In the Dark<p><strong>ResearchFish Again</strong></p><p>One of the things I definitely don’t miss about working in the UK university system is the dreaded <em>Researchfish</em>. If you’ve never heard of this bit of software, it’s intended to collect data relating to the outputs of research grants funded by the various Research Councils. That’s not an unreasonable thing to want to do, of course, but the interface is – or at least <em>was</em> when I last used it several years ago – extremely clunky and user-unfriendly. That meant that, once a year, along with other academics with research grants (in my case from STFC) I had to waste hours uploading bibliometric and other data by hand. A sensible system would have harvested this automatically as it is mostly available online at various locations or allowed users simply to upload their own publication list as a file; most of us keep an up-to-date list of publications for various reasons (including vanity!) anyway. Institutions also keep track of all this stuff independently. All this duplication seemed utterly pointless.</p><p>I always wondered what happened to the information I uploaded every year, which seemed to disappear without trace into the bowels of RCUK. I assume it was used for something, but mere researchers were never told to what purpose. I guess it was used to assess the performance of researchers in some way.</p><p>When I left the UK in 2018 to work full-time in Ireland, I took great pleasure in ignoring the multiple emails demanding that I do yet another <em>Researchfish</em> upload. The automated reminders turned into individual emails threatening that I would never again be eligible for funding if I didn’t do it, to which I eventually replied that I wouldn’t be applying for UK research grants anymore anyway. So there. Eventually the emails stopped.</p><p>Then, about three years ago, ResearchFish went from being merely pointless to downright sinister as a scandal erupted about the company that operates it (called Infotech), involving the abuse of data and the bullying of academics. I wrote about this <a href="https://telescoper.blog/2022/04/19/the-researchfish-scandal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>. It <a href="https://telescoper.blog/2022/05/19/the-researchfish-saga-continues/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">then transpired</a> that UKRI, the umbrella organization governing the UK’s research council had been actively conniving with Infotech to target critics. An inquiry was promised but I don’t know what became of that.</p><p>Anyway, all that was a while ago and I neither longer live nor work in the UK so why mention ResearchFish again, now?</p><p>The reason is something that shocked me when I found out about it a few days ago. <a href="https://researchfish.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Researchfish</a> is now operated by commercial publishing house <em>Elsevi</em>er.</p><p>Words fail. I can’t be the only person to see a gigantic conflict of interest. How can a government agency allow the assessment of its research outputs to be outsourced to a company that profits hugely by the publication of those outputs? There’s a phrase in British English which I think is in fairly common usage: <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marking_your_own_homework" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">marking your own homework</a></em>. This relates to individuals or organizations who have been given the responsibility for regulating their own products. Is very apt here.</p><p>The acquisition of Researchfish isn’t the only example of Elsevier getting its talons stuck into academia life. Elsevier also “runs” the bibliometric service <a href="https://www.scopus.com/home.uri" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scopus</a> which it markets as a sort of quality indicator for academic articles. I put “runs” in inverted commas because Scopus is hopelessly inaccurate and unreliable. I can certainly speak from experience on that. Nevertheless, Elsevier has managed to dupe research managers – clearly not the brightest people in the world – into thinking that Scopus is a quality product. I suppose the more you pay for something the less inclined you are to doubt its worth, because if you do find you have paid worthless junk you look like an idiot.</p><p>A few days ago I posted a piece that include this excerpt from an <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">article in Wired</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Every industry has certain problems universally acknowledged as broken: insurance in health care, licensing in music, standardized testing in education, tipping in the restaurant business. In academia, it’s publishing. Academic publishing is dominated by for-profit giants like Elsevier and Springer. Calling their practice a form of thuggery isn’t so much an insult as an economic observation. </p></blockquote><p>With the steady encroachment of the likes of Elsevier into research assessment, it is clear that as well as raking in huge profits, the thugs are now also assuming the role of the police. The academic publishing industry is a monstrous juggernaut that is doing untold damage to research and is set to do more. It has to stop.</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/bibliometrics/" target="_blank">#bibliometrics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/elsevier/" target="_blank">#Elsevier</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/infotech/" target="_blank">#Infotech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/research-assessment/" target="_blank">#ResearchAssessment</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/researchfish/" target="_blank">#Researchfish</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/scopus/" target="_blank">#SCOPUS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/ukri/" target="_blank">#UKRI</a></p>
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François Renaville 🇺🇦🇪🇺<p>📢 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scientometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scientometric</span></a> indicators in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> evaluation and research <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misconduct</span></a>: analysis of the Russian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a> excellence initiative</p><p>👉 "The results showed that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RUEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RUEI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a> had a significantly higher number of retracted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publications</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WoS</span></a> - and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> -indexed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journals</span></a>, suggesting that pressure to meet quantitative scientometric <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/indicators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indicators</span></a> may have encouraged unethical research practices and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/researchmisconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>researchmisconduct</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05269-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s11192-025-05269-3</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retractions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/researchintegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>researchintegrity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p>
