blog migration – new platform

by Sarah de Rijcke November 22, 2011

We recently migrated our blog to a new platform. Please visit us at: http://citationculture.wordpress.comWe also moved the complete archive of posts and comments to this address. Kind regards,Paul Wouters and Sarah de RijckeOriginal post blogged o…

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PKP: From Scholarly Open Access Movement to Institutional Player

by Nicholas Jankowski November 16, 2011

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) recently held its 3rd international conference in Berlin, marking the ‘ coming of age’  of what started as a movement for open access publishing in the late 1990s. Then, a loose coalition of professors, librarians, and graduate students reacted to the increasingly expensive and closed character of many academic journals, [...]

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Journal ranking biased against interdisciplinary research

by P.F. Wouters November 15, 2011

The widespread use of rankings of journals in research
institutes and universities creates a disadvantage for interdisciplinary
research in assessment exercises such as the British Research Excellence
Framework. This is the conclusion of…

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Harvard no longer number 1 in ranking

by P.F. Wouters October 24, 2011

Recently, the new Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2011-2012 saw the light. The ranking revealed that Harvard University is no
longer number one on the list. Incidentally, the differences with Caltech – now
highest – are …

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Harvard no longer number 1 in ranking

by P.F. Wouters October 24, 2011

Recently, the new Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2011-2012 saw the light. The ranking revealed that Harvard University is no
longer number one on the list. Incidentally, the differences with Caltech – now
highest – are …

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Perspectives on computer simulation and data visualization

by Sarah de Rijcke October 18, 2011

When it comes to critical analysis of the role of computers,
data visualization, simulations and modeling in the sciences, there’s a lot to
be learned from humanities scholars. I’m currently teaching a course on the
role of computer-…

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Understanding Academic Careers

by Sarah de Rijcke October 10, 2011

On November 16, 2011, the Rathenau Institute and the VU University Amsterdam organize a symposium on Dynamics of Academic Leadership. The symposium addresses the conditions that are necessary for high level
performance and creativity in research, and…

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Science mapping: do we know what we visualize?

by Sarah de Rijcke October 3, 2011

A recent landmark in the field of science
mapping is Katy Börner’s Atlas of
Science: Visualizing What We Know (MIT Press, 2010). The atlas recently won
the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award 2011. The kinds of maps covered…

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Still using the Hirsch index? Don’t!

by P.F. Wouters September 26, 2011

“My research: > 185 papers, h-index 40.” A
random quote from a curriculum vitae in the World Wide Web. Sometimes,
researchers love their Hirsch index, better known as the h-index. But what does
the measure actually mean? I…

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Not much news in new Shanghai rankings

by P.F. Wouters September 14, 2011

Two weeks before the start of the 2011 academic season, the latest issue of
the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was published. The response
to this ranking in the Netherlands is telling about the importance ascribed to
glob…

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