Do researchers actually reuse publicly available data and code? For years, this question sat at the heart of open science advocacy, yet answers were largely anecdotal. Despite strong policy signals and growing expectations around data sharing, there was no reliable, scalable way to measure whether shared datasets were being reused—or what impact that reuse had […]
This post is authored by DataSeer Founder and CEO Tim Vines with coauthors Ben Kaub, Adam Day, and Kristen Ratan. It originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen blog January 28, 2026. Back in April 2024, Tim Vines and Ben Kaube put together a Scholarly Kitchen post that took the concept of honest signaling — a theory for why
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The past few years have been transformative ones for scholarly communications, and DataSeer is no exception. In 2024 we set out to make journal open science checks more sustainable, putting research integrity best-practice within research for more journals and researchers. Today, the revolution in reasoning LLMs blossomed into DataSeer SnapShot: a robust AI-powered editorial technology
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In 2024, DataSeer and the Center for Open Science (COS) entered into a partnership designed to help support COS’ pioneering Lifecycle Journal. Lifecycle Journal embraces a pioneering, transparent model of scholarly communication that enables research outputs to be shared and evaluated in all stages of the research lifecycle. It makes submissions public before undergoing evaluation,
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This post is authored by DataSeer Founder and CEO Tim Vines. It originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen blog November 4, 2025. Academic publishing has long been a popularity contest: each journal is an exclusive club to which many are drawn, but only a few get invited in. The best clubs feature the most brilliant editors, the
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NOTE: This post was written by Rebecca Taylor Grant, Director of Open Research for Taylor & Francis together with Tim Vines, Founder and CEO of DataSeer, and Adrian Stanley, Partnerships Director for DataSeer. It originally appeared on the ALPSP blog as part of a series highlighting 2025 finalists for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in
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This post is coauthored by Tim Vines and Ben Kaube. Tim is the founder and CEO of DataSeer. Ben is a cofounder of Cassyni, a platform for helping publishers and institutions create and engage communities of researchers using seminars. It originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen blog April 16, 2024. Assessing research integrity issues for articles
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