Abdelghani Maddi

Global Research Initiative on Open Science establishes its Academic Advisory Board GRIOS, the Global Research Initiative on Open Science, is pleased to announce the establishment of its Academic Advisory Board (AAB), following a highly competitive selection process. The newly appoin...

GRIOS has established its Academic Advisory Board: 11 leading scholars from 9 countries across Europe, Africa & the Americas, with expertise in #metascience, #reproducibility, #ResearchPolicy & #ScholComm and strong interest in evidence-based #OpenScience policies
🔗 www.grios.org/global-resea...

Academic Advisory Board The Academic Advisory Board (AAB) is an integral part of GRIOS governance. Its main role is to advise the Steering Committee on academic matters and ensure the academic rigour and quality of the work ...

A warm welcome to all AAB members! Thrilled to have you on board! @amaddi.bsky.social, Amanda Blatch-Jones, Eduarda Centeno, Emmanuel Boakye, @emckiernan.bsky.social, Julia Priess Buchheit, @natalieharrower.bsky.social, Nchangwi Munung, Neil Jacobs, Timothy Errington
👉 www.grios.org/academic-adv...

Webinaire « L’intégrité scientifique au défi des nouvelles pratiques éditoriales », proposé par Couperin et @univlorraine.bsky.social

Ouvert à toutes et tous, en ligne, ce sera le 12 février 2026, de 14h à 17h.

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So stimulating & such a pleasure to work w/ these geniuses. Took only 11 versions to get us all aligned and agree on one call to action to stop the drain.
What we all agreed on right away: this push needs to happen via strong funder and institutional policies w/out for-profit publisher interference

Today, I presented retractbase.csic.es, our open database about retractions, in Bristol STI-ENID Conference. @stienid2025.bsky.social with a very good reception

Open Science Initiatives Tracker This dashboard provides a dynamic and community-driven overview of Open Science initiatives around the world.

🚀 Exciting news for the #OpenScience community!

🎉 The COSMI Hub, part of the #OPENIT Project, is live! Explore a community-driven platform mapping OS initiatives worldwide. Discover, classify, and compare initiatives promoting openness.

💡 Check it out: amcm.shinyapps.io/openit/previ...

#STIENID25

👇 MetaROR is very proud and excited to announce this new partnership with @plosbiology.org 🙏

As part of this, "PLOS Biology will formally consider meta-research articles that are peer-reviewed on the MetaROR platform", in order to "improve transparency" and "[prevent] futile cycles of peer review".

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.

[Petit thread] article sur la confiance dans la science à travers le monde 🌎 🥼🔬🔭

Je n’avais pas vu passer cette publication de début d’année du TISP Many Labs project  qui est ma foi forte bien faite www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Metascience 2025 recordings are now available! #Metascience25 gathered researchers, funders, policymakers & more to explore how the research process can improve. The program included preconference symposia & plenary sessions on topics from policy change to AI in research.

🎥 cassyni.com/s/metasc...

Trump contre la science : un séisme mondial ? Décryptage par le sociologue Michel Dubois | Le blob, l'extra-média Depuis son investiture à la présidence des États-Unis, Donald Trump multiplie les mesures à l’encontre de la science. Face à la défiance de ce gouvernement, la confiance du public envers les sciences ...

Un grand merci à @charlesbehr.bsky.social @universcience.bsky.social pour cette occasion de revenir sur la situation des sciences aux Etats-Unis : « Trump contre la science : un séisme mondial ? » leblob.fr/videos/trump...

Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it An early-career researcher who discovered a nearly identical version of her manuscript published by the researcher who reviewed — and recommended rejecting — the work for another journal is still a…

Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it

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....

Registration 2025 Registration is free and open to all! Simply fill out the following registration form. Get ready to explore the exciting world of bibliometrics with us! Registration Form We collect and use your pe…

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Join the free, hybrid #LISBibliometrics Conference 2025

📅 26 Nov 2025 | Leicester & Online

Theme: Bibliometrics in Action—practical tools & skills for research evaluation!

🔗 Register: lisbibliometrics.wordpress.com/c-2025-regis...

A new view of the state of the scholarly publishing oligopoly: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Considering journals and papers published, big publishers have been losing ground, as many independent journals have been created, especially since 2000. With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social

📢 New publication out!

🇨🇳 China’s Open Science strategy relies heavily on supply-side tools (63%)—infra, education, public services—while incentives & mandates remain marginal.

🔗 www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/13...
#OpenScience #China #SciPolicy

🚨 Major release alert
We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦
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"Consultation nationale : les Français montrent leur intérêt pour les sciences"
www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...

📣 New preprint out today! Together with the brilliant Philips Ayeni, we´ve been persistently working on a paper titled "Why engage with transformative agreements in scholarly publishing? Analysis of customer and publisher press release statements". #openaccess
doi.org/10.31235/osf...

📢 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...

🆕 Preprint!
"Open Science, Open Innovation?"
Patents cite open access science more often — especially with Sci-Hub access. Europe & Oceania lead in using science, Americas lag behind.
📖 Open Science = key to global, equitable innovation.
👉 hal.science/hal-05073197
#OpenScience #Patents

We need more studies like this👍 thank you Sam

Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies Unique reproducibility effort in Brazil focuses on common methods rather than a single field ― and prompts call for reform.

"Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies"

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

18 avril 2025. Appel à candidatures thèse CEA (DRF - Joliot) - Sorbonne Université (GEMASS) : Promesses scientifiques et circulation sociale d’une « molécule de l’année » : le cas de l’Azote Réactif -... Situé dans le domaine des études sociales des sciences, ce projet de thèse est co-encadré par Jérôme SANTOLINI (CEA), Michel DUBOIS (CNRS) et Catherine GUASPARE (CNRS)

🎓 Call for Applications: @cea.fr @sorbonne-universite.fr @gemass-socio.bsky.social are recruiting a PhD candidate for a 3-year funded position in the field of Science & Technology Studies.🔬 Topic: Promises and social life of reactive nitrogen 📅 Deadline: May 19, 2025 www.gemass.fr/18-avril-202...

Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract? Failures of retraction are common in science. Why do these failures occur? And, relatedly, what makes findings harder or easier to retract? We use data from Microsoft Academic Graph, Retraction Watch,...

📄 "Are Widely Known Findings Easier to Retract?" by Memon, West & O'Connor

"highly cited papers show more significant reductions in citation after retraction and garner more attention to their retractions as they occur."

arxiv.org/abs/2504.15504

#Research_Integrity #Retraction

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🔎 Over 100 NSF grant cancellations now compiled in a public database by @noamross.net and @scott-delaney.bsky.social very useful database for monitoring the type of political interference currently at work in the US #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

"US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024. At the same time, the number of US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%."

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

Choose France for Science : lancement de la plateforme dédiée aux candidatures d’accueil de chercheurs internationaux Alors que le contexte international crée aujourd’hui les conditions d’une vague de mobilité sans précédent parmi les chercheurs à travers le monde, la France entend se positionner comme un lieu d’accu...

Choose France for Science : anr.fr/fr/actualite...

🇨🇳 #China is the world’s top research publisher — but how does it shape #OpenScience?

Our new preprint reveals a centralized, infrastructure-first strategy 🏗️, with little room for incentives 💸 or participation 🤝.

Full paper 👉 www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

@gemass-socio.bsky.social

Annonce de la candidature du prix science ouverte 2025 de la thèse

Candidatez pour le prix #scienceouverte 2025 de la thèse jusqu'au 23 juin 2025 à midi !
www.ouvrirlascience.fr/les-candidat...
#doctorant #openscience #phd

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