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Alexey
@geoexp.bsky.social
https://eusp.org/en/people/aleksey-mikhaylovich-zheleznov
@alexey@sciences.social
I am looking for any research-level or PhD position outside Russia, mainly in research governance, geography, scientometrics, or project management
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🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
👉 Why do some papers cite others?
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Dear friends from #ScienceOfScience, @villumfonden.bsky.social has opened a call to study the outcomes of its Villum Experiment. Looks like a chance to advance our understanding of grants
Although I'm not based in Europe, I'm interested in connecting with a European PI who might be planning to apply
October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Bluesky just got banned in St. Petersburg today (may be after some months for other Russian regions):

Can't open without VPN here
October 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🌍 Our new paper "Reordering international ties: Russian universities’ institutional responses to geopolitical tensions" in the International Journal of Educational Research shows how Russian universities have reordered international ties after 2022. Full text: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ldMg38nsw...
authors.elsevier.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
«Authors in USA, China, and India had the highest chance that a reviewer is a SCR(Same country reviewer)—30.27%, 26.59%, and 13.69%, respectively. Low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMIC) authors not from India had only a 2.66% chance of SCRs»
Now published at PNAS ‼️ w/ @innovation.bsky.social

How does peer reviewer diversity affect fairness in peer review and the direction of published science? We find a "geographical representation bias" in 60 STEM journals published by @ioppublishing.bsky.social.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I'm thrilled to be taking this on--it is such a pleasure to be able to enable exciting new research and learn about new ways researchers would like to use our data! I'm looking forward to seeing what impact we can make on the world of innovation, science policy, and scientometrics more broadly. 😇
🎉 NEWS: We’re excited to relaunch the Scientometric Researcher Access to Data (SRAD) program!

SRAD supports the global scientometric research community by providing advanced access to @altmetric.com & @dimensions.ai data - and now Dimensions via BigQuery!

🔗 www.digital-science.com/blog/2025/07...
July 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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“Sustainability & #peace are two basic conditions for people to live better & happier” write Ryabinin et al. As UN SDG 14 focuses on #ocean #sustainability, but not explicitly on peace, they advocate for “a peaceful ocean” to be added as the 8th outcome of the UN Ocean Decade doi.org/10.1016/j.oc...
July 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I'm very proud to have worked on this paper and to see it published! Knowledge syntheses condense a wide range of works to a single publication, but we can also use them as starting points to identify a comprehensive body of research.

doi.org/10.17645/oas...
January 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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‘Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too’. Good, thoughtful editorial in @nature.com on #Metascience2025 & the new Alliance

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@helenpearson.bsky.social @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social @briannosek.bsky.social
Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too
Researchers studying research must avoid the temptation to get too stuck in the academic weeds.
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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🤩 UPD {sjrdata} to 2024 data #rstats
github.com/ikashnitsky/...
In this update I revert back to downloading all the data yearly. This came out of a productive discussion with @hansonmark.bsky.social (🙌), in which he pointed out that SCImago group sometimes changes the data backwards in their updates
GitHub - ikashnitsky/sjrdata: All scimagojr.com data wrapped for R
All scimagojr.com data wrapped for R. Contribute to ikashnitsky/sjrdata development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Just got back from an amazing week at #ISSI2025 in Yerevan, Armenia! I had the chance to present both a talk and a poster:
🕊️ Talk: Melting Science: Russian Climate Change Research in the Global Context
🧶 Poster: Stop, little pot! Are there too many scientometric studies?
Let’s keep in touch!
June 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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I had a lot of fun at #issi2025! So many fantastic young scientists trying to quantify how political, cultural, and personal forces shape science.
June 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Hope, I'll be presenting at the ISSI 2025 Conference in Yerevan: Melting Science: Russian Climate Change Research in the Global Context
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If you're attending #ISSI2025, I’d be thrilled to see you there! Don't forget about our poster too: Stop, little pot! Are there too many scientometric studies?
June 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Really glad that this is out! Fantastic collaboration with @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @innovation.bsky.social!

Key insight: Knowledge diffusion is nearly impossible to constrain—where there's a will, there's a way. From the atomic bomb to ChatGPT, determined minds always find a path.
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Where there’s a will there’s a way: ChatGPT is used more for science in countries where it is prohibited
Abstract. Regulating AI is a key societal challenge, but effective methods remain unclear. This study evaluates geographic restrictions on AI services, focusing on ChatGPT, which OpenAI blocks in seve...
direct.mit.edu
April 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE!
We explore the geographical & disciplinary coverage of #OpenAccess journals across #OpenAlex, #Scopus & #WoS.

📊 Key takeaway: OpenAlex offers broader OA coverage — but global imbalances persist.

👉 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

#OpenAccess
Geographical and disciplinary coverage of open access journals: OpenAlex, Scopus, and WoS
This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the Web of Science (WoS). We used the Directory of Open Access Scholarly R...
journals.plos.org
April 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This #StarterPack is for world leaders heading to NY for the first #BBNJPrepCom.

Suit? ✅ Pen? ✅ Octavia? ✅ Now bring the political will to ratify the #HighSeasTreaty before #UNOC3

Time to take the #BBNJ Treaty out of the box.

#RaceForRatification @highseasalliance.bsky.social

lnkd.in/eFaQQz4i
April 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Update via #SCIMaP now broken down by house districts

Our interdisciplinary team has expanded efforts to communicate the economic impacts of White House proposed cuts to health research.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
April 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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It started as a piece about geographic names changes, but it also reflects about metadata standards, what these mean for research, and how to overcome discrepancies. Data provision and accessability is more acute than ever
📣 NEW on the Research Musings Substack: What impact does "Gulf of America" have on research?

@jwastl.bsky.social writes that when it comes to metadata, we need to bridge the gap (...or gulf?) between different names of geographical areas.

🔗 Read now: researchmusings.substack.com/p/the-gulf-o...
March 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As mapped by @barisari.bsky.social, Geneva and Nairobi are the most frequent hosts of peace talk venues, followed by Moscow, Paris, New York, and New Delhi. His paper doi.org/10.1177/0022... provides detailed information on negotiations
February 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Great choice!
“The fact that she keeps up the work and still pushes on paper mills in Russia is a testament to who she is.”

Congratulations to our partner @abalkina.bsky.social on this well-deserved honor from Nature.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This fearless science sleuth risked her career to expose publication fraud
Anna Abalkina is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2024.
www.nature.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:16 PM
For now it's too simple to divide the world into two sides
The Brandt Line was drawn in 1980 to divide the world into a richer "Global North" and a poorer "Global South."

Things have changed. A reddit mapmaker created a messier version that separates countries with Human Development Index scores above and below 0.8.
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
#polisky 🧪
December 8, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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New #OpenAccess paper in Area:

'(Pragmatist) geographies of rankings' by Gerhard Rainer

This paper explores the growing importance of rankings as a means of valuation, using the wine industry as a case in point.

doi.org/10.1111/area...
December 4, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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The brand new `legendry` package by @teunbrand.bsky.social takes ggplots2 guides to the next level 🤩

teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl...
November 22, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Remember this quote from a view days ago about reviewer requesting to add irrelevant citaions? My colleague @helenedraux.bsky.social looked a little bit behind the scenes and performed some quick analysis for her research data bites at researchmusings.substack.com/p/a-case-of-...
November 21, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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English speakers in academia
November 17, 2024 at 10:19 AM