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petersuber<p>The University of Utrecht is canceling the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> and offering training sessions on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a>. <br><a href="https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of</span><span class="invisible">-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026</span></a></p><p>"Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a>. Closed commercial databases, such as Web of Science, are not in line with our desire to work with open research information as much as possible. The UU signed the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BarcelonaDeclaration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BarcelonaDeclaration</span></a> in 2024 to this effect. The use of Journal Impact Factors [<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/JIFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JIFs</span></a>] is also not in line with our vision of Open Science…With the funds freed up by not renewing the licence, we will continue to invest in open source research and infrastructure."</p>
Raymond Dekker<p>The University Library has decided not to renew its licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports). Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on Open Science.</p><p><a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/UtrechtUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UtrechtUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/UniversityLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/Utrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Utrecht</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of</span><span class="invisible">-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026</span></a></p>
ndocist<p>July 31, 2025 Release Notes: Web of Science Smart Search Opt-out – Web of Science<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/clarivate" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>clarivate</span></a></span> impose sa recherche par <a href="https://oc.todon.fr/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> Interface par défaut dans <a href="https://oc.todon.fr/tags/webofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webofscience</span></a> <br>Laissant quand même une option d'opt-out aux utilisateurs<br><a href="https://webofscience.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/37793163270545-July-31-2025-Release-Notes-Web-of-Science-Smart-Search-Opt-out#h_01K1V3AV9SZB64HRVWHHJ8XQTA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">webofscience.zendesk.com/hc/en</span><span class="invisible">-us/articles/37793163270545-July-31-2025-Release-Notes-Web-of-Science-Smart-Search-Opt-out#h_01K1V3AV9SZB64HRVWHHJ8XQTA</span></a></p>
FID Romanistik<p>The Trends of <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> Academic Books and Discipline<br>Dynamics: A Cross-database Comparison Based on <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a><br>and <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a><br>Li Jiangbo, Niu Shihang, Ouyang Wenhao, Li Jian, Zhang Mingyue: <a href="https://doi.org/10.51408/issi2025_038" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.51408/issi2025_038</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (pdf)</p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>Damian Pattinson of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@eLife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eLife</span></a></span> (and my former boss at PLOS ONE) at The Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing conference describes the devastating effect on their submissions of Clarivate removing their Impact Factor due to their change in peer review model, then asks why other journals, including Science, don't renounce their own IFs.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JournalPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JournalPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ImpactFactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImpactFactor</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Clarivate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clarivate</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeerReview</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/TheRoyalSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRoyalSociety</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/FutureOfScientificPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureOfScientificPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Citations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Citations</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bibliometrics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ResearchImpact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchImpact</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ResearchAssessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchAssessment</span></a></p>
Christian Boulanger<p>Ever wondered why no <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bibliometrics</span></a> lit on <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholarship</span></a> exists? Our new SSRN paper (@mpilhlt Research Paper Series 2025-10, with D. Fejzo, C. Rimmert) shows: we don't have the data. <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/webofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webofscience</span></a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scopus</span></a> don't cut it, only <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/openalex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openalex</span></a> is somewhat useful.</p><p><a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5350481" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5350481</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Natural Gas Industry B updates<p>We are so excited to share you this good news that 2024 Impact Factor of NGIB is 6.5, ranking 52/182 in category of Energy&amp;Fuels! Thank you all supporters! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/impactfactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impactfactor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/naturalgas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>naturalgas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalmetrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalmetrics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openaccess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webofscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ESCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESCI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCIE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCIE</span></a></p>
steph.space<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> <a href="https://openalex.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">openalex.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Interesting open-access alternative to scientific literature databases like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a></p><p>From: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@tub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tub</span></a></span><br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/@tub@openbiblio.social/114559706766379637" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openbiblio.social/@tub@openbib</span><span class="invisible">lio.social/114559706766379637</span></a></p>
Universitätsbibliothek TUHH<p>Googlen könnt ihr. ✔️ Für die systematische Suchen sind <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Datenbanken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datenbanken</span></a> dann die nächste Challenge. <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a> und <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scopus</span></a> sind hierfür wichtige Angebote von Verlagen, die wir für euch finanzieren. </p><p>Aber es gibt auch eine freie Alternative. Florian stellt euch <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenAlex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAlex</span></a> vor. Wir sind gespannt auf eure Erfahrungen. </p><p><a href="https://www.tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2025/05/20/was-ist-openalex-und-wie-kann-man-es-fuer-die-recherche-nutzen/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2025/05</span><span class="invisible">/20/was-ist-openalex-und-wie-kann-man-es-fuer-die-recherche-nutzen/</span></a></p>
