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  In conclusion, The transition of the Leiden Ranking towards open data (both in the data used and in data and algorithms made openly available) does not stand on its own, but fits into wider discussions around open research information and changes in research assessment culture, including discussions on the value of rankings themselves. /end

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  2 (cont'd)/ This could be a way to explore and potentially address existing biases, e.g. in language and geographical diversity. The use of open data allows such experiments to be conducted in the open, and for the results to be evaluated against existing indicators. /

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  Very happy to be working with SCOSS over the next months to help bring more support to open scholarly infrastructure: The 4th pledging round is announced today, with Dryad, LA Referencia and ROR https://tinyurl.com/SCOSSpledging

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  Very proud of Utrecht University @utrechtuniversity for choosing not to participate in the THE 2024 World University Ranking (by not supplying information). That's how it can be done. https://dub.uu.nl/nl/nieuws/universiteit-utrecht-doet-niet-meer-mee-met-ranking (in Dutch)

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  Upon last week's news that Elsevier is following Springer Nature in having abstracts removed from @OpenAlex I've published a blog post looking more in detail at abstract coverage in @crossref and OpenAlex, and discussing some of the implications: https://bmkramer.github.io/SesameOpenScience_site/thought/202411_open_abstracts/ #openmetadata #openresearchinformation #barcelonadeclaration

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  Today @cwtsleiden launches the Leiden Ranking Open Edition - fully based on open data, and with underlying data and code made openly available: https://open.leidenranking.com/resources Read more in detail about it on the @leidenmadtrics blog: https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/introducing-the-leiden-ranking-open-edition This was a fruitful collaboration between CWTS, COKI (@cameronneylon and @LucyMontgomery_) and @OpenAlex that I was happy to be involved in - congrats @LudoWaltman @nees...

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  Good news for Open Research Information! @OpenAlex is rapidly closing the gap in funding metadata coverage. We (re)used a dataset of NWO-funded papers and conclude that OpenAlex is now performing on par with Elsevier's Scopus and just slightly behind Dimensions - just a few months after the start of a Wellcome Trust-funded project to improve funding metadata. Full analysis w/ @HLdeJonge 🔗 https://bmkramer.github.io/SesameOpenScience_site/thought/202603_open_funding_information/

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  Excited to announce I've been appointed Executive Director of the Barcelona Declaration @BarcelonaDORI , (alongside my other consulting activities). We have funding for the next 3 years and will soon discuss the creation of a governance board. https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20250207_whats_next_for_the_barcelona_declaration/

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  Is there a relationship between the metadata publishers submit to Crossref and the submission systems they use? 🤔 In this new preprint with @HLdeJonge, we analyzed 153 publishers and 4 major systems to find out. 👉 https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/ndx3f_v1 #OpenScience #Crossref #OpenMetadata #Publishing

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  Newly updated OpenAIRE graph dataset (snapshot date 2026-01-29) now available on Google Big Query as part of ORION collective https://orion-dbs.community/ Thanks @OpenAIRE @OpenAIREGraph for making the dataset available to share!