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Centre for Science and Technology Studies

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) is a research institute at Leiden University working on improving how science is practiced and governed and how it serves society. Besides our cutting-edge research, we also provide training, consultancy, and research intelligence, we engage in advocacy initiatives, and we contribute to policy making. Our work focuses on three broad areas: (1) societal engagement and inclusion in the research system, (2) responsible research evaluation and healthy research cultures, and (3) openness of research information.

Blog

  • Monitoring Open Science in The Netherlands

    Support for Open Science in the Netherlands has led to institutional programs across universities to promote open research practices. This blog post discusses a workshop where those program representatives met to explore opportunities for monitoring and evaluating Open Science within Dutch research.

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  • Reusing data: bridging the distance between data consumers and producers

    The development of open research data has generally been from the perspective of producers sharing data; we argue that it is vital to include the consumer perspective. In this blog post, we report insights gained from a workshop held in November 2024 exploring data reuse from different perspectives.

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  • Benchmarking in research evaluations: we can do without it

    The Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP) 2021-2027 proposes benchmarking as a method for evaluating research units. But what exactly does this entail and what are the risks? Our authors dive deeper into this topic and show what is possible and what to be careful about.

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