Publications

Global scholarly information systems provide poor coverage for social science and humanities research taking place outside of the anglophone world and in languages other than English. Paul Donner, Stephan Stahschmidt, Serhii Nazarovets, Igor Cojocaru, Irina Cojocaru, Marina Razmadze and Shushanik Sargsyan highlight a range of national initiatives taking place aimed at improving scholarly data for local and national research and argue for the value of their greater integration.

The citations to open access preprint and working paper versions of papers that are also formally published in journals are not regularly counted in global multidisciplinary proprietary citation index databases, nor are they considered in most bibliometric studies. They are, however, integrated into paper citation counts in other citation databases. It can be argued that open access preprint citations reflect a relevant part of scientific impact of a work as proxied by citation counts, particularly in scientific disciplines that make extensive use of preprints/working papers for rapid open communication. Here we present a large-scale study of these usually uncounted open access preprint citations for the Web of Science database [...]

This short summarising article highlights some key findings of a study on the impact of digitalisation on the internationalisation policies and practices of German higher education institutions (HEIs). It examines the evolving landscape of virtual internationalisation (VI) within HEIs, drawing on findings from the INDISTRA project and the 6th Global Survey of the International University Association (IAU). Prompted by accelerated digitalisation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the study investigates strategies, drivers, priorities, and challenges associated with VI.

For 25 years, Wissenschaft weltoffen has provided a valid basis for monitoring the internationalisation of studies and research in Germany and around the world. Every year, it sheds light on developments relating to international students and researchers in Germany, the mobility patterns of students and researchers from Germany abroad as well as academic mobility patterns worldwide. As of 2024, it also analyses structural aspects of internationalisation, such as university administrative staff, the availability of English-language study programmes, international university partnerships and third-party funding, plus transnational educational programmes.

Ten years after many refugees immigrated to Germany in 2015, some have made their way into higher education. This was achieved with the help of support programmes from the federal and state governments. Two important factors for academic success are social and academic integration at the university. Refugees with foreign and domestic university entrance qualifications are at a significant disadvantage in this respect compared to other student groups.