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Costly collaborations : the impact of scientific fraud on co-authors’ careers
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-01-30)
Over the last few years, several major scientific fraud cases have shocked the scientific
community. The number of retractions each year has also increased tremendously, especially in
the biomedical field, and scientific ...
PhD students’ excellence scholarships and their relationship with research productivity, scientific impact, and degree completion
(Canadian society for the study of higher education, 2013-08-31)
This paper examines the relationship between excellence scholarships and research productivity,
scientific impact, and degree completion. Drawing on the entire population of doctoral students
in the province of Québec, ...
The KRESCENT Program (2005-2015) : an evaluation of the state of Kidney Research Training in Canada
(SAGE, 2017)
Background: The Kidney Research Scientist Core Education and National Training (KRESCENT) Program was launched
in 2005 to enhance kidney research capacity in Canada and foster knowledge translation across the 4 themes of ...
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics : a review of the literature
(Wiley, 2017-09)
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental
ways: principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the promotion of new indicators on
the basis ...
Are elite journals declining?
(Association for information science and technology, 2013-11-19)
Previous research indicates that during the past 20years, the highest-quality work has been published in anincreasingly diverse and larger group of journals. In thisarticle, we examine whether this diversification has ...
Tweeting biomedicine : an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature
(Association for information science and technology, 2013-11-26)
Data collected by social media platforms have been introduced as new sources for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to traditional citation analysis. Data generated ...
The diverse niches of megajournals : specialism within generalism
(Wiley, 2019-10-08)
Over the past decade, megajournals have expanded in popularity and established