Serge P J M Horbach

Biographic Data

ID880171
NAMESerge P J M Horbach
GIVEN NAMESSerge P J M
FAMILY NAMEHorbach
SIGNATUREHORBACH S P J M
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0003-0406-6261
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Contextualizing the emerging and contested role of sleuths in the science monitoring system

    Open AccessSerge P J M Horbach, Austė ValinčiūtėARTICLEScience and Public Policy2026

    In light of persistent challenges to the quality and integrity of the research record, new monitoring practices of research are emerging in the form of scientific sleuthing. While quickly developing into a sizeable community of actors that is prominently engaging in scientific quality control, the role of scientific sleuths is both contested and poorly conceptualized. This perspective addresses this by positioning sleuths in the context of instit…

  • Open Science at the generative AI turn: An exploratory analysis of challenges and opportunities

    Open AccessMohammad Hosseini, Serge P J M Horbach et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2025

    Technology influences Open Science (OS) practices, because conducting science in transparent, accessible, and participatory ways requires tools and platforms for collaboration and sharing results. Due to this relationship, the characteristics of the employed technologies directly impact OS objectives. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used by researchers for tasks such as text refining, code generation/editing, reviewing …

  • The Library and the Database: Contrasting Expectations in Two Imaginaries for the Research Literature

    Open AccessWillem Halffman, Serge P J M HorbachARTICLEMinerva2025References: 3

    Two competing imaginaries inform the current wave of innovations in research publishing: one that perceives ‘the literature’ as a library of research accounts, and one that sees it as a gigantic database. While the library portrays acquiring knowledge as an act of reading texts informed by an understanding of its inter-textual setting, the database sees the literature as a collection of verified facts that can be extracted, ‘mined’. Both imaginar…

  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in the research process – A survey of researchers’ practices and perceptions

    Open AccessJens Peter Andersen, Lise Degn et al.ARTICLETechnology in Society2025Cited by: 14References: 1

  • The Journal Attention Cycle: Indicators as Assets in the Chinese Scientific Publishing Economy

    Open AccessJing Wang, Willem Halffman et al.ARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values2025References: 29

    This article analyzes how journal business models are built on variations of an attention cycle. In this cycle, measured attention in the form of bibliometric indicators becomes a key asset that can be converted into readership and submissions, which in turn may generate financial resources. Our article illustrates this in the context of the Chinese publication system, where varying attention cycles coexist. In the Chinese state-run system, measu…

  • Through the secret gate: A study of member-contributed submissions in PNAS

    Open AccessJens Peter Andersen, Serge P J M Horbach et al.ARTICLEScientometrics2024

    This work studies “Contributed” articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), a streamlined submission track for members of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). We assess the characteristics and impact of those articles and the background and status of their authors, by comparing these articles to PNAS articles following the traditional editorial process. Analyzing over 46,000 articl…

  • Thou Shalt Not! – How the institutional afterlife of research misconduct scandals shapes research integrity training

    Open AccessSerge P J M Horbach, Rachel Fishberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Responsible Innovation2024

    Contains fulltext : 311951.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)

  • Towards a Research Agenda for Promoting Responsible Research Practices

    Open AccessJoeri K Tijdink, Serge P J M Horbach et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2021Cited by: 3References: 1

    This opinion piece aims to inform future research funding programs on responsible research practices (RRP) based on three specific objectives: (1) to give a sketch of the current international discussion on responsible research practices (RRPs); (2) to give an overview of current initiatives and already obtained results regarding RRP; and (3) to give an overview of potential future needs for research on RRP. In this opinion piece, we have used se…

  • Stop blaming external factors: A historical-sociological argument

    Open AccessJesper Wiborg Schneider, Serge P J M Horbach et al.ARTICLESocial Science Information2021Cited by: 2References: 33

    With this commentary we respond to Olof Hallonsten's recent plea to stop evaluating science. In particular, we challenge two central premises of Hallonsten's argument, regarding both the scope of his argument and the claim that 'exogenous' metric evaluation of science on its own explains failures of the current scientific enterprise to produce certified knowledge. Even though we acknowledge that 'external' evaluation mechanisms of science likely …

  • On the Willingness to Report and the Consequences of Reporting Research Misconduct: The Role of Power Relations

    Open AccessSerge P J M Horbach, Eric Breit et al.ARTICLEScience and Engineering Ethics2020

    While attention to research integrity has been growing over the past decades, the processes of signalling and denouncing cases of research misconduct remain largely unstudied. In this article, we develop a theoretically and empirically informed understanding of the causes and consequences of reporting research misconduct in terms of power relations. We study the reporting process based on a multinational survey at eight European universities (N =…

  • Pandemic publishing: Medical journals strongly speed up their publication process for Covid-19

    Open AccessSerge P J M HorbachARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2020

    In times of public crises, including the current COVID-19 pandemic, rapid dissemination of relevant scientific knowledge is of paramount importance. The duration of scholarly journals’ publication process is one of the main factors that may hinder quick delivery of new information. Following initiatives of medical journals to accelerate their publication process, this study assesses whether medical journals have managed to speed up their publicat…