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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...
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University rankings should be used in a responsible manner26 September 2018The Leiden Centre of Science and Techonology Studies has developed 10 principles that are intended to guide the responsible use of university rankings.
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CWTS chooses new leadership - Sarah de Rijcke new director24 September 2018
The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (Leiden University) has adopted a new governance structure. As of January 1, 2019, the centre will be le...
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Sarah de Rijcke wins ERC Starting Grant15 August 2018With a success rate of approximately one in ten, receiving an ERC Starting Grant is a notable achievement. Recently, the European Commission announced...
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young Leiden University researchers26 July 2018The European Research Council has awarded a Starting Grant to five early career scientists from Leiden University. They received funding up to 1.5 mil...