Alexander Schniedermann
@aschniedermann.bsky.social
STS and scientometrics about reporting standards in biomedical research & systematic reviews
Some products reveal more about society than any sociologist ever could!
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Some products reveal more about society than any sociologist ever could!
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I just reviewed the article 'Implicit reporting standards in bibliometric research: what can reviewers' comments tell us about reporting completeness?' by @dimitystephen.bsky.social and colleagues. I like the article a lot!
Article: arxiv.org/abs/2508.162...
Review: prereview.org/reviews/1739...
Article: arxiv.org/abs/2508.162...
Review: prereview.org/reviews/1739...
October 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I just reviewed the article 'Implicit reporting standards in bibliometric research: what can reviewers' comments tell us about reporting completeness?' by @dimitystephen.bsky.social and colleagues. I like the article a lot!
Article: arxiv.org/abs/2508.162...
Review: prereview.org/reviews/1739...
Article: arxiv.org/abs/2508.162...
Review: prereview.org/reviews/1739...
Reposted by Alexander Schniedermann
Just finished my @metaror.bsky.social journey – two rounds of #OpenPeerReview, valuable feedback, a stronger paper, and finally a journal submission. Open review takes time, but it’s worth every week for the transparency and trust it brings. doi.org/10.70744/Met... #OpenScience #Publishing
APC waivers and Ukraine’s publishing output in Gold OA journals: Evidence from five commercial publishers
doi.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Just finished my @metaror.bsky.social journey – two rounds of #OpenPeerReview, valuable feedback, a stronger paper, and finally a journal submission. Open review takes time, but it’s worth every week for the transparency and trust it brings. doi.org/10.70744/Met... #OpenScience #Publishing
I just published my first paper on MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review). The #PublishReviewCurate model brings reviewing and editorial decision making into the open.
To me, it can become a real game changer in #ScholarlyCommunication. I got great reviews and look forward to revise my manuscript!
To me, it can become a real game changer in #ScholarlyCommunication. I got great reviews and look forward to revise my manuscript!
🆕 Our latest study asks how authors incorporate the PRISMA guideline into workflows when conducting reviews.
Both reviewers highlighted the study's importance yet also requested more information and details from the author.
👇 Read the full editorial assessment, reviews and paper on MetaROR
Both reviewers highlighted the study's importance yet also requested more information and details from the author.
👇 Read the full editorial assessment, reviews and paper on MetaROR
From Form to Formation. Biomedical Reporting Standards in Practice
metaror.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I just published my first paper on MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review). The #PublishReviewCurate model brings reviewing and editorial decision making into the open.
To me, it can become a real game changer in #ScholarlyCommunication. I got great reviews and look forward to revise my manuscript!
To me, it can become a real game changer in #ScholarlyCommunication. I got great reviews and look forward to revise my manuscript!
Let's develop a theory about how methodological developments in research are motivated by the evergrowing urge to not leave the lab and not having social interactions.
Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
THREAD 🧵
The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
arxiv.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Let's develop a theory about how methodological developments in research are motivated by the evergrowing urge to not leave the lab and not having social interactions.
Haha, this Springer certificate for #PeerReview is cute. However, I haven't found out where to put my IBAN... 🧐
September 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Haha, this Springer certificate for #PeerReview is cute. However, I haven't found out where to put my IBAN... 🧐
September 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I am in the final phase of editing my dissertation and wonder if I should add
- [ ] decrease amount of references to Ioannidis' papers
to the editing todo list. And yes, citation is politics!
- [ ] decrease amount of references to Ioannidis' papers
to the editing todo list. And yes, citation is politics!
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I am in the final phase of editing my dissertation and wonder if I should add
- [ ] decrease amount of references to Ioannidis' papers
to the editing todo list. And yes, citation is politics!
- [ ] decrease amount of references to Ioannidis' papers
to the editing todo list. And yes, citation is politics!