Serhii Nazarovets<p>New <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/preprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preprint</span></a> 📢 - Can <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> compete with <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> in bibliometric analysis?</p><p>👉 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18427" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2502.18427</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OpenAlex</span></a></span> has broader coverage and shows higher correlation with certain expert assessments.</p><p>At the same time, it has issues with metadata completeness and document classification.</p><p>❗ Most intriguingly: it turns out that raw <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/citation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>citation</span></a> counts perform just as well, and in some cases even better, than normalized indicators, which have long been considered the standard in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/scientometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientometrics</span></a>.</p>
Serhii Nazarovets<p>Finally, our paper has an official issue number and page range! Our study Ukrainian Arts & Humanities Research in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> is now officially published in Library Hi Tech!</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-05-2023-0180" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1108/LHT-05-2023-01</span><span class="invisible">80</span></a></p><p>Key findings:<br>📈 Ukrainian A&H research is growing but struggles with impact<br>📉 Over half of publications remain uncited<br>🌍 International collaboration & English boost visibility<br>📰 Many papers appear in local or Russian-oriented journals</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bibliometrics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UkrainianResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkrainianResearch</span></a></p>
WikiPicBot<p>𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬</p><p> ✧ hamerkop ✧ </p><p>The hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) is a medium-sized wading bird. It is the only living species in the genus Scopus and the family Scopidae. Its closest relatives are thought to be the pelicans and the shoebill, in the order Pelecaniformes. The shape of its head with a long bill and crest at the back is reminiscent of a hammer, which has given this specie...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LakeBaringo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LakeBaringo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Arabia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arabia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kenya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kenya</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamerkop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamerkop</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ludo Waltman<p>Earlier this week an opinion piece authored by me and a number of great colleagues was published on the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@upstream" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>upstream</span></a></span> blog. Our piece introduces criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases <a href="https://doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p>We express our deep concerns about the treatment of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@eLife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eLife</span></a></span> by the <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> and <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> databases. We see this as an example of databases hindering rather than supporting innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.cwts.nl/@cwts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cwts</span></a></span></p>
Ludo Waltman<p>Good news at <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/CNRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CNRS</span></a> Open Science Day:</p><p>"CNRS's cancellation of <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> subscription will help support its full transition to open, non-commercial model, a point reiterated by Antoine Petit ... 'We will eventually need to stop using commercial databases for bibliometrics and bibliography'. In the meantime CNRS has maintained subscription to Clarivate's <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> database while free bibliographic databases are being developed like open access not-for-profit solution <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OpenAlex</span></a></span>."</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@BarcelonaDORI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BarcelonaDORI</span></a></span></p>
Christian Boulanger<p>The <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bibliometrics</span></a> databases <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> "are not global databases of knowledge" but lead to a decrease of epistemic diversity. A call for "a more globally representative, non-profit, community-controlled infrastructure for the global pool of research knowledge" <a href="https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qhvgr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qhvgr</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
(((@amarois)))<p>[Veille] "A study of nearly 400,000 scientists across 38 countries finds that one-third of them quit science within five years of authoring their first paper, and almost half leave within a decade."<br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/scientometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientometrics</span></a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scopus</span></a> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03222-7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-024</span><span class="invisible">-03222-7</span></a></p>
