‘Collegiality’ influences researchers’ promotion prospects, Nature News, April 25, 2022
The allure of the journal impact factor holds firm, despite its flaws, Nature Index, August 29, 2019
Survey findings: Publish or perish? Faculty publishing decisions and the review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process,LJ’s infoDOCKET, July 30, 2019 [Reblog]
Do academics overestimate the importance of journal prestige?,Daily Nous, July 30, 2019
Academics think, ‘others value journal prestige and metrics, not me’, Times Higher Education, July 26, 2019
For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership?, Science, July 25, 2019
Academic review promotion and tenure documents promote a view of open access that is at odds with the wider academic community, LSE Impact Blog, July 17, 2019
The ‘impact’ of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process, LSE Impact Blog, April 26, 2019 [Reblog]
The ‘impact’ of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process, PeerJ Blog, April 17, 2019
‘Undue reliance’ on journal impact factor in academic evaluation,Times Higher Education, April 16, 2019
Impact factors are still widely used in academic evaluations, Nature News, April 11, 2019
As scholars are driven to less prestigious journals, new measures of quality emerge, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 18, 2019
Beyond Web of Science and Scopus there is already an open bibliodiverse world of research – We ignore it at our peril, LSE Impact Blog, February 7, 2023
“The pandemic showed that open access is the way forward in science communication,”Agencia SINC, October 29, 2022 [Spanish]
Building trust in peer review: A Q&A with Dr Mario Malički, BMC On Medicine Blog, September 18, 2020
Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the Internet, study found, CNN, September 15, 2020
Nearly 200 journals suddenly went missing on the internet, about 900 more at-risk, Tech Times, September 10, 2020
And poof! They are gone, Genome Web, September 10, 2020
More than 100 scientific journals have disappeared from the Internet, Nature News, September 10, 2020
Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps, The Register, September 10, 2020
Research: Nearly 200 scientific journals have disappeared from the Internet, and 900 may soon disappear [Finnish], Tekniikan Maailma, September 9, 2020
Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet, and no one preserved them, Science, September 8, 2020
‘Bronze’ open access supersedes green and gold, Nature Index, March 12, 2018
Des chercheurs se mobilisent pour un accès gratuit aux publications,Le Monde, November 6, 2017
Study suggests publisher public access outpacing open access; Gold OA decreases citation performance,The Scholarly Kitchen, October 4, 2017
Research results are increasingly available for free, Al-Fanar Media, September 29, 2017
Soon, nobody will read academic journals illegally, because the studies worth reading will be free, Quartz, August 9, 2017
Two studies suggest trouble ahead for paywall journals (Update),Phys.org, August 8, 2017
Half of papers searched for online are free to read,Nature, August 7, 2017
Open Access On the Rise: Study, The Scientist, August 7, 2017
The State of Open Access: Some New Data,Open and Shut, Thursday, August 03, 2017
Trend Watch: The State of Open Access,Nature, August 2, 2017
Open Education
With Online Social Annotation, Students Read Together, Inside Higher Ed, October 12, 2022
Opinion: Why we need a socially responsible approach to ‘social reading’, The Hechinger Report, April 11, 2022
Comment, reply, repeat: Engaging students with social annotation, GC Digital Initiatives, September 3, 2019 [Reblog]
Altmetrics and Societal Impact
Catchy, clear, concise: three-part phrases boost research paper citations, Nature News, March 18, 2025
Twitter changed science—what happens now it’s in turmoil?, Nature News Feature, December 20, 2022
You must be joking: funny paper titles might lead to more citations, Nature News, April 6, 2022
Twitter transformed science communication during the pandemic. Will it last?, Science Magazine, March 24, 2022
Research: “Emojis in Scholarly Communication: 🔥 or 💩?”, LJ’s infoDOCKET, August 22, 2019 [Reblog]
Web presence and social media metrics from articles shared on Twitter – Interview with Stefanie Haustein, SciELO – in Perspective, June 11, 2019 (Portuguese, Spanish, and English)
Ciência Aberta e Altmetria na América Latina #LATMETRICS [Open Science and Altmetrics in Latin America #LATMETRICS],Informação Tecnologia & Cultura Digital, December 18, 2018 (Portuguese)
Research Metrics
Online platform allows researchers to claim credit for grant peer review, Chemical & Engineering News, January 30, 2020
Data Citations and Reuse
The diversity of data citation and reuse practices, DATACC Watch Bulletin, May 2, 2023 (French)
New preprint explores tracing data reuse and citations (interview with Kathleen Gregory), LJ’s infoDOCKET, April 20, 2023 [Reblog]