#STS and #SociologyOfScience have shown how contextually nuanced and discursive forms of argumentation are not integral to the sciences/medicine. At the same time we criticize the strong and reductive language found in #Metascience and #ScienceReform. I think we should be less surprised!
August 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
#STS and #SociologyOfScience have shown how contextually nuanced and discursive forms of argumentation are not integral to the sciences/medicine. At the same time we criticize the strong and reductive language found in #Metascience and #ScienceReform. I think we should be less surprised!
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Did you know Bluesky's founder has an #STS degree? In a new article, Erin Burkett and I explain why, despite current threats to humanities and social science, "STEM-in-Society programs" like STS are more important than ever. And we guide funders and university leaders how to better support them.
STEM-in-Society Programs Deserve Institutional Support
STEM-in-society programs have proven their utility and have never been more needed—but they are in jeopardy nationwide.
issues.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Did you know Bluesky's founder has an #STS degree? In a new article, Erin Burkett and I explain why, despite current threats to humanities and social science, "STEM-in-Society programs" like STS are more important than ever. And we guide funders and university leaders how to better support them.
📣 Starting today: Science Maps. Bibliometrics between understanding and visualization
We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.
We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.
August 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
📣 Starting today: Science Maps. Bibliometrics between understanding and visualization
We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.
We'll have traditional, current, and critical perspectives on one of the most iconic forms of #DataViz data in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkAnalysis.
#ChatGPT said some of my P-values are "astronomically small" and I am confused if this is just tone or if it refers to whatever amount of sigmas they use as threshold in astronomy
August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#ChatGPT said some of my P-values are "astronomically small" and I am confused if this is just tone or if it refers to whatever amount of sigmas they use as threshold in astronomy
Sometimes I have the impression I am the only one in #bibliometrics who cares about "measurement error", especially when apply traditional statistics. But I get that the assumption is often: big data averages out any bias. It tells much about the epistemology of #DataScience and #BigData
August 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Sometimes I have the impression I am the only one in #bibliometrics who cares about "measurement error", especially when apply traditional statistics. But I get that the assumption is often: big data averages out any bias. It tells much about the epistemology of #DataScience and #BigData
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I love this post about science and metascience. A lot of quotables but I’ll lead with this:
“Those seeking a scientific method – one that can be written down and followed mechanically […] – betray a kind of childish impatience with a process they clearly don’t understand.”
“Those seeking a scientific method – one that can be written down and followed mechanically […] – betray a kind of childish impatience with a process they clearly don’t understand.”
This is sort of part two to the far more enjoyable (to write and, hopefully, to read) essay "how to science a science with science". You might want to read that first.
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/h...
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How to science a science with science
The purest description of the scientific method I ever saw was in a novel by Kurt Vonnegut. A workman discovers that if he puts a bucket full of nuts and bolts on one of the many supporting struts …
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I love this post about science and metascience. A lot of quotables but I’ll lead with this:
“Those seeking a scientific method – one that can be written down and followed mechanically […] – betray a kind of childish impatience with a process they clearly don’t understand.”
“Those seeking a scientific method – one that can be written down and followed mechanically […] – betray a kind of childish impatience with a process they clearly don’t understand.”
„Ah — that explains it completely“
I guess I mansplained #ChatGPT and #CodeCompanion. I hope mansplAIning is not yet a thing.
I guess I mansplained #ChatGPT and #CodeCompanion. I hope mansplAIning is not yet a thing.
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
„Ah — that explains it completely“
I guess I mansplained #ChatGPT and #CodeCompanion. I hope mansplAIning is not yet a thing.
I guess I mansplained #ChatGPT and #CodeCompanion. I hope mansplAIning is not yet a thing.