edp sciences<p>🎉Great news! EPJ Web of Conferences has been indexed in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> ! <br>This achievement reflects the high standards of quality and impact of our publications. <br>Find out more➡️ <a href="https://buff.ly/3Nb8v9G" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3Nb8v9G</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPJWebOfConferences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EPJWebOfConferences</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScienceMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceMastodon</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificPublishing</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ScienceScholar</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@academia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicsunite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicsunite</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/phdlife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phdlife</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/phdstudents" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>phdstudents</span></a></span></p>
In the Dark <a href="https://telescoper.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/libraryblog_220818_scopus.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <p>I think it’s time to provide an update on the (lack of) progress getting <a href="https://astro.theoj.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Open Journal of Astrophysics </a>properly indexed in Scopus (which markets itself as a purveyor of “metrics you can trust”).</p><p>You might recall back in June that <a href="https://telescoper.blog/2024/06/10/seriously-scopus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I reported</a> that OJAp had been included in the index, but unfortunately the Scopus team messed up very badly by omitting about one-third of our papers and most of our citations. Here’s what they did:</p> <a href="https://telescoper.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/scopus_crap.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <p>In the column marked <em>Documents 2020-23</em> you will see the number 67. In fact we published 99 articles between 2020 and 2023, not 67. This is easily established <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&fq_database=(database%3Aastronomy%20OR%20database%3Aphysics)&q=bibstem%3AOJAp%20year%3A2020-2023&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&p_=0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>. The number 67 relates to the period <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&fq_database=(database%3Aastronomy%20OR%20database%3Aphysics)&q=bibstem%3AOJAp%20year%3A2022-2023&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&p_=0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2022-23 only</a>. Accidentally or deliberately, Scopus has omitted a third of our papers from its database. But the error doesn’t end there. Papers published in OJAp between 2020 and 2023 have actually been cited 959 times, not 137. If you restrict the count to papers published in 2022-23 there are 526 citations. It’s no wonder that OJAp has such a low <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/products/scopus/metrics/citescore" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CiteScore</a>, and consequently appears so far down the rankings, when the citation information is so woefully inaccurate. “Metrics you can trust?” My arse!</p><p>If you want accurate bibliometric information about the papers published in the two years that Scopus has chosen to ignore you can look <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/fq=%7B!type%3Daqp%20v%3D%24fq_database%7D&fq_database=(database%3Aastronomy%20OR%20database%3Aphysics)&q=bibstem%3AOJAp%20year%3A2020-2021&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&p_=0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>I sent this information to Scopus on 15th June, soon after noticing the error, but I then got shunted around. I eventually got a reply on 23rd August, acknowledging the mistake and including this:</p><blockquote><p>I want to assure you that your request has been promptly forwarded to our technical team for the addition of the paper to our database. While we strive to resolve this as swiftly as possible, please be aware that this correction process may take up to four weeks to be completed. </p></blockquote><p>I think they’re using some definition of “promptly” with which I am unfamiliar. I’m not optimistic that they will actually correct it in four weeks, either, since it took 5 months to get the initial 67 papers indexed.</p><p>This all merely demonstrates the folly that so many institutions place so much trust in Scopus. Based on my interactions with them, I wouldn’t trust them with anything at all. Unfortunately the powers that be have decided that Scopus listing is such a reliable indicator of quality that any article not published in a Scopus journal is worthless. Knowing that it has a monopoly, Scopus has no incentive to put any effort into its own quality assurance. It can peddle any error-ridden tripe to its subscribers, most of them paying for the product with taxpayers’ money. </p><p>(I might add that if OJAp were a commercial journal, then the willful publication of demonstrably false information about it would be actionable as it is potentially damaging to business. )</p><p>Presumably at the instigation of senior management, IT services at Maynooth University are still banning access to this blog from campus. It would make far more sense for them to ban Scopus.</p><p><a href="https://telescoper.blog/2024/09/05/scopus-should-be-banned/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://telescoper.blog/2024/09/05/scopus-should-be-banned/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/censorship/" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/maynooth-university/" target="_blank">#MaynoothUniversity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/open-journal-of-astrophysics/" target="_blank">#OpenJournalOfAstrophysics</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://telescoper.blog/tag/scopus/" target="_blank">#SCOPUS</a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. More on the incompleteness of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WOS</span></a> and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> in covering <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/African" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>African</span></a> journals, and the comparative comprehensiveness of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OpenAlex</span></a></span>).<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01120" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2409.01120</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Stefan Zitz<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@MartinVuilleme" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MartinVuilleme</span></a></span> I guess it is the latter. In the message he/she talks about <a href="https://julialang.social/tags/scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scopus</span></a> and the need to increase his/her H-index by one.</p>
