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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 12h

What does it mean to use #genAI "responsibly" in research? In this post, @petertarras.bsky.social & I respond to a taxonomy which equates disclosure of use with transparency & responsibility. We object to this & call for more conversations about how & why it's used, who is harmed, & who benefits.

Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 15h

Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social and I have responded to a blog, recently published on @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social, which argued that using AI responsibly in research means being transparent about it. We object that supposed transparency obscures more fundamental ethical questions.

Why AI transparency is not enough

Recently, a taxonomy to disclose the use of generative AI (genAI) in research outputs was presented as an approach that creates transparency and thereby supports responsible genAI use. In this post we...

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · 14h

📄 We have a new blog post! Read it below 👇

Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 15h

Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social and I have responded to a blog, recently published on @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social, which argued that using AI responsibly in research means being transparent about it. We object that supposed transparency obscures more fundamental ethical questions.

Why AI transparency is not enough

Recently, a taxonomy to disclose the use of generative AI (genAI) in research outputs was presented as an approach that creates transparency and thereby supports responsible genAI use. In this post we...

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Serhii Nazarovets @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social · Aug 25

The blog of @cwts.nl @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social world-leading #scientometrics centre, has spotlighted #GAIDeT. The question is no longer if #AI use in research should be declared, but how to do it transparently and responsibly. 👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai... #AcademicPublishing

GAIDeT: a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing

Transparency of AI use in academia matters for authors, editors, reviewers, readers and repository moderators. This blog post introduces GAIDeT, a taxonomy for the structured disclosure of Generative ...

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 Transparency in AI use in academia is urgently needed. In this blog post, @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social, Natalia Tsybuliak, Jaime A. Texeira da Silva & @yanasychikova.bsky.social introduce GAIDeT - a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research.

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GAIDeT: a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research and publishing

Transparency of AI use in academia matters for authors, editors, reviewers, readers and repository moderators. This blog post introduces GAIDeT, a taxonomy for the structured disclosure of Generative ...

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Aug 14

📄 Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. Sagartirtha Chakraborty
shows how this situation compares to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains the connection with predatory journals, and outlines solutions.

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Academic publishing – stuck in a prisoner’s dilemma?

Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. Our author shows how this strategic trap can be compared to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains how this s...

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · Aug 12

Did you know we’re in the process of creating and establishing a reporting guideline for bibliometric analysis? Items in the list are based on evidence from the literature and expert opinion and now we’re looking for pilot participants to test the guideline’s real-world usefulness in making… (1/2)

Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Aug 12

📝 Today, the team behind the GLOBAL reporting guideline invites researchers who are preparing or reviewing a bibliometric article to take part in a pilot test of the guideline.

👇 Find more information in the article below

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Making bibliometric reporting more transparent and consistent: Participants needed for pilot testing of GLOBAL

The team behind the GLOBAL reporting guideline invites researchers who are preparing or reviewing a bibliometric article to take part in a pilot test of the guideline.

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Aug 12

👏 Thanks to the authors for their contribution: Jeremy Y. Ng, Dimity Stephen, David Moher, @ludowaltman.bsky.social and @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Aug 12

📝 Today, the team behind the GLOBAL reporting guideline invites researchers who are preparing or reviewing a bibliometric article to take part in a pilot test of the guideline.

👇 Find more information in the article below

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Making bibliometric reporting more transparent and consistent: Participants needed for pilot testing of GLOBAL

The team behind the GLOBAL reporting guideline invites researchers who are preparing or reviewing a bibliometric article to take part in a pilot test of the guideline.

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Jul 22

🙏 A big thank you to our contributing authors: Matías Alcántara, Mariángela Nápoli, Judith Naidorf, @rodrigocostas.bsky.social & @ismaelrafols.bsky.social

Analysing research funding flows in the Global South

In a context marked by deep asymmetries in access to research resources, the research project “Tracking Research Funding Flows in the Global South” aims to make visible and analyze the ways in which i...

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Jul 22

💸 Our latest blog post describes how the research project “Tracking Research Funding Flows in the Global South” by @clacso.bsky.social, @cwts.nl & Siris Academic aims to make visible & analyze ways in which international science funding circulates.

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Analysing research funding flows in the Global South

In a context marked by deep asymmetries in access to research resources, the research project “Tracking Research Funding Flows in the Global South” aims to make visible and analyze the ways in which i...

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 3

🎉 That’s a wrap on Metascience 2025!

Three packed days of ideas, debates, and community - and we’re still buzzing from it all.

