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Research assessment reform is essential to break the cycle of dependence on high-impact commercial journals and related metrics.
➡️ Reclaiming academic ownership of the #ScholarlyCommunication system buff.ly/0C0Wqfn

#OpenScience

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📚 Article à lire : @bowkerl.bsky.social, Mikael Laakso & @jpolonen.bsky.social explorent les risques liés au monolinguisme anglophone sur l’écosystème scientifique.

📌 L'article : id.erudit.org/iderudit/111...
📌 Résumé de l'article : shorturl.at/nKGgo

The July 2025 dump of OpenCitations Index is out! Now featuring 2.21 BILLION citations from 5 data sources.

👉 download.opencitations.net

Ever wondered how these sources overlap? This chart shows where citations are shared and where they're unique:

Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals Abstract. Although the organisational aspects of scholarly journals—such as the types of organisations responsible for publishing individual journals, whether independently or in collaboration—have si...

74.4% of the 21,886 WoS-indexed journals involve commercial professional publishers, 29% societies, and 27.8% research organisations as sole/co-publishers. Our paper co-authored with @zehrataskin.bsky.social, Emanuel Kulczycki & @mikaellaakso.bsky.social - now on QSS website: doi.org/10.1162/qss....

Significant differences between European countries in the higher education institution's engagement with #CoARA, #HRS4R @dorassessment.bsky.social. This and other findings in my presentation at the CoARA General Assembly 23 June on CoARA Uptake across European HEIs: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Happy to announce the soft launch of DoLS - the Directory of Learned Societies, an open, growing database of learned societies and their journals worldwide, facilitating visibility, networking, and community-building!

Explore #DoLS website: www.tsv.fi/en/services/...

Significant differences between European countries in the higher education institution's engagement with #CoARA, #HRS4R @dorassessment.bsky.social. This and other findings in my presentation at the CoARA General Assembly 23 June on CoARA Uptake across European HEIs: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

This interesting new preprint on SocArXiv shows that "The landscape of academic journals is beyond the oligopoly: it is diverse and often grounded in public, academic-driven initiatives rather than market imperatives." osf.io/preprints/so...

📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Glad to see this report about 'reclaiming academic ownership of scholarly communication system'.

I like presentation of diamond OA and publish-review-curate (PRC) as complementary approaches. Important to note that PRC is not only about reclaiming ownership but also about various other issues.

Reclaiming academic ownership of the scholarly communication system EUA - European University Association

📖 What are the main factors shaping the current academic publishing system?
🚧 What key challenges does the academic community face?
🔍 Are there opportunities for universities to reshape the future of #ScholarlyCommunication?
🔗 New EUA briefing buff.ly/0C0Wqfn

#AcademicSky #EduSky

DIAMAS releases Diamond Open Access Recommendations and Guidelines EUA - European University Association

💎 📖 #Diamas project releases #DiamondOA Recommendations and Guidelines
for Institutions, Funders, Sponsors, Donors, and Policymakers.
ℹ️ buff.ly/bwSeFJL

#OpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenScience #SciencePolicy @eudch.bsky.social‬

How universities can protect and promote academic freedom EUA - European University Association

Universities and their communities play an essential role in protecting and promoting academic freedom. 🛡️ 🤲 They must commit to making academic freedom a lived and daily reality.

Read EUA's position paper buff.ly/35qwaif

#AcademicFreedom

JOSS re-evaluated as JUFO 1 in Finland, expands its definition - Nordic RSE We bring together the community of people writing and contributing to research software from Nordic universities, research institutes, companies and other organizations to share knowledge, to organize...

It's great to see that a national research evaluation organization, the Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO), has rated @joss-openjournals.bsky.social as level 1, recognizing its scholarly value

Frankie Robertson helped make this happen, with Nordic-RSE, & wrote about it: nordic-rse.org/blog/joss-ju...

@polecopub.bsky.social presenting #Matilda as a new source for Open Citations at #WOOC2025 in Bologna

📢 Webinaari 11.6. klo 10:00-11:30: Yliopistojen, AMKien ja tutkimuslaitosten näkemyksiä tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallisen vaikuttavuuden arvioinnista sekä Alankomaiden, Norjan, Puolan ja UK:n arviointijärjestelmien vertailu.

