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Preprint comments: A place for praise, critique, and everything in between

Once all but unknown to anyone but economics or high energy physics researchers, preprints are…


New study: Tracking opioid science in the news

As governments across the world grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, several other…


ScholCommLab co-director receives funding to analyze patterns of how research data is cited and reused 

Stefanie Haustein wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research grant of $200K US Have you ever wondered…


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Four recommendations for improving preprint metadata

By Mario Malički and Juan Pablo Alperin This blog post is inspired by our four part series…


Analyzing preprints: The challenges of working with metadata from arXiv’s Quantitative Biology section

By Mario Malički, Maria Janina Sarol, and Juan Pablo Alperin This blog post is the last of a four…


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Analyzing Preprints: The challenges of working with metadata from bioRxiv

By Mario Malički, Maria Janina Sarol, and Juan Pablo Alperin This blog post is the third in a four…


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Analyzing preprints: The challenges of working with OSF metadata

By Mario Malički, Maria Janina Sarol, and Juan Pablo Alperin This blog post is the second in a four…


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Altmetrics researchers: Time to take another look at Facebook, you’ve been missing something

Photo credit: ViewApart / iStock “I hope that the kind of altmetrics research that has been going…


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Analyzing preprints: The challenges of working with SHARE metadata

By Mario Malički, Maria Janina Sarol, and Juan Pablo Alperin As can be seen from a series of recent…


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Comment, reply, repeat: Engaging students with social annotation

By Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin, Esteban Morales, and Remi Kalir Picture the last time…