Eigenfactor Project

Revealing the structure of scientific knowledge with @CT_Bergstrom and @JevinWest at the University of Washington.

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

@petersuber This would be an excellent research project.

[Martin Rosvall @m_rosvall]

Trouble running Infomap in Windows? We now provide pre-compiled Infomap binaries for Windows. Download and run Infomap in the PowerShell. Feature request from many R users. Work by @antoneri and @daniel_edler. https://t.co/zyqdSDYJzc

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

I love the title of @SemanticScholar's new feature. Cool feature too.

https://t.co/aMXz37GSZR

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

A wholly inadequate response to very good questions from @ScholarlyChickn

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

"The authors of a much–critiqued study of the beneficial effects of tweeting on citation and altmetrics speak, finally."
https://t.co/ccx88sXEp9

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

@mbeisen @pastramimachine And to be fair, Frontiers has to keep reviewing again and again until someone screws up and accepts your paper.

[Jeroen Bosman aka @[email protected] @jeroenbosman]

Huge differences in search results on "COVID 19"|"SARS CoV 2" in search engines:
@MSFTAcademic 401
Google Scholar: 739
@webofscience 1646
@Scopus 4889
@NCBI PubMed 8005
@TheLensOrg The Lens: 10450
@DSDimensions 10595
@CrossrefOrg 28246
Of course there is more to that... 1/15

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

This is the best thing ever

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

The joy of Altmetrics

https://t.co/c8k0K7fCNp

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

Who presents and where? An analysis of research seminars in US economics departments

Asier Minondo

https://t.co/I8NYnwn7GJ

[Richard Sever @cshperspectives]

Best predatory journal spam invite ever 🤣

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship, h-index and journal impact factors are shaping the future of academia.

h/t @LeeDugatkin

https://t.co/41Y40Ezg9V

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

"All the best papers"

https://t.co/16BMNrCzve (paywall)

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

Derek de Solla Price's family has developed a website with links to much of his work, including full texts of his books.

https://t.co/KQPoAcw5n0

h/t @joseph_fridman

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

Huge study documents gender gap in chemistry publishing https://t.co/CXZcEF2d4h

[Molly M. King @mollymking]

Important implications for the importance of blinded review, even in an age when we are increasingly moving toward open science. @NatureNews https://t.co/dQIIFnPHs7

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

We often assume that in an academic priority race, the first to publish gets all the credit.

Fascinating empirical research on the consequences of getting scooped suggests otherwise.

[Ryan Hill @RyanReedHill]

Hey academics on Twitter:

Have you ever been scooped?
Do you worry about getting scooped?

My job market paper estimates the consequences of getting scooped in science using cool data from structural biology.
Let’s do a thread!

[Eigenfactor Project @eigenfactor]

.@WDScholia seems like a project worth following. Very cool stuff.

[Calling Bullshit @callin_bull]

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Italian academia discovers Goodhart's law the hard way.

https://t.co/C578OINYv5

[Beth Popp Berman (epopppp@bsky) @epopppp]

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