Science of science is the journey of a small community of scholars to analyze and understand human knowledge. Why are we curious and how have reason and inquiry shaped the fate of humanity? How does scientific knowledge shape policy, innovation and our day-today lives? Why and how do scientists collaboarate across cultures and borders? Science of science offers a variety of questions and pathways to tackle them.

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Alexander Schniedermann Researcher in the science of science. Open Science enthusiast. DZHW employee and doctoral student at CWTS Leiden

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PhD Project: Reporting guidelines in Biomedicine

PhD Project: Reporting guidelines in Biomedicine In 2019 when I joined the DZHW to investigate the roles and functions of review articles in science, I quickly stumbled over the phenomenon called “reporting guidelines” that has become very prominent in the biomedical sciences. In short, reporting guidelines are standards that provide rules and checklists for writing scientific publications. The reason for these guidelines to exist was a growing unease with how scientists report their findings since the late 1980s.
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Ressources for the science of science

Although everything is published and linked everywhere these days, there are some interesting side shows in dicussing science on science related things. Here are some blogs and podcasts I enjoy from time to time. Living list, of course (13.01.2024) Blogs and reads Retraction Watch About cases of fraud, plagiarism and retractions in general LeidenMadtrics about research evaluation and the bibliometric community The Bibliomagican with ideas for better research evaluation the rather well-known dataColada about data practices in general (and some insightful thoughts on meta-analyses) Aaron Tay’s musings about librarianship Front Matter Company/blog by Martin Fenner that also hosts the The Rogue Scholar blog which is a science-blog aggregator.
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Map of Documents

A co-occurrence map I used a so-called “map of science” to illustrate various parts of this page. It is based on real metadata about biomedical publications! As every other scientific discipline, biomedical researchers use different publication types to write down and communicate their findings. For example, you can publish your results as a book, a journal article or in a newspaper. These “publication types” are assigned to each study by the PubMed database which includes over 30 million publications.
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