Two thoughts after reading through several studies on metrics-based #ResearchEvaluation and evaluative #Bibliometrics
(thread, 1/5)
(thread, 1/5)
August 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Two thoughts after reading through several studies on metrics-based #ResearchEvaluation and evaluative #Bibliometrics
(thread, 1/5)
(thread, 1/5)
I don't get why people dislike Richard Whitley's
"The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences"
Yes, it is pure theory and yes it is often empirically thin. But do people really expect him to validate all of this on his own? Is that how theory books are supposed to work?
"The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences"
Yes, it is pure theory and yes it is often empirically thin. But do people really expect him to validate all of this on his own? Is that how theory books are supposed to work?
August 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I don't get why people dislike Richard Whitley's
"The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences"
Yes, it is pure theory and yes it is often empirically thin. But do people really expect him to validate all of this on his own? Is that how theory books are supposed to work?
"The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences"
Yes, it is pure theory and yes it is often empirically thin. But do people really expect him to validate all of this on his own? Is that how theory books are supposed to work?
If you are currently writing your opinion paper on how performance-based funding and research evaluation ruined modern academia: Don't forget (like so many) that not only evaluation systems evaluate. Individuals judge and evaluate all the time, too!
August 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you are currently writing your opinion paper on how performance-based funding and research evaluation ruined modern academia: Don't forget (like so many) that not only evaluation systems evaluate. Individuals judge and evaluate all the time, too!
People discuss publication ethics and research culture in #Metascience. Meanwhile I have to adjust my #bibliometric analysis for authors who have co-authored 17 #SystematicReviews (six times first author!) in a single year.
I love #bibliometrics.
Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.
You can literally see how data demystifies academia!
Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.
You can literally see how data demystifies academia!
July 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
People discuss publication ethics and research culture in #Metascience. Meanwhile I have to adjust my #bibliometric analysis for authors who have co-authored 17 #SystematicReviews (six times first author!) in a single year.
Though, it makes data analysis more complicated as I have to hunt down these issues and consider them in my code...
I love #bibliometrics.
Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.
You can literally see how data demystifies academia!
Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.
You can literally see how data demystifies academia!
July 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Though, it makes data analysis more complicated as I have to hunt down these issues and consider them in my code...
I love #bibliometrics.
Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.
You can literally see how data demystifies academia!
Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.
You can literally see how data demystifies academia!
July 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I love #bibliometrics.
Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.
You can literally see how data demystifies academia!
Seeing papers by Ivy league professors in Ivy league journals with thousands of citations but misspelled names, double authorships, paper-self-citations etc. brings you back down to earth.
You can literally see how data demystifies academia!
I do not get why there are so many critical accounts of metrics-based funding in science while more and more universities introduce JIF-based assessments in their PhD regulations.
July 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I do not get why there are so many critical accounts of metrics-based funding in science while more and more universities introduce JIF-based assessments in their PhD regulations.
I am on my way back from #ISAForum25. Over 4000 sociologists! I am very impressed by the many in-depth discussions during the sessions. There was methods and theory talk on a very high level. I certainly miss that in #STS. I hope I can join ISA again next time.
July 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I am on my way back from #ISAForum25. Over 4000 sociologists! I am very impressed by the many in-depth discussions during the sessions. There was methods and theory talk on a very high level. I certainly miss that in #STS. I hope I can join ISA again next time.
I hope the enlighted seniors then don’t forget to kick out such frauds of cabalist inauguration ceremonies (academic recruitment processes)
If your name is on a paper you didn't contribute directly to, or even carefully read one time, you are a dishonest fraud, end of. If you publish as part of a cabal that puts everyone's name on every paper regardless of direct input, you are all dishonest frauds.
July 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I hope the enlighted seniors then don’t forget to kick out such frauds of cabalist inauguration ceremonies (academic recruitment processes)
Germany is aching under high temperatures. I guess I‘ll have just four rather than five cups of coffee today. Just to be sure.
July 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Germany is aching under high temperatures. I guess I‘ll have just four rather than five cups of coffee today. Just to be sure.