Rogue Scholar Newsletter November 2025

By Martin Fenner | December 5, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.53731/aa1rk-1xf54

This is the November issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.

Blogs added to Rogue Scholar

Two blogs were added in November. Welcome! These two blogs have special meaning for me, as I am on the dblp Steering Committee, and Front Matter is an InvenioRDM project partner, with the software powering the Rogue Scholar repository platform. This brings the number of participating blogs to 187, and the number of archived posts to 47,882.

blog.dblp.org

A blog about the dblp computer science bibliography.
Information Systems, English.
https://blog.dblp.org/

Invenio Blog

Follow news and updates from the Invenio community.
Information Systems, English.
https://inveniosoftware.org/

Technical Updates

The focus of the technical work in November was on improving subject classification, described in detail in a blog post this week. Rogue Scholar is migrating from the OECD Fields of Science to the CWTS/OpenAlex subject classification and uses automatic topic classification based on blog post title and abstract. 7,695 blog posts have already been classified, with 28.8% having a score of at least 0.25. Those topics are being displayed and linked in Rogue Scholar:

*CWTS/OpenAlex subfields and topics displayed* *in the sidebar*.

Community Updates

Following the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) self-assessment in October, Rogue Scholar in November started work on becoming a German non-profit organization in 2026. The process will take a few months, and many details have yet to be worked out.

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References

Fenner, M. (2025, November 26). Rogue Scholar is improving subject classification. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/8gwcz-gv749
Van Eck, N. J., & Waltman, L. (2024, January 24). An open approach for classifying research publications. Leiden Madtrics. https://doi.org/10.59350/qc0px-76778
Fenner, M. (2025, October 20). Rogue Scholar follows the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/m65a8-6sm21
Fenner, M. (2025, November 3). Rogue Scholar is becoming a German Non-Profit Organization. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/rftfk-qv692