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1/2 Honoured to be shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 🏆✨

This recognises our work toward open, trusted, high-quality research information

Thanks to @ludowaltman.bsky.social (@unileiden.bsky.social @cwtsnl.bsky.social), @msphelps.bsky.social & Cameron Neylon for shaping the vision

Very much looking forward to this event!

@metaror.bsky.social @asapbio.bsky.social @rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

Excited to work with a wonderful group of international colleagues to promote openness of publication metadata in negotiations with publishers!

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Innovation in scientific publishing and its implications for Crossref DOI registration practices - Request for input - Crossref Lots of exciting innovations are being made in scientific publishing, often raising fundamental questions about established publishing practices. In this guest post, Ludo Waltman and André Brasil disc...

We need good practices for DOI registration for publish-review-curate platforms like @metaror.bsky.social and others.

@andre-brasil.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about this: doi.org/10.64000/76j...

Together with @crossref.bsky.social we hope to receive input from the community on this issue!

Making Participation Matter? Citizen Science for Sustainability and Governance

🎉 On Monday, 13 October at 4 pm (CEST), our colleague @utawehn.bsky.social will deliver her inaugural lecture "Making Participation Matter? Citizen Science for Sustainability and Governance".

👥 You can join the livestream or attend in person.

Register here 👉 universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Moving OA Forward Focus Sessions: The relevance of Open Research Information. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the mee... Key research data and analytics—such as publication metadata, citation counts, and funding information—are often locked behind paywalls, creating a “black box” that limits transparency, accountability...

Very excited about the partnership between @barcelonadori.bsky.social and @oa2020.org to work together on advancing openness of publication metadata in publisher negotiations!

Interested to learn more? Join next Thursday's OA2020 webinar.

Registration: eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Open access in India: A trajectory of opportunities, missteps, and future potential Open access (OA) has become inevitable in global scholarly communication, yet its development in India reflects a mix of progress, setbacks, and untapped potential. This talk will examine the global r...

📣 The first research seminar of the season! Madhan Muthu will talk about "Open access in India: A trajectory of opportunities, missteps, and future potential".

🎧 Make sure to join!

📅 Friday, 26.9.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST)
📌 Online & at CWTS

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Our @cwts.nl PhD candidate Narmin Rzayeva chose to submit her most recent article, co-authored with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social and me, to MetaROR. The article presents an analysis of the adoption of preprinting across disciplines and regions.

Glad to see the feedback provided by two reviewers!

📢 New RoRI paper out in Science & Technology Studies

The study explores how 8 research funders navigate the ambiguous role of “excellence” - not simply as a matter of fact, but increasingly as a matter of concern requiring reconfiguration: sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view...

"Much of what shapes a scientific paper never sees the light of day."

RoRI's André Brasil writes about MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) and opening the black box of peer review in the inaugural issue of REACH by @sci-integrity.com: www.sci-integrity.com/reach-inaugu...

GAIDeT: a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing Transparency of AI use in academia matters for authors, editors, reviewers, readers and repository moderators. This blog post introduces GAIDeT, a taxonomy for the structured disclosure of Generative ...

📢 Transparency in AI use in academia is urgently needed. In this blog post, @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social, Natalia Tsybuliak, Jaime A. Texeira da Silva & @yanasychikova.bsky.social introduce GAIDeT - a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research.

www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai...

Academic publishing – stuck in a prisoner’s dilemma? Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. Our author shows how this strategic trap can be compared to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains how this s...

📄 Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. Sagartirtha Chakraborty
shows how this situation compares to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains the connection with predatory journals, and outlines solutions.

www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/aca...

Making bibliometric reporting more transparent and consistent: Participants needed for pilot testing of GLOBAL The team behind the GLOBAL reporting guideline invites researchers who are preparing or reviewing a bibliometric article to take part in a pilot test of the guideline.

📝 Today, the team behind the GLOBAL reporting guideline invites researchers who are preparing or reviewing a bibliometric article to take part in a pilot test of the guideline.

👇 Find more information in the article below

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Berlin University Alliance promotes sustainable research practices: Dr. Elizabeth Gadd and Prof. Dr. Thed van Leeuwen receive fellowships for commitment to research quality and open science

🎓 Our colleague Thed van Leeuwen has been invited for the “Research Quality and Open Science” fellowship programme by @berlinualliance.bsky.social, together with @lizziegadd.bsky.social from @lborouniversity.bsky.social.

