https://www.cwts.nl/blog Latest CWTS blog posts en-EN Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:17:09 +0200 https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-r2q274 Wed, 17 May 2017 12:33:00 +0200 We present ten principles that are intended to guide universities, students, governments, and other stakeholders in the responsible use of university rankings. https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2q274&title=ten-principles-for-the-responsible-use-of-university-rankings https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2z2a4 Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:30:00 +0200 Universities and their business sector partners (‘industry’) are at the heart of the UK science and innovation system. Many university-industry interactions (UIIs) start with, or are supported by, joint research between academic researchers and industry R&D staff employed by research-active business enterprises. Close personal relationships between individuals may also arise from the job mobility of postdocs, researchers or professors who cross over from academia and the corporate sector, or from those with temporary or part-time affiliations on either side. https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2z2a4&title=uk-universities-and-european-industry-inseparable-research-partners https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2z294 Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:54:00 +0200 There has been a resurgence of interest in the last few years regarding gender disparities and bias in science. https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2z294&title=the-end-of-gender-disparities-in-science-if-only-it-were-true https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2z254 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 07:45:00 +0100 Without any doubt, the journal impact factor (IF) is one of the most debated scientometric indicators. Especially the use of the IF for assessing individual articles and their authors is highly controversial. Most scientometricians reject this way of using the IF. They argue that the IF tells something about a journal as a whole and that it is statistically incorrect to extend its interpretation to individual articles in a journal. The well-known San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which has received widespread support in the scientific community, also strongly objects against the use of the IF at the level of individual articles. Even Clarivate Analytics, the company that calculates the IF, advices against IF-based assessment of individual articles. https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2z254&title=use-of-the-journal-impact-factor-for-assessing-individual-articles-need-not-be-wrong https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2y254 Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:42:00 +0100 Yesterday Elsevier launched the CiteScore journal metric. Ludo Waltman, responsible for the Advanced Bibliometric Methods working group at CWTS, answers some questions on the bibliometric aspects of this new metric. https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2y254&title=qa-on-elseviers-citescore-metric https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2x2b4 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:28:00 +0200 Today VOSviewer version 1.6.5  has been released. This new version of our software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks includes many improvements. In this blog post, we discuss some of the more important improvements. We also look ahead and discuss some anticipated future developments related to VOSviewer. https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2x2b4&title=vosviewer-latest-improvements-and-future-plans https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2x264 Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:35:00 +0200 Today the paper A large-scale analysis of impact factor biased journal self-citations has appeared in PLOS ONE. https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2x264&title=journal-self-citations-are-increasingly-biased-toward-impact-factor-years https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2x234 Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:36:00 +0200 Researchers in the field of scientometrics are quite often robust in their criticisms https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2x234&title=lets-move-beyond-too-simplistic-notions-of-misuse-and-unintended-effects-in-debates-on-the-jif https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2w2c4 Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:35:00 +0200 Last week, the paper A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions appeared online.  https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2w2c4&title=the-importance-of-taking-a-clear-position-in-the-impact-factor-debate https://www.cwts.nl/m-z294?article=n-q2w2b4 Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:30:00 +0200 Systematic knowledge on citation cartels of scientific journals is surprisingly scarce. https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-q2w2b4&title=what-do-we-know-about-journal-citation-cartels-a-call-for-information