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Centre for Science and Technology Studies

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) studies the dynamics of scientific research and its connections to technology, innovation and society. This means studying scientific and academic research from a scientific point of view.

Our research is organized into three chairs for full professors and has five working groups on key research themes.

We offer a range of courses on using bibliometric analyses for research management and research evaluation.

Our products and services are organized into three categories: Monitoring & Evaluation, Advanced Analytics, and Training & Education.

Rubicon grant Stefan de Jonghttps://goo.gl/fb/2DFeUN
Job opening: PhD Candidate Quantitative Science Studieshttps://goo.gl/fb/8Qt7Zi
Van Bergen Award: Going Dutch!https://goo.gl/fb/PT6MQL
Conference announcementhttps://goo.gl/fb/9dxEzD
PhD defense Cathelijn Waaijerhttps://goo.gl/fb/CyP8Un
Promotion Cathelijn Waaijerhttps://goo.gl/fb/7bLboC
Paul Wouters to judge $100 million MacArthur Foundation competitionhttp://goo.gl/fb/EqfqGF
Event for early career researchers: Recalibrating excellencehttp://goo.gl/fb/YsaJNz
VOSviewer: Latest improvements and future planshttp://goo.gl/fb/M3v8zA
Sarah de Rijcke member of Young Academy of Europehttp://goo.gl/fb/c3arAd
STS Infrastructure Award for WTMChttp://goo.gl/fb/2yzcB1
2016 John Ziman Award for Leiden Manifestohttp://goo.gl/fb/sJ7VVZ
CWTS analysis of Chinese science covered by Dutch newspaperhttp://goo.gl/fb/Pb1SqQ
Journal self-citations are increasingly biased toward impact factor yearshttp://goo.gl/fb/Np8L20
New board and deputy directors at CWTShttp://goo.gl/fb/i72T9Z

Q&A on Elsevier's CiteScore metric

Yesterday Elsevier launched the CiteScore journal metric. Ludo Waltman, responsible for the Advanced Bibliometric Methods working group at CWTS, answers some questions on the bibliometric aspects of this new metric.

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VOSviewer: Latest improvements and future plans

Today VOSviewer version 1.6.5 has been released. This new version of our software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks includes many improvements. In this blog post, we discuss some of the more important improvements. We also look ahead and discuss some anticipated future developments related to VOSviewer.

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Journal self-citations are increasingly biased toward impact factor years

Today the paper A large-scale analysis of impact factor biased journal self-citations has appeared in PLOS ONE.

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Rubicon grant Stefan de Jong

His two year Rubicon project is about the effect of university policies on societal engagement of academics in the social sciences and humanities.

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Job opening: PhD Candidate Quantitative Science Studies

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the Leiden Centre of Data Science (LCDS) of Leiden University are looking for a PhD Candidate Quantitative Science Studies (1.00 fte).

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Van Bergen Award: Going Dutch!

Going Dutch is a nominee who will be given the chance to further develop their plans in cooperation with the Van Bergen Fund.

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