🥂 Congratulations!

www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/items/202...

Open science is one of our key areas of expertise at @cwts.nl. Very glad that we can use our expertise in this area to develop an open science monitoring framework for the Netherlands!

We will work on this together with colleagues at Dialogic.

Analysing research funding flows in the Global South In a context marked by deep asymmetries in access to research resources, the research project “Tracking Research Funding Flows in the Global South” aims to make visible and analyze the ways in which i...

💸 Our latest blog post describes how the research project “Tracking Research Funding Flows in the Global South” by @clacso.bsky.social, @cwts.nl & Siris Academic aims to make visible & analyze ways in which international science funding circulates.

👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics

We were very happy to learn that our partnership with Dialogic innovatie & interactie has been selected for the Open Science Monitoring and Evaluation project!

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My PhD candidate Juan Pablo Bascur submitted one of his papers to MetaROR. The reviews of his paper have now been published on the platform.

Very glad to see early-career researchers embracing new approaches to scientific publishing!

Very happy with the participation of @cwts.nl in the COMET initiative!

New on the blog, Organizer @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social Nees Jan van Eck from @cwts.nl explains why CWTS is passionate about enriching #metadata and participating in COMET. A must-read!

👉 www.cometadata.org/blog/cwts

Three challenges for scientific publishing

Today I had the pleasure to be a panelist in the session 'moving beyond journals' at the @royalsociety.org Future of Scientific Publishing conference.

I argued that scientific publishing is going through a transformation addressing the challenges of openness, curation and meaningful dialogue.

MetaROR team

The conference finally offered opportunity for MetaROR team to get together.

I had nice dinner with Kathy Zeiler, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @alexh.bsky.social, @andre-brasil.bsky.social.

Feeling privileged to work with such great team! cms.metaror.org/about-our-te...

MetaROR flyer

Very grateful to all colleagues in the metascience community who dropped by at the @metaror.bsky.social stand at the recent #Metascience2025 conference. Glad to see the overwhelming interest in the MetaROR platform!

metaror.org

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COMET in Action: Pilots, Progress, and What Comes Next Over the past 6 months of community collaboration, the COMET taskforce has co-created and articulated a new, community-led model for curating and enriching metadata using trusted, persistent identifie...

☄️ @cometadata.bsky.social is working towards a community approach to metadata enrichment. We are involved with our colleague @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social

💡 Find out more in this article 👉 www.cometadata.org/blog/comet-i...

📆 Join their community meeting on 15 July 👉 datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🎉 Congratulations to our Citizen Science Lab colleagues (@mobilemaggie.bsky.social, @anoukspelt.bsky.social, Jordy Janssen) at @unileiden.bsky.social for being part of 1 of 5 #CitizenScience hubs funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social!

More info about the Hub for Impactful & Engaged Research (HIER).👇

We're proud to see our colleague @ludowaltman.bsky.social featured in a 🆕 interview as part of the #AcademiaInMotion campaign at @unileiden.bsky.social where he shares his vision on #OpenScience, #SocietalEngagement, and Recognition & Rewards. 👉 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/07...

In this blog post we make the case for the @metaror.bsky.social publish-review-curate model, arguing it supports better research assessment, as promoted by DORA and others.

@rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

🎉 Exciting news! The Ethical Data Initiative and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies @cwts.nl have joined forces to promote responsible data practices and ethics. Find out more and stay tuned for updates!

👉 bit.ly/4lgqyL1

🌍✨ #DataEthics #ResponsibleData

🕖 Only a few days left to apply....

Check out this exciting opportunity to join RoRI as a (senior) Research Fellow in #Metascience. Apply before 9 July 👇

Strengthening Integrity in Science and Data: CWTS and EDI Announce Strategic Partnership The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the Ethical Data Initiative (EDI) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at fostering a collaborative...

🤝CWTS @cwts.nl & EDI @edinitiative.bsky.social have signed a Memorandum of Understanding!

We're teaming up to advance responsible data practices & strengthen global dialogue around data ethics, scientific governance, & equity in research.🌍

🔗 Learn more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...