President's Dream Colloquium on Making Knowledge Public
How is public policy shaped by research? How is the public already actively involved in science?…
Highlights from the Brazilian Meeting on Bibliometrics and Scientometrics
This July, ScholCommLab’s Stefanie Haustein attended the sixth ever Brazilian Meeting on…
Preview: David Moscrop at TEDxYYC
Why do we make bad political decisions, and how do we make better ones? On Thursday, June 21,…
Stefanie Haustein on the Altmetric Blog
Starting this week, ScholCommLab co-director Stefanie Haustein is publishing a series of guest…
Preliminary Findings from the Review, Promotion, and Tenure Study
Support for the open access movement has grown in recent years, and today more than a quarter…
Key Takeaways from RightsCon Toronto 2018
From May 16 to 18, the ScholCommLab’s Research Associate Dr. Katherine Reilly and Carol Muñoz…
Highlights from the Congreso de Revistas
On May 2, ScholCommLab director Juan Alperin flew to Mexico City to attend the annual Congreso de…
Preliminary Findings from the Challenges of Capturing Engagement on Facebook for Altmetrics Study
With more than 2.2 billion active users—six times as many as Twitter—Facebook is by far the largest…
Unpacking the Social Side of Science Communication
Looking Ahead to SCW18’s “How I Scicomm” Panel What does it mean to be a science communicator in…
The number and proportion of freely available articles is growing; reaching 45% of the literature published in 2015
Earlier this year, the ImpactStory team of Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem launched Unpaywall, a…