ndocist<p>Journal Article: “Data Sources Used in <a href="https://oc.todon.fr/tags/Bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bibliometrics</span></a> 1978–2022: From Proprietary Databases to the Great Wide Open”<br>Stable pattern with <a href="https://oc.todon.fr/tags/webofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webofscience</span></a> and <a href="https://oc.todon.fr/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a><br>Current emphasis on <a href="https://oc.todon.fr/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <br>Are we entering the great wide open, or will established proprietary databases remain a dominating source?<br><a href="https://www.infodocket.com/2025/05/16/journal-article-data-sources-used-in-bibliometrics-1978-2022-from-proprietary-databases-to-the-great-wide-open/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">infodocket.com/2025/05/16/jour</span><span class="invisible">nal-article-data-sources-used-in-bibliometrics-1978-2022-from-proprietary-databases-to-the-great-wide-open/</span></a></p>
Universitätsbibliothek TUHH<p>Systematische Suche nach Literatur? Hierfür gibt es Fachdatenbanken. </p><p>Zur Recherche in der wichtigen fachübergreifenden Datenbank Web of Science haben wir euch ein paar Tipps zusammengestellt gestellt. <br><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Literatursuche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Literatursuche</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2025/03/25/mehr-aus-web-of-science-rausholen-ein-blick-auf-ausgewaehlte-spezialwerkzeuge/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2025/03</span><span class="invisible">/25/mehr-aus-web-of-science-rausholen-ein-blick-auf-ausgewaehlte-spezialwerkzeuge/</span></a></p>
Ludo Waltman<p>Earlier this week an opinion piece authored by me and a number of great colleagues was published on the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/@upstream" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>upstream</span></a></span> blog. Our piece introduces criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases <a href="https://doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.54900/d3ck1-skq19</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p>We express our deep concerns about the treatment of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@eLife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eLife</span></a></span> by the <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> and <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> databases. We see this as an example of databases hindering rather than supporting innovation in scholarly communication and research assessment.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.cwts.nl/@cwts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cwts</span></a></span></p>
David Colquhoun<p>Today's haul. Email from @clarivate.com / <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> to tell me about 17 citations of my work. Only one of the cited papers was mine. The incompetence corrupts science.</p>
Ludo Waltman<p>Good news at <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/CNRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CNRS</span></a> Open Science Day:</p><p>"CNRS's cancellation of <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> subscription will help support its full transition to open, non-commercial model, a point reiterated by Antoine Petit ... 'We will eventually need to stop using commercial databases for bibliometrics and bibliography'. In the meantime CNRS has maintained subscription to Clarivate's <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> database while free bibliographic databases are being developed like open access not-for-profit solution <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@OpenAlex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OpenAlex</span></a></span>."</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@BarcelonaDORI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>BarcelonaDORI</span></a></span></p>
Christian Boulanger<p>The <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bibliometrics</span></a> databases <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/WebofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebofScience</span></a> and <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> "are not global databases of knowledge" but lead to a decrease of epistemic diversity. A call for "a more globally representative, non-profit, community-controlled infrastructure for the global pool of research knowledge" <a href="https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qhvgr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qhvgr</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Ludo Waltman<p>The decision by <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> "therefore rewards journals for continuing the unhelpful practice of keeping peer review information hidden and unintentionally presenting incomplete and inadequate studies as sound science and punishes those journals that are more transparent."</p>
Ludo Waltman<p>Bodo Stern at <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/HHMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HHMI</span></a> is spot on in his assessment of the decision by <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> to stop indexing <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@eLife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eLife</span></a></span> articles: "Rather than helping move scholarly communication forward, Web of Science, by punishing a leader in the field, is in fact holding it back."</p><p><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/blog/how-the-web-of-science-takes-a-step-back/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">coalition-s.org/blog/how-the-w</span><span class="invisible">eb-of-science-takes-a-step-back/</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@cOAlitionS_OA" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cOAlitionS_OA</span></a></span></p>
Ludo Waltman<p>How we built a database of preprints <a href="https://blog.europepmc.org/2024/11/how-we-built-a-database-of-preprints.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.europepmc.org/2024/11/how</span><span class="invisible">-we-built-a-database-of-preprints.html</span></a></p><p>While <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/WebOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebOfScience</span></a> is 'delisting' innovative platforms such as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@eLife" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eLife</span></a></span>, <a href="https://social.cwts.nl/tags/EuropePMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropePMC</span></a> is moving in the opposite direction and is working hard to give maximal visibility to preprints and preprint reviews. Exemplary work!</p>
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Important reflections by @eLife on #WebOfScience decision to discontinue full indexing of eLife elifesciences.org/inside-elife.

"As journals that are partially indexed are not given Impact Factor, we won't receive one when metric is updated in June 2025. This is despite fact that partial feed would only include papers that WoS judges above threshold for inclusion and despite fact that papers we deem below this threshold can subsequently be published in SCIE-indexed journals."

eLifeThe eLife Model: An update on progress following changes in Web of Science indexing statusFollowing the decision that eLife will not receive an Impact Factor in 2025, we share an update on how our model is doing since we were first placed “on hold” by Web of Science, and what we’re up to now.
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