TOBI:
Towards Open Bibliometric Indicators

TOBI is a project lead by the ETH Library and co-funded by swissuniversities. It aims to evaluate the quality of open bibliometric data sources regarding research affiliated with Swiss Higher Education Institutions. The project has started in Q1 2023 and will wrap up in Q4 2024.

News

Blogpost: Swiss Higher Education Institutions in Commercial Bibliometric Databases

10.04.2024
Our new blogpost covers the main findings and implications of a study of Swiss higher education institutions' findability in commercial bibliometric databases. Knowing how Switzerland is represented in these established, commercial databases will later allow a point of comparison for OpenAlex and OpenAIRE within the TOBI project. The blogpost underscores the relevance of organisational identifiers and language disambiguation for the findability and visibility of Swiss HEIs in bibliometric databases. It also showcases the widely varying publication counts across commercial bibliometric databases.
Supplementary files:

  • Full list of Swiss higher education institutions found in commercial database webapps: .pdf file, .csv file
  • List of institutions included for “ETH Zurich” in Dimensions, Scopus, WoS: .pdf file
  • List of search queries for Swiss higher education institutions in commercial database webapps (including child- and related-institutions): .csv file, .xlsx file

Upcoming: TOBI at Open Repositories Conference 2024

18.03.2024
We are glad to announce that our presentation proposal for Open Repositories Conference 2024 in Gothenburg has been accepted. We are looking forward to the discussions and exchanges.

Update: OpenAIRE is now available in the TOBI Open Metadata Tracker

11.03.2024
The TOBI Open Metadata Tracker has been updated. You can now track counts from OpenAIRE. The new OpenCitations Index has also been integrated into the app. Click here to compare counts in Crossref, OpenAIRE, OpenAlex, OpenCitations and Semantic Scholar.

Third Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) Workshop

23.02.2024
The third workshop of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) on 8 February 2024 at EPFL was a success. The workshop opened with three lightning talks on TOBI, on the Swiss Open Access Monitor (NOAM) and on the French Open Science Monitor, and was followed by stimulating discussions on open data and responsible research assessment. Presentations related to SYoS are available on the Zenodo page of the project. We are thankful to the workshop participants for their rich input, as well as to the organizing team of the event at EPFL.

Upcoming: Third Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) Workshop

16.01.2024
The third workshop of the Swiss Year of Scientometrics (SYoS) will take place on 8 February 2024 at EPFL in Lausanne. The workshop will start with lightning talks on open data projects. Participants will then discuss questions related to data pipelines, sustainability, and infrastructure. The output of the workshop will be used as a basis for a TOBI report.

TOBI at Bibliosuisse 2023

12.11.2023
On 3 November 2023, we had the pleasure to hold a multilingual ignite talks session in English, German and French about TOBI and SYoS at Bibliosuisse 2023. Our session was entitled "Responding to the need for responsible and open bibliometrics in Switzerland: Insights from two projects at the ETH Library". Our thanks go to the organizers of the conference, and especially to the moderator of our session, Franziska Baetcke. Bibliosuisse 2023 provided great opportunities for exchange with many stakeholders.

TOBI at Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2023

30.10.2023
The slides of our talk on TOBI at the Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2023 in Bologna are now available. Further presentations from these intensive days are also available on the Zenodo page of the event. We are thankful to the participants for the insightful discussions and to the organizers for making this great opportunity to exchange possible!

First report ready for community feedback

05.08.2023
Preliminary version of the first report has been published! Access it here. Let us know if you have feedback!

Open Metadata Tracker

23.07.2023
Check out our new app, Open Metadata Tracker.

Upcoming: TOBI at Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2023

27.06.2023
We are delighted to share that our talk proposal has been accepted to be presented at the Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata in Bologna! We are looking forward to the interesting discussions with the open scholarly metadata community.

TOBI at Open Data Forum 2023

23.06.2023
On 16. June 2023, Teresa has presented the project on the Open Data Forum 2023, organized by the association OpenData.ch in Zurich. She gave a Lightning Talk titled “Open Scholarly Metadata”, which was received with a lot of interest from the open data community. We thank all the interested participants for many lively discussions and are grateful to the organizers for this opportunity!

Upcoming: TOBI at Bibliosuisse 2023

01.06.2023
TOBI as well as its sister project SYOS were accepted for presentation at the upcoming Bibliosuisse, which will take place in Zurich, 2-3. November 2023.