We’re grateful to all who spoke, chaired, presented, posted, and participated for making #Metascience2025 such a dynamic gathering 🌍

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Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · Jul 2

#metascience2025 day three @rorinstitute.bsky.social fellow, André Brasil presenting on #MetaRoR as a key step in #PRC (Publish, Review, Curate) - service, portal, PRC initiative and ALSO a research project -- investigating/experimenting and reporting AS they do the work

Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · May 27

🎓 In our newest blog post, Tanya Lee and Ana Parrón Cabañero explore how PhD trajectories at @unileiden.bsky.social could better reflect the diverse activities, needs and expectations of PhD candidates and why this matters now.

Read more here. 👇
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Beyond the dissertation: Reshaping PhD trajectories at Leiden University

Open Science and the reform of research assessment are increasingly growing together. Time to also rethink the evaluation of PhD candidates! Talking to six PhD candidates, the authors found that PhD p...

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · May 22

For more details, see the @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social blog post that I published today together with Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the....

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The state of preprinting in Europe and the Netherlands

To accelerate the sharing of scientific knowledge, researchers in many disciplines increasingly publish their work on preprint servers. In this post, Ludo Waltman and colleagues discuss the state of p...

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · May 22

How does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries?

Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors.

Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.

Preprint adoption by European countries

Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · May 22

To accelerate the sharing of scientific knowledge, researchers increasingly publish their work on preprint servers. In our latest blog post, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social discuss the state of preprinting in Europe and the Netherlands.

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The state of preprinting in Europe and the Netherlands

To accelerate the sharing of scientific knowledge, researchers in many disciplines increasingly publish their work on preprint servers. In this post, Ludo Waltman and colleagues discuss the state of p...

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · May 15

📢 New blog post! The Evaluation and Culture focal area at CWTS reflects on two years of work toward fairer research evaluation, inclusive cultures, and better scholarly communication.

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#researchculture #scholarlycommunication #researchevaluation

Setting the course: our first two years in the focal area Evaluation & Culture

The Evaluation and Culture focal area at CWTS is dedicated to studying, discussing, and advocating for renewed forms of scholarly communication, fair research evaluation, and inclusive research cultur...

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · May 8

Together with Fernanda Beigel, @cwtsleiden.bsky.social colleague @ismaelrafols.bsky.social offers a highly critical perspective on developments in open science. Worth a read!

Inclusiveness vs openness

Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · May 8

🌏 In our latest blogpost, @ismaelrafols.bsky.social and Fernanda Beigel discuss whether open science actually fulfils its expectations of leading to more equity and improving research's societal impact.

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The contested field of Open Science: a debate through the lens of inclusion

Most implementations of Open Science do not fulfil the expectations that Open Science will lead to more equity and improve the societal impact of research. We discuss these worrying trends through the...

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 28

CWTS | Leiden University is hiring a PhD candidate to research paper mills and manipulation in publishing, supervised by RoRI researchers. Apply here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

PhD Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research Publishing

PhD candidate Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research PublishingThe past decade has seen the rise of distinct new challenges for research integrity in the context of scientific publishing....

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Apr 15

💼 CWTS, in collaboration with the publishing company Wiley, is opening a new position for a PhD candidate to carry out research on paper mills and related forms of systematic manipulation in publishing.

Find out more about the project in our new blog post 👇 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/adv...

Advancing our Understanding of Systematic Manipulation & Paper Mills: Wiley & CWTS Partnership

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University, in collaboration with the publishing company Wiley, is opening a new position for a PhD candidate to carry out research on paper mil...

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨 Science in the US faces major challenges, including attacks on diversity, equity & inclusion, and climate science. In our new blog post, CWTS’ focal areas respond and outline continuous efforts to improve how science is practiced, governed, and valued.

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Strengthening science through diversity

Science in the US is under attack, with banned words, funding cuts, and threats to diversity, equity & inclusion and climate science. These actions harm science. CWTS’ focal areas respond, aligned wit...

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 26

Accepting the status quo in scientific publishing while rejecting journal-based information in research assessments leads to a schizophrenic situation for researchers, says @ludowaltman.bsky.social

Why assessment and publishing reform must go hand in hand: www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/ass...

Assessment reform and publishing reform need to go hand in hand

The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, Ludo Waltman argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful onl...

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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · Mar 26

I just published a blog post arguing that the reform movements for research assessment and scientific publishing need to better align their agendas. This is crucial for the success of both movements.

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Assessment reform and publishing reform need to go hand in hand

The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, Ludo Waltman argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful onl...

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Leiden Madtrics @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social · Mar 26

🤝 The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, @ludowaltman.bsky.social argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful only if they manage to align their agendas.

👇 Read about it in our latest blog post

Assessment reform and publishing reform need to go hand in hand

The need to reform research assessment and scientific publishing practices is widely recognized. However, Ludo Waltman argues that the assessment and publishing reform movements will be successful onl...

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