Jack Culbert

Comparison of hybrid journal indexing by data source, 2019–2023. Only hybrid journals present in the cOAlition S Transformative Agreement Data dump with at least one open access article are considered. A presents the number of journals, B the number of articles (DOI), distinguishing between shared DOI corpus and surplus in hoaddata. Box plots C shows the 5-years journal article volume (log scale). Note that intersections sets with at least 30 journals are shown

Development of open access in hybrid journals in transformative agreements by data source and author role, 2019–2023. Figure shows the open access percentage (A), the number (B) and the percentage (C) of open access articles enabled by transformative agreements.

Just out: Open metadata enable large-scale hybrid open access studies. Cross-database comparison using major bibliometric databases shows that transformative agreements have been the main driver of open access. But paywalls still dominate.

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Two websites, one journal. The Journal of Informetrics has been hijacked. This is not just any journal, it's a well-known title published by Elsevier.
More journals from reputable publishers are being hijacked since recently.
Guess which screenshot belongs to the original journal?
HT: Paul Donner

Curious about disruption indicators?
On June 11, 2-3, we will have two presentations and a discussion on:
"How to measure disruption in science?" Register here: tinyurl.com/rutwxez9.

Was inspiring meeting Prof. @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca at GESIS today. Time to rev up the postgres server once more! #NewProjects #Bibliometrics #AcademicSky

Anyone interested in studying BlueSky data in bulk?

I've just released an app that consumes the firehose and stores it in PostgreSQL for easy use. Hope it's useful!

github.com/jhculb/WideS...

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Includes open data on transformative agreements

- 1,043 TAs with 17,199 journals and 5,355 institutions
- 1,362,221 eligible articles

Preserved and curated from various sources, e.g. #esac, @coalitions-oa.bsky.social & #OpenAlex

Overview and first steps: github.com/kbopenbib/kb...

Your German is sufficient and you want to get a quick introduction how #DiamondOpenAccess is supported by #EZB @uniregensburg.bsky.social and the upcoming #DiamondDiscoveryHub, provided by @craft-oa.bsky.social ?
Join us at 10am today

www.opencost.de/aktuelles/di...

An R package that bombs the session if you attempt to change the working directory

The KB provides access to curated OpenAlex data on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1530... and Github: tinyurl.com/yc4w9vk4. Curations focus on GER research and comprise the following entities:
- Addresses
- Publishers
- Funding info
- Document types
- Transformative agreements
- Authors (in the future).

AI research summaries ‘exaggerate findings’, study warns Bots’ tendency to display ‘unwarranted confidence’ and fixate on ‘pink elephants’ particularly risky in medical research, according to new paper

AI tools overhype research findings far more often than humans, with a study suggesting the newest bots are the worst offenders – particularly when they are specifically instructed not to exaggerate
#AcademicSky

The raison d'être of academic publishing is to publish output that meets a basic requirement of quality: that people should be able to trust that it isn't fundamentally wrong.

This feature shows a shocking disregard for that with a lazy caveat about it being AI content & 'the quality may vary'.

Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus - Scientometrics OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it...

Several #KB partners have collaborated on an analysis of #openalex data quality aspects (here in particular the completeness of references as a fundamental backbone for bibliometric databases), more contributions to follow! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus - Scientometrics OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it...

Today, I am simply over the moon - as I can announce with joy that my first journal paper has just been published!! 🍾

What an amazing feeling, after such a journey!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Had not given this too much thought before, but yes, retracted studies can have a sizeable effect on meta-analyses conclusions

#MedSky 🧪

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

left panel :"don't make me tap the sign" right panel: "cite software packages in your methods section"

I would save time by leaving this comment in my peer review template instead of adding it in every time

#AcademicSky #PsychSkiSky #DataSkyence #rstats

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

Nothing to see here, just Nature advocating LLM peer review.

“Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”

BibexPy: Harmonizing the bibliometric symphony of Scopus and Web of Science Bibliometric analyses frequently encounter issues such as duplicate records, missing metadata, and inconsistent formats, reducing reliability and effi…

"This paper presents a Python-based software solution that addresses these challenges by merging datasets from Scopus and Web of Science, performing DOI-based deduplication, and enhancing metadata using APIs such as Unpaywall and Semantic Scholar."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

DS9 was so funny and great with this, Weyoun was a one off character who died at the end of his episode and everyone was like damn Weyoun was so cool we love Jeffrey Combs and then everyone realized it was Star Trek and you could do whatever you want so we got nine Weyouns running around

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

I also dabble occasionally with other scrapers: for example 4TCT - a tool for collecting text datasets from 4Chan github.com/jhculb/4TCT

Recently I've presented the ORC at the Global Tech Mining conference in Berlin, and the Nordic Workshop for Bibliometrics and Research Policy in Reykjavik.

Hello Bluesky, I guess I should introduce myself.
I'm Jack, I enjoy bibliometrics and Open Science research.
When I have time I'm also pursuing my PhD.
I created the Open Research Converter (the ORC) orc-demo.gesis.org, and looked at the reference coverage of OpenAlex arxiv.org/abs/2401.16359.