Alexey

I'm thrilled to be taking this on--it is such a pleasure to be able to enable exciting new research and learn about new ways researchers would like to use our data! I'm looking forward to seeing what impact we can make on the world of innovation, science policy, and scientometrics more broadly. 😇

Title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords from a paper about the peace building dimension of the ocean

“Sustainability & #peace are two basic conditions for people to live better & happier” write Ryabinin et al. As UN SDG 14 focuses on #ocean #sustainability, but not explicitly on peace, they advocate for “a peaceful ocean” to be added as the 8th outcome of the UN Ocean Decade doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...

I'm very proud to have worked on this paper and to see it published! Knowledge syntheses condense a wide range of works to a single publication, but we can also use them as starting points to identify a comprehensive body of research.

doi.org/10.17645/oas...

Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too Researchers studying research must avoid the temptation to get too stuck in the academic weeds.

‘Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too’. Good, thoughtful editorial in @nature.com on #Metascience2025 & the new Alliance

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@helenpearson.bsky.social @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social

GitHub - ikashnitsky/sjrdata: All scimagojr.com data wrapped for R All scimagojr.com data wrapped for R. Contribute to ikashnitsky/sjrdata development by creating an account on GitHub.

🤩 UPD {sjrdata} to 2024 data #rstats
github.com/ikashnitsky/...
In this update I revert back to downloading all the data yearly. This came out of a productive discussion with @hansonmark.bsky.social (🙌), in which he pointed out that SCImago group sometimes changes the data backwards in their updates

Just got back from an amazing week at #ISSI2025 in Yerevan, Armenia! I had the chance to present both a talk and a poster:
🕊️ Talk: Melting Science: Russian Climate Change Research in the Global Context
🧶 Poster: Stop, little pot! Are there too many scientometric studies?
Let’s keep in touch!

I had a lot of fun at #issi2025! So many fantastic young scientists trying to quantify how political, cultural, and personal forces shape science.

Hope, I'll be presenting at the ISSI 2025 Conference in Yerevan: Melting Science: Russian Climate Change Research in the Global Context
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If you're attending #ISSI2025, I’d be thrilled to see you there! Don't forget about our poster too: Stop, little pot! Are there too many scientometric studies?

MDPI? ? ?

Where there’s a will there’s a way: ChatGPT is used more for science in countries where it is prohibited Abstract. Regulating AI is a key societal challenge, but effective methods remain unclear. This study evaluates geographic restrictions on AI services, focusing on ChatGPT, which OpenAI blocks in seve...

Really glad that this is out! Fantastic collaboration with @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @innovation.bsky.social!

Key insight: Knowledge diffusion is nearly impossible to constrain—where there's a will, there's a way. From the atomic bomb to ChatGPT, determined minds always find a path.
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Geographical and disciplinary coverage of open access journals: OpenAlex, Scopus, and WoS This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the Web of Science (WoS). We used the Directory of Open Access Scholarly R...

🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE!
We explore the geographical & disciplinary coverage of #OpenAccess journals across #OpenAlex, #Scopus & #WoS.

📊 Key takeaway: OpenAlex offers broader OA coverage — but global imbalances persist.

👉 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#OpenAccess

starter pack to ratify the high seas treaty

This #StarterPack is for world leaders heading to NY for the first #BBNJPrepCom.

Suit? ✅ Pen? ✅ Octavia? ✅ Now bring the political will to ratify the #HighSeasTreaty before #UNOC3

Time to take the #BBNJ Treaty out of the box.

#RaceForRatification @highseasalliance.bsky.social

lnkd.in/eFaQQz4i

Visualization of cuts to health research by house districts at scienceimpacts.org

Update via #SCIMaP now broken down by house districts

Our interdisciplinary team has expanded efforts to communicate the economic impacts of White House proposed cuts to health research.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

It started as a piece about geographic names changes, but it also reflects about metadata standards, what these mean for research, and how to overcome discrepancies. Data provision and accessability is more acute than ever

Or to recruit Russian and Belorussian scientists

#map

As mapped by @barisari.bsky.social, Geneva and Nairobi are the most frequent hosts of peace talk venues, followed by Moscow, Paris, New York, and New Delhi. His paper doi.org/10.1177/0022... provides detailed information on negotiations

Vladimir, after this highly cited paper from 2016 there are some more complex questions were discussed from the topic proportions DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/abf7f3 to the role of women authors DOI 10.1088/2752-5295/ad6f3b - however, both examples from the one successful group, but you may find others

@mathiaswullum.bsky.social is here

@elenachechik.bsky.social my recommendation

Interesting call, thank you!

Great choice!

For now it's too simple to divide the world into two sides

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Gerhard Rainer (2024) entitled '(Pragmatist) geographies of rankings' with a black banner at the top.

New #OpenAccess paper in Area:

'(Pragmatist) geographies of rankings' by Gerhard Rainer

This paper explores the growing importance of rankings as a means of valuation, using the wine industry as a case in point.

doi.org/10.1111/area...

The brand new `legendry` package by @teunbrand.bsky.social takes ggplots2 guides to the next level 🤩

teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl...

Remember this quote from a view days ago about reviewer requesting to add irrelevant citaions? My colleague @helenedraux.bsky.social looked a little bit behind the scenes and performed some quick analysis for her research data bites at researchmusings.substack.com/p/a-case-of-...

English speakers in academia

The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank The long read: During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger

This is so incredibly moving.
#science #biodiversity #libraries #archives

Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on.

Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!

#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci

go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD

Thank you very much

Challenges in Research Policy This open access volume examines significant challenges in research policy, offering expert insights and policy recommendations on critical issues.

New edited volume:
Challenges in Research Policy
And it's open access! 👍

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...