v_i_o_l_a<p>"<a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> is broken – just look at its literature category" @ Retraction Watch: <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2024/07/17/scopus-is-broken-just-look-at-its-literature-category/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retractionwatch.com/2024/07/17</span><span class="invisible">/scopus-is-broken-just-look-at-its-literature-category/</span></a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>Why prioritize <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/GoogleScholar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleScholar</span></a> citation metrics over competitors?</p><p>Because <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> probably finds way more citations than other citation trackers like <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> or <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a>.</p><p>See Figure 4 from <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.09.002" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.09.</span><span class="invisible">002</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/scientometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientometrics</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/metaScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaScience</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>New study: "Non-selective databases (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Dimensions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dimensions</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Scilit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scilit</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TheLens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheLens</span></a>) index a greater amount of retracted literature than do databases that rely their indexation on venue selection (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PubMed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PubMed</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a>, and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WoS</span></a>)…The high coverage of OpenAlex and Scilit could be explained by the inaccurate labeling of retracted documents in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a>, Dimensions, and The Lens."<br><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-05034-y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s11192-024-05034-y</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Retractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Retractions</span></a></p>
Joao Granja-Correia :rstats:<p>Navigating bibliometric data extraction from WOS and Scopus can be tricky. In my latest post, I provide a step-by-step guide to help you efficiently gather and format the data for your research using the bibliometrix package in R.</p><p>Check out my new blog post here: joao.granja-correia.eu/blog/blog_20240701_bibliometric_data/</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bibliometrics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WOS</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DataAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataAnalysis</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RStats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RStats</span></a></p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>Last year, Scopus blitzed all links to journal websites from their profiles in a clumsy reaction to their data being infiltrated by journal hijackers, i.e., fraudsters who pose as a real journal.</p><p>Did it work? No. They're still indexing hijacked content, notes Anna Abalkina on Retraction Watch.</p><p><a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/journal-hijackers-still-infiltrate-scopus-despite-its-efforts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18</span><span class="invisible">/journal-hijackers-still-infiltrate-scopus-despite-its-efforts/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HijackedJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HijackedJournals</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicationEthics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AnnaAbalkina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaAbalkina</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/RetractionWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetractionWatch</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AbstractingAndIndexing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbstractingAndIndexing</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JournalPublication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JournalPublication</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PredatoryJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryJournals</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PredatoryPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryPublishing</span></a></p>
Luuk van der Meer<p>Working on the first <a href="https://datasci.social/tags/LiteratureReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteratureReview</span></a> paper of my PhD, it stroke me that besides <a href="https://datasci.social/tags/GoogleScholar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleScholar</span></a> the commonly recommended search interfaces <a href="https://datasci.social/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a> and <a href="https://datasci.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> are behind paywalls. What are the alternatives if you want to support <a href="https://datasci.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a> and <a href="https://datasci.social/tags/reproduciblescience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reproduciblescience</span></a> in an interdisciplinary study?</p>
@olaf_brandt<p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/unbrauchbar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unbrauchbar</span></a> <br>How a widely used ranking system ended up with three fake journals in its top 10 philosophy list – Retraction Watch<br><a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/12/how-a-widely-used-ranking-system-ended-up-with-three-fake-journals-in-its-top-10-philosophy-list/?s=09" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retractionwatch.com/2024/06/12</span><span class="invisible">/how-a-widely-used-ranking-system-ended-up-with-three-fake-journals-in-its-top-10-philosophy-list/?s=09</span></a></p>
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