Centre for Science and Technology Studies

The development of Open Science (OS) is raising difficult questions about its implications for equity and inclusion. In this blog post, we report the insights gained from four sessions at the EASST/4S conference in July 2024, particularly in relation to OS monitoring.

On Halloween 2019, exactly five years ago to the day, this blog was launched as a modern replacement for the older CWTS institute blog. In this post we, the editors, would like to celebrate this fact and briefly analyse the journey.

Today two university rankings were released, one by CWTS and one by Times Higher Education. Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Eck, responsible for the CWTS Leiden Ranking, use this occasion to discuss the importance of transparency of rankings.

Last week, the EARLI SIG 24 Workshop 2024 took place from 25 to 27 September at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in Leiden, the Netherlands.

As of 1 September 2024, Thed van Leeuwen is appointed chair in "Monitoring Open Science Policies and Practices".

Data about COVID-19 were everywhere during the pandemic, but how will all this data continue to be managed and kept open so that it is usable in the future?