To launch our new section ‘AI in Research’ Sascha Schönig spoke to Theresa Züger, head of the Public Interest AI research group, about the influence of AI on her personal day-to-day work in research, as well as on the science system as a whole. She gave some exciting insights about the risks and opportunities AI bears for research work and talked about tools her team is developing at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.| Elephant in the Lab
OurResearch is proud to announce a $7.5M grant from Arcadia, to establish a sustainable and completely open index of the world’s research ecosystem.| OurResearch blog
The Financial Times recently published an article detailing Sorbonne University’s “radical decision” to switch to OpenAlex for its publication database and bibliometric analytics. The article (behind a paywall, unfortunately 😞) came out a little while ago, but we wanted to highlight it here in case you missed it. The news comes in the context of […] The post Coverage in the Financial Times of OpenAlex and the Sorbonne appeared first on OurResearch blog.| OurResearch blog
We at OpenAlex are thrilled at Sorbonne University’s recent announcement that they will be switching to OpenAlex for their publication database and bibliometric analytics, abandoning the use of proprietary products! The Sorbonne, a leading French university, made their announcement in a recent post (click here for the English version; click here for the French version). […] The post Sorbonne University announces switch to OpenAlex appeared first on OurResearch blog.| OurResearch blog
The New England Journal of Medicine uses a non-standard format when presenting authors and their institutional affiliations, which is a problem when we want to keep track of these links in our data. We developed a custom algorithm to solve this problem, preserving more than a hundred thousand author-institution links. Linking works, authors, and institutions […] The post Assigning Institutions — New England Journal of Medicine Case Study appeared first on OurResearch blog.| OurResearch blog
This short analysis focuses on female scientists as a subgroup of a large survey sample and how their assessment of public engagement differs from that of their male counterparts.| Elephant in the Lab