Information Science

The Barcelona Declaration represented a major step towards the adoption of open data for scientometrics and science policy. This blogpost discusses the importance of also moving towards democratising the access and use of these open resources, by sharing our experience from Campinas in Brazil.

گوگل از قوی‌ترین تراشه هوش مصنوعی خود موسوم به تریلیوم(Trillium) با بهره‌وری انرژی ۶۷ درصدی رونمایی کرد.

Keynote at Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community (BRIC) conference, in Vancouver, Canada, 5 June 2024 Outline of the talk: A brief history of research assessment infrastructure A century of bibliometric methods: from library to research management Science Citation Index: from World Brain to counting house Scopus and Elsevier: from publisher to data analytics company Research assessment through a data feminist lens Examine power: matrix of domination Challenge power: who is doing the counting Elevate emotion and embodiment: valuing multiple forms of knowledge Rethink binaries and hierarchies: what gets counted counts Embrace pluralism: bibliometric unicorns, wizards and janitors Consider context: the numbers don’t speak for themselves Make labor visible: recognize and value the work of many hands Program:

پژوهشگران چین در پژوهش جدید خود نشان داده‌اند که تصویربرداری حرارتی صورت و هوش مصنوعی می‌توانند وجود بیماری سرخرگ کرونری را به دقت پیش‌بینی کنند.

Nature - Unreliable data, falsification and other issues related to misconduct are driving a growing proportion of retractions.

Nature - Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read.

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) came into being to try to end the misuse of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in the evaluation of research and researchers and has achieved considerable success in advancing reform of assessment practices. However, there are a number of other quantitative indicators derived from publishing activity which are used in research assessment and DORA is often asked for its views on their merits.