alone doesn't guarantee better research assessment? :doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101872 His key message is worth repeating: reform is not about replacing "bad metrics" with "good peer review." We need disciplinary sensitivity, professional evaluative bibliometrics, and, crucially, evaluation of the evaluat...

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  A small idea that started as a letter to the editor, but the reviewers were not convinced. 🙂 If lexical markers of LLM-assisted writing change as users and models adapt, can we really use them for longitudinal measurement? I call this the Marker Drift Problem. No large empirical study (yet). For now, a short preprint putting the problem on the table: :doi: https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/xs64q_v1 #Metascience #GenAI #LLM #ScholarlyCommunication #ResearchIntegrity #preprint

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  A useful new paper by Huang et al.: responsible scientometrics requires more than responsible indicators. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05796-7 Every #metric is shaped by choices made long before evaluation: #data sources, retrieval, cleaning, normalization, analysis, interpretation, and documentation. Responsible research assessment starts long before the assessment itself. #ResearchEvaluation #ResearchIntegrity #Scientometrics #Bibliometrics #Impact

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  My exchange with Ole Ellegaard continues in #Scientometrics. This time, the discussion moves to an interesting question: should every useful descriptive bibliometric analysis be published as a peer-reviewed research article, and where should we draw the line? :doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05828-2 #Bibliometrics #ResearchEvaluation #ScholComm

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  We evaluate researchers through papers, citations, grants and h-index. But much of good science depends on something these metrics barely capture: the quality of relationships between people – trust, mentoring, generosity, and the freedom to disagree. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05793-w Not everything that matters in science should become another KPI. #ResearchAssessment #Scientometrics #ResearchCulture #ResponsibleResearch

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  This is the building of the National Academy of Sciences of #Ukraine in central Kyiv today, after it was hit by a Russian drone. People are climbing out of the windows while the building is burning. This is also what doing research in #Kyiv can look like. You work, write, review papers, collect data, join meetings, submit manuscripts. As best you can, while you can. #RussiaIsATerroristState

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  What does a paper mill paper look like? Not necessarily a long list of authors. We analysed 11,704 paper mill-related retractions in the @retractionwatch Database. Surprisingly, single-author papers were the largest individual authorship category: :doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2026.2738368 A useful reminder for scientometrics: an aggregate pattern is not always a system-wide pattern. #ResearchIntegrity #Scientometrics #PaperMills #Retractions #ScholComm

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  Ukraine is integrating into the European Research Area 🇪🇺 while building a new national system for ranking researchers. Before this methodology is scaled up, some basic questions need answers: Who designed it? What evidence supports it? How was its validity tested? 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7513590823557681152/ #ResearchAssessment #ResearchPolicy #Ukraine #CoARA #Metrics

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  From #PublishOrPerish to #FastScience: Are we improving research culture, or simply adding more demands on researchers? My slides for the #OpenScience course in Uruguay explore academic pressure and #ResearchAssessment. :doi: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.24362.99524 ¡Muchas gracias por la invitación y por esta oportunidad de compartir ideas con colegas y jóvenes investigadores de Uruguay! 🇺🇾🇺🇦 Ha sido un verdadero placer. ¡Sigamos construyendo juntos una ciencia más abierta, responsable y h...

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  Yesterday, I read an interesting paper by Łukasz Remisiewicz in #Scientometrics, introducing the concept of "metric capital": academic indicators that researchers can accumulate and convert into positions, funding, promotions, and recognition. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05848-y What I found particularly interesting is the concept of metrics–status decoupling, when strong bibliometric performance does not translate into academic standing. #ResearchAssessment #...

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  Big news for #Scientometrics! @OpenAlex has integrated 61 trusted journal lists, opening new possibilities for independent, transparent research evaluation: 👉 https://blog.openalex.org/trusted-journal-lists-come-to-openalex/ I hope to find partners to build something open and valuable in Ukraine. Let's collaborate! 🇺🇦 #OpenScience #ResearchEvaluation #OpenDate

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  Preparing very seriously for my lecture on "The publish or perish and later models of fast science" at Open Science Uruguay 2026, at the kind invitation of @dprieto@mastodon.uy 🇺🇾 Step 1: read Mario Benedetti. So far, the preparation is going extremely well. What a wonderful poet. #OpenScience #Uruguay #MarioBenedetti #FastScience #Poetry #Literature

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  An interesting evolution from Mike Thelwall. A year ago, he was cautiously exploring whether LLMs could approximate expert research assessment. Today, he reports that ChatGPT-5 mini reached correlations of up to 0.905 with expert REF2021 quality assessments across some disciplines, using a dataset of more than 107,000 UK research articles. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2026-0058 #ResearchEvaluation #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #ChatGPT #LLM #AI #SciencePolicy

