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About Leiden Madtrics is the official blog of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. The Leiden Madtrics Blog is a hub for people interested in trends and developments in research, and the intersection of science and society.
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Strengthening research cultures
How can we foster a collaborative, fair, and healthy research culture that enables researchers and research communities to do their best work? This question lies at the heart of the new strategy of the CWTS Focal Area Culture & Evaluation for 2026-2028.Re
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Who absorbs uncertainty? Publishing infrastructures and the organisation of research culture
Focusing on journal publishing as one key dimension of research culture, this blogpost compares Spain and Lithuania to show how infrastructures shape whether uncertainty in publication and recognition is distributed across multiple options or concentrated
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The case for citation count ranges
Citation counts have a prominent role in bibliometrics, but do they really represent all citations of a document? Paul Donner shows the different ways in which citation counts can vary and proposes a method for presenting citation counts with more nuance:
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Scholarly communication as a collective responsibility
CWTS has developed a Scholarly Communication Policy that treats publishing as a collective responsibility rather than an individual choice. In this blog post, we introduce the policy, reflect on its co-creation, and invite other institutions to consider a
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In memoriam Caroline S. Wagner
Caroline S. Wagner (1955-2026) was a highly regarded scholar in the field of science and technology policy. Paul Wouters reflects on her impressive contributions to research on science policy, the globalization of research, international collaboration, an
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