Acknowledging the Difficulties: A Case Study of a Funding Text

Research on funding acknowledgments is in ascendance, with more data available and more studies done. Yet, there are specific challenges in accurately capturing this type of data. This blog post looks at a single publication's acknowledgment section in order to discuss several of these challenges.

Dan Gibson, Jeroen van Honk and Clara Calero-Medina • December 01, 2022

Q&A about Wiley's decision to open its abstracts

In this post Ludo Waltman and Bianca Kramer reflect on today’s announcement that Wiley is joining the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) and is going to make abstracts openly available through Crossref.

Ludo Waltman and Bianca Kramer • October 25, 2022

The growth of open peer review

The closed nature of the traditional journal peer review system is often criticized. Over the past two decades, significant efforts have been made to make peer review more open. Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck use data from Crossref to analyze the growth of open peer review.

Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck • July 06, 2022

The Initiative for Open Abstracts: Celebrating our first anniversary

In this blog post, Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, and David Shotton, co-founders of the Initiative for Open Abstracts, celebrate the first anniversary of the initiative.

Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer and David Shotton • October 06, 2021

Q&A about Elsevier's decision to open its citations

Last week Elsevier announced that it has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and that it is going to make the reference lists of articles openly available in Crossref. In this Q&A, Ludo Waltman shares his perspective on Elsevier’s decision to open its citations.

Ludo Waltman • December 22, 2020 • 1 comment

Comparing bibliographic data sources: Q&A

Last week CWTS researchers Martijn Visser, Nees Jan van Eck, and Ludo Waltman published the paper 'Large-scale comparison of bibliographic data sources: Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions, Crossref, and Microsoft Academic'. In this post, the authors answer ten questions about their work.

Martijn Visser, Nees Jan van Eck and Ludo Waltman • May 29, 2020

Recommendations to Crossref from a Science Studies Perspective

In a recent talk at a Crossref meeting, Ludo Waltman spoke about open citations and made three recommendations to Crossref.

Ludo Waltman • November 21, 2019

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