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  Today I had the pleasure of presenting my fellowship research at the weekly interdisciplinary #VUIAS seminar. :doi: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35582.55364 One of the key messages was simple: metrics often reveal symptoms, but understanding integrity problems requires looking at research environments, incentives, and organisational cultures. #ResearchIntegrity #Scientometrics #ResearchEthics #OpenScience #AcademicIntegrity #ScholarlyCommunication #HigherEducation #Science

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  Bad papers, incorrect references, and superficial reviews existed long before #ChatGPT. AI did not invent poor scholarship – it simply made it scalable. In our new paper, we argue that the debate should move beyond AI slop toward the broader concept of academic slop: low-quality scholarship produced without sufficient care, whether by humans or machines. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2026.2685154 #AcademicSlop #AISlop #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing #GenerativeAI

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  Most university rankings focus on Harvard, Oxford, and a handful of global stars. A recent paper takes a different approach - compares entire #HigherEducation systems: 📄 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101839 One interesting finding is that countries such as the UK, Spain, and Italy show a more evenly distributed level of institutional performance, whereas systems like the US and China rely more heavily on a smaller group of elite universities. #UniversityRankings #ResearchEvaluation #Sci...

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  A new preprint introduces SI-hacking (Special Issue hacking): when guest editors turn a special issue into a publication venue for themselves. :oa: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 Yet over 1,000 "hacked" special issues are still published every year. Strikingly, #MDPI accounts for 85% of all SI-hacked special issues in the dataset, while #Frontiers contributes another 13%. #AcademicPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReview

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  Analysing more than 30K cell biology papers 📄, the authors found that after performance-based evaluation systems began emphasizing first and corresponding authorship, the number of co-first and co-corresponding authors increased substantially. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2026.101838 Interestingly, team sizes did not grow in the same way = credit was simply redistributed among more researchers. #Scientometrics #ResearchEvaluation #Authorship #AcademicPublishing #ResearchPolicy

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  Who are the "ideal immigrants"? A massive study in @scienceadvances pooled data from 100 immigration experiments across 36 countries and 1.5 million immigrant profiles. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz2271 Perhaps most interestingly: people care much more about WHO an immigrant is than where they COME FROM. In short: your CV often matters more than your passport. #ScienceAdvances #Migration #Immigration #PublicOpinion #PoliticalScience #SocialScience

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  My latest article has been published in Research Integrity and Peer Review. The paper examines how scientific misconduct, questionable research practices, research climate, and supervision are studied across disciplines & research systems. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-026-00214-1 One key takeaway: research integrity risks are shaped not only by individual behaviour, but also by research environments, supervision, evaluation systems. #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicIntegrity #MetaR...

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  Nature's latest feature argues that the EU is trying to turn the current turmoil in US science into a historic opportunity: 👉 https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01955-1 A few striking facts: • Europe publishes more research papers than the US. • Horizon Europe could grow to €175–200 billion. • Nearly 45% of EU research output involves international collaboration. • Countries from Canada to Japan and Australia are joining parts of Horizon Europe. #SciencePolicy #HorizonEurope #Re...

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  A nice surprise: the CUNY AI Lab has launched an AI Use Disclosure tool based on the GAIDeT (Generative AI Delegation Taxonomy) framework. 👉 https://tools.ailab.gc.cuny.edu/ai-disclosure/ Researchers can now generate publication-ready, structured disclosures of how generative #AI was used across different stages of the research workflow: from idea generation and literature review to data management and writing. #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity #GenAI #AcademicPublishing #GAIDeT #MITLicense

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  Almost skipped a new paper in #Scientometrics - glad I didn’t. A key point: fundamental research is often too uncertain for the market, so universities become crucial for helping ideas survive through startups, accelerators, and entrepreneurial networks. #Patent licensing, meanwhile, depends more on real long-term collaboration with industry than on fancy “technology transfer offices”. :doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-026-05648-4 #HigherEducation #Innovation #Startups #Technology #Transfer

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  This paper explores the fascinating phenomenon of “zombie journals” – journals that continue to exist after their editorial boards resign and launch rival “breakaway journals.” :doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105519 Using cases from linguistics and bibliometrics, the study shows that journal brands can survive institutional crises, but often with dramatically changed author communities, citation patterns, and academic identities. #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #Scientometrics #...

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  In this presentation, I explore the idea of "AI plagiarism" not as a simple violation, but as a mismatch between new modes of text production and outdated systems for assessing knowledge and contribution. :doi: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25560.87049 If text no longer reliably reflects thinking, what exactly are we evaluating? This is part of my workshop at the Science Festival 2026. #OpenScience #AcademicIntegrity #GenerativeAI #ResearchEthics #ScholarlyCommunication...

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  Grateful to #VUIAS for the opportunity to present my workshop "Ranked but Not Heard: Metrics and the Position of Ukrainian Scholarship" during the Academic and Public Positioning for Ukrainian Scholars workshop in Vienna. The presentation explored academic visibility, scientometrics, open scholarly infrastructures, and the challenges Ukrainian researchers face within global systems of research evaluation. 👉 https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35650.13760 #OpenScience #Scientome...