Ilmoittautuminen ja lisätietoa: www.julkaisufoorumi.fi/fi/tapahtuma...

Thank you Pablo for the great contribution and discussion @RESSH2025!

Paljon onnea!

PhD Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research Publishing PhD candidate Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research PublishingThe past decade has seen the rise of distinct new challenges for research integrity in the context of scientific publishing....

Papers mills and other manipulative practices are major problem in scientific publishing system. Addressing this problem requires in-depth system-level understanding of dynamics leading to these practices. At @cwts.nl we have PhD position to work on this!

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations - Scientometrics This study explores ways of identifying learned societies within the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a type of organization that so far lacks its own category within the registry. Despite their ...

Our paper "Learned societies in the academic landscape: challenges in identifying and categorizing organizations" was published today in Scientometrics: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Thank you Emanuel Kulczycki, @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @zehrataskin.bsky.social for the great collaboration!

Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’ The managing editors and entire editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly, a Wiley title, have resigned, citing “unilateral decisions” by the publisher “that affected the editorial process.”&…

Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title ‘free from pressure or influence’

retractionwatch.com/2025/04/07/m...

PeerJ is now part of a large for-profit commercial publisher.
Sad 😶.
peerj.com/blog/post/11...

RESSH2025 Conference RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists o...

📢 The Draft Programme of the #RESSH2025 conference is published! 46 presentations, 5 posters, and a keynote by Toma Tasovac: "Reshaping Research Assessment: What Research Infrastructures Have Got to Do With It?"
Info and registration: vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...

📢Deadline for submissions to #STI2025 has been extended to 14 April 2025. The 29th Annual STI-ENID Conference will take place in Bristol from 3–5 September 2025. Submissions can be made via Oxford Abstracts, accessible through the conference website: www.stienid2025.org

The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) is now on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/eudc...

Assessment reform and publishing reform need to go hand in hand The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, Ludo Waltman argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful onl...

I just published a blog post arguing that the reform movements for research assessment and scientific publishing need to better align their agendas. This is crucial for the success of both movements.

www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ass...

@leidenmadtrics.bsky.social

RESSH2025 Conference RESSH2025 conference of the international association ENRESSH (European Network for Research Evaluation in the SSH) is organized 19-21 May, 2025, in Helsinki, Finland. It brings together specialists o...

📢Registration is now open for the RESSH2025 conference 19-21 May 2025 in Helsinki, Finland! We look forward to 46 presentations, 5 posters, and a keynote by Toma Tasovac: "Reshaping Research Assessment: What Research Infrastructures Have Got to Do With It?": vastuullinentiede.fi/en/events/re...

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Yay! You can now follow @coarassessment.bsky.social on Bluesky! 👇🏻

Tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallinen vaikuttavuus ja sen arviointi- raportin julkistaminen Tutkijat suhtautuvat myönteisesti tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallisen vuorovaikutuksen edistämiseen, mutta kokevat vaikuttavuuden arvioinnin haasteellisena. Raportin julkistamistilaisuudessa esitellään kyse...

Tutkimuksen yhteiskunnallinen vaikuttavuus ja sen arviointi -raportin julkistamiswebinaari järjestetään tiistaina 8.4. klo 10—11.15.

Tapahtuma on maksuton ja se järjestetään etänä (Zoom). Ilmoittautuneet saavat osallistumislinkin sähköpostiin: julkaisufoorumi.fi/fi/tapahtuma...

Sami Syrjämäki on LinkedIn: Kotimaisten tiedelehtien palvelus yhteiskunnalle   Kuvittele, että… Kotimaisten tiedelehtien palvelus yhteiskunnalle   Kuvittele, että käytössäsi ei olisi suomalaisia uutiskanavia. Suomea käsittelevät uutiset saat…

Linkkarissa minun ja @jpolonen.bsky.social kirjoitus kotimaisten tiedelehtien (ja kirjojen) merkityksestä: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...