Abdelghani Maddi
@amaddi.bsky.social
Research Engineer at @gemass-socio.bsky.social (CNRS | Sorbonne University). Scientometrics, Research evaluation, Open Science, and Research integrity. Views are my own.
https://www.gemass.fr/member/maddi-abdelghani/
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Abdelghani Maddi
@amaddi.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Open Science Initiatives Tracker
This dashboard provides a dynamic and community-driven overview of Open Science initiatives around the world.
amcm.shinyapps.io
🚀 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
🎉 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
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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
What we all agreed on right away: this push needs to happen via strong funder and institutional policies w/out for-profit publisher interference
New preprint on the drain that for-profit publishers place on the scientific ecosystem. We also point out that, though it's often presented as a global problem, it's actually a Global North problem: there are parts of the world with strong diamond #OA non-profit alternatives arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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
What we all agreed on right away: this push needs to happen via strong funder and institutional policies w/out for-profit publisher interference
Reposted by Abdelghani Maddi
Today, I presented retractbase.csic.es, our open database about retractions, in Bristol STI-ENID Conference. @stienid2025.bsky.social with a very good reception
September 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today, I presented retractbase.csic.es, our open database about retractions, in Bristol STI-ENID Conference. @stienid2025.bsky.social with a very good reception
🚀 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
🎉 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
Open Science Initiatives Tracker
This dashboard provides a dynamic and community-driven overview of Open Science initiatives around the world.
amcm.shinyapps.io
September 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🚀 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
🎉 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
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👇 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".
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".
We are proud to announce a new agreement with @rorinstitute.bsky.social and @aimosinc.bsky.social to become a partner journal with MetaResearch Open Review (MetaRoR) @metaror.bsky.social
#metaresearch #openscience 🧪
Learn more: plos.io/45wPZB9
#metaresearch #openscience 🧪
Learn more: plos.io/45wPZB9
PLOS Biology announces agreement to become a MetaROR partner journal - The Official PLOS Blog
Note: PLOS issued the following press release on Thursday, August 14th. SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, PLOS Biology announced a new agreement…
plos.io
August 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
👇 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".
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".
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[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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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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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.
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
[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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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...
🎥 cassyni.com/s/metasc...
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cassyni.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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...
🎥 cassyni.com/s/metasc...
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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...
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 ...
leblob.fr
July 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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...
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Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it
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…
retractionwatch.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Reviewer accused of stealing manuscript and publishing it as his own denies he refereed it
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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....
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...
doi.org
July 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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....
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🚨 Save the Date!
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...
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...
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…
lisbibliometrics.wordpress.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨 Save the Date!
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...
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...
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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
June 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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
🇨🇳 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
www.mdpi.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📢 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
🇨🇳 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
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🚨 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 📦
🧵 1/12
We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦
🧵 1/12
June 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🚨 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 📦
🧵 1/12
We’re thrilled to launch lissyrtools v0.2.0 — our R package that makes working with LIS & LWS microdata simpler, faster, and clearer 📦
🧵 1/12
"Consultation nationale : les Français montrent leur intérêt pour les sciences"
www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
June 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"Consultation nationale : les Français montrent leur intérêt pour les sciences"
www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
www.cnrs.fr/fr/actualite...
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📣 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...
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
June 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
📣 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...
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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📢 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...
OSF
doi.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📢 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
"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
Open Science, Open Innovation? The Role of Open Access in Patenting Activity
Scientific knowledge is a key driver of technological innovation, shaping industrial development and policy decisions worldwide. Understanding how patents incorporate scientific research is essential ...
hal.science
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🆕 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
"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
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We need more studies like this👍 thank you Sam
“I just very much love the journal”: Understanding the community-led publishing landscape at the University of Cambridge
New article by me and Mandy Wigdorowitz.
f1000research.com/articles/14-...
New article by me and Mandy Wigdorowitz.
f1000research.com/articles/14-...
F1000Research Article: “I just very much love the journal”: Understanding the community-led publishing landscape at the University of Cambridge.
Read the latest article version by Samuel Moore, Mandy Wigdorowitz, at F1000Research.
f1000research.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
We need more studies like this👍 thank you Sam
"Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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.
www.nature.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Huge reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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🎓 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...
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)
www.gemass.fr
April 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
🎓 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?" 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
"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
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,...
arxiv.org
April 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📄 "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
"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...
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airtable.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🔎 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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
April 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"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...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Choose France for Science : anr.fr/fr/actualite...
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...
anr.fr
April 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
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
April 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
🇨🇳 #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
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