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The Front Matter Blog covers the intersection of science and technology since 2007.
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Working on the Rogue Scholar dashboard
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/working-on-the-rogue-scholar-dashboard/
Published: March 10, 2025 17:39
The Rogue Scholar dashboard is taking shape. The statistics page has been renamed to dashboard, still linked from the Rogue Scholar footer. More work has been done to expose key indicators of the science blog archive, focussing on OpenSearch Search Facets.…
Metrics and attribution: my thoughts for the panel at the ORCID-Dryad symposium on research attribution
Published: March 7, 2025 18:01
This Thursday I take part in a panel discussion at the Joint ORCID – Dryad Symposium on Research Attribution. Together with Trish Groves (BMJ) and Christine Borgman (UCLA) I will discuss several aspects of attribution. Trish will speak about ethics,…
Citations in Scholarly Markdown
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/citations-in-scholarly-markdown/
Published: March 7, 2025 17:58
In the comments on Monday’s blog post about the Markdown for Science workshop, Carl Boettiger had some good arguments against the proposal for how to do citations that we came up with during the workshop. As this is a complex topic, I decided to write this…
What Can Article-Level Metrics Do for You?
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/what-can-article-level-metrics-do-for-you/
Published: March 7, 2025 17:55
Article-level metrics (ALMs) provide a wide range of metrics about the uptake of an individual journal article by the scientific community after publication. They include citations, usage statistics, discussions in online comments and social media, social…
The Rogue Scholar migration to InvenioRDM is taking shape
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/the-rogue-scholar-migration-to-inveniordm-is-taking-shape/
Published: March 2, 2025 14:15
Last week I integrated the InvenioRDM API with the Rogue Scholar API, enabling the automated export of metadata to the InvenioRDM platform. As of today, 5,046 (28.8%) blog posts have been exported to InvenioRDM and can be explored via UI and API, The…
My contribution to Open Access Week 2024
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/my-contribution-to-open-access-week-2024/
Published: March 2, 2025 14:12
From October 21 to 27 is International Open Access Week 2024, and this blog post summarizes my contribution for 2024. Open Access Week 2024 will continue the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that…
Rogue Scholar Newsletter February 2025
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/rogue-scholar-newsletter-february-2025/
Published: February 28, 2025 10:54
This is the second issue of the new monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other…
Rogue Scholar statistics page relaunches
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/rogue-scholar-statistics-page-relaunches/
Published: February 25, 2025 17:44
The statistics page for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive was relaunched today, as Rogue Scholar reaches the major milestone of 25,000 archived science blog posts later this week, and the work on updating all blog posts to content type blog post and…
Adding Rogue Scholar blog posts to topic communities
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/rogue-scholar-topic-communities/
Published: February 20, 2025 12:26
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has started to automatically add all blog posts to the subject area community of the blog. Today I am adding another automatic community workflow: if a blog post uses tags or categories that exist as Rogue Scholar…
Rogue Scholar starts subject area communities
https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/rogue-scholar-subject-area-communities/
Published: February 17, 2025 17:57
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has started to automatically add all blog posts to the subject area community of the blog. Rogue Scholar uses the 48 OECD Fields of Science and Technology subject areas since September 2023 and blog authors pick a…