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1. Conference Paper2026Open Access

   Sharing the Load: Open Research Information Resources for the STI Community in the Cloud(opens in a new tab)

   

   Neylon, Cameron; Kramer, Bianca; Mazoni, Alysson; Costas, Rodrigo; Jahn, Najko; van Eck, Nees Jan

   The potential benefits of open research information (ORI) for STI are only just beginning to be realised. For responsible STI indicators, we want to use and recombine ORI resources on a large scale, including among others OpenAlex, OpenAIRE, rankings and national research databases. This special session showcases the Open Research Information Online Databases (ORION-DBs) collective, which makes ORI resources publicly available in the cloud, initially focusing on Google BigQuery. The combined collections comprise 14TB of size. The special session begins with short presentations from the participating MultiObs, Sesame Open Science, SUB Göttingen and CWTS groups, each introducing their open data offerings with an emphasis on reusability for the STI community. A brief hands-on demonstration will illustrate how the different datasets can be combined, showcasing the potential of this approach. Participants will then be invited to pitch research ideas using the presented resources and to discuss the potential of ORION-DBs.

   DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22656704Cloud computingOpen research
2. Conference Paper2026Open Access

   Gender representation of Latin American authors across bibliographic data sources: OpenAlex, Leiden Ranking Core Collection Open Edition, Scopus and SciELO(opens in a new tab)

   

   Choji, Thamyres Tetsue; Mazoni, Alysson; Moral-Muñoz, José A.; Costas, Rodrigo; Cobo, Manuel J.

   Nowadays bibliographic data sources are available, and their coverage is shaped by their scope and indexing criteria. Their comparison can reveal what they underrepresent or exclude, particularly in regions such as Latin America, which presents specific characteristics in knowledge production. This study compares four data sources: OpenAlex, Leiden Ranking Core Collection Open Edition, Scopus, and SciELO. We analyze document coverage and author visibility by gender, career length, and language of publication. OpenAlex was used as the baseline, and comparisons were made using DOI and persistent author identifiers. Results show that, after OpenAlex, Scopus presents the largest coverage of documents (47.7%) and authors (52.1%), but with larger gender differences than SciELO. SciELO shows higher representation of women, particularly among exclusive authors, career lengths, and more authors publishing in Spanish (30.4%) and Portuguese (46%). These findings suggest that data sources may shape gender representation and multilingual publication practices in Latin America.

   DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22656952SciELOScopusLatin AmericansPortuguese
3. Conference Paper2026Open Access

   The effect of open access on numbers of downloads and their geographic diversity(opens in a new tab)

   

   van Bellen, Simon; Larivière, Vincent

   Despite their usefulness in analyzing the uses of research papers within and beyond academia, the availability of download data remains scarce. Using data from the Érudit journal platform, this paper analyzes the effect of open access availability on numbers of downloads and their geographic diversity. Results show that OA positively affects the numbers of downloads by a factor of 3.0 during the embargo period, and that downloads may maintain this advantage during the following years. Eighty percent of downloads originated from non-subscribing visitors, with the end of the embargo period being strongly associated with an expansion of their geographic diversity. On the whole, our results show that journals can substantially broaden international readership by adopting immediate OA, and that metadata quality is at least as influential as OA for downloads.

   DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22656606DownloadMetadataGeographic variationAudience measurementLocation