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Latin American representatives visit Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences07 November 2019Each year, Latin American diplomats meet the researchers and students from Leiden University who specialise in their region. This year, they visited t...
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CWTS Halloween Special: Leiden Madtrics blog launch!31 October 2019Leiden Madtrics: metrics and matter that matters is officially live today! The blog is launched to invite the community to contribute on topics that p...
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Research on Research Institute launches: More strategic, open, diverse and inclusive research30 September 2019On Monday 30 September, Leiden University was one of the partners proud to announce the launch of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) - an inter...
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Social Science Matters: Open Science12 September 2019On 20 September 2019, the opening drinks for the Open Science Community Leiden will be held at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Open sc...
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‘What is the value of the social sciences?’09 September 2019At the Faculty's opening of the 2019-2020 academic year, the focus lay not just on the vision for the future of the social sciences, and the opening o...
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Two Leiden professors ‘top of the class’ according to ScienceGuide02 September 2019Professors Remco Breuker and Barend van der Meulen are ‘top of the class’ for academic year 2018-2019 according to ScienceGuide. This science magazine...
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‘Quantitative literacy’ would prevent unsound research policy20 June 2019Research impact is measured in different ways. However, these indicators are often based on dubious calculations, says Ludo Waltman. Inaugural lecture...
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Looking further than the impact factor28 May 2019
Broader and more-transparent metrics could help improve how academic quality is assessed. This is what Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS...
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‘Knowledge production must fundamentally change’17 May 2019‘Free-market economics has reduced the value of higher education to a question of efficiency and productivity,’ says Sarah de Rijcke. And, she adds, t...
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CWTS Leiden Ranking 2019: indicators open access and gender17 May 2019The new indicators introduced in the 2019 edition of the Leiden Ranking provide large-scale systematic evidence to inform science policy discussions o...
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How biased information on the internet can influence research06 March 2019The internet is a good place to rapidly collect large amounts of data. But if you don’t watch out you’ll collect very biased, one-sided data. These we...
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Symposium 'Fairness and Transparency, towards responsible data science'12 February 2019On March 5, CWTS and the Leiden University Data Science Research Programme will organize the symposium ‘Fairness and Transparency, towards responsible...
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Radboud and Leiden transparency declaration05 February 2019Researchers from the Institute for Science in Society (Radboud University Nijmegen) and CWTS (Leiden University) organized a workshop on the use of IT...
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Open access books attract many more readers and slightly more citations28 January 2019Academics who offer their books free online reach many more readers and are cited slightly more often. Surprisingly enough, it has little effect on th...
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KWR and CWTS join forces in research on social impact28 January 2019KWR Watercycle Research Institute and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University are collaborating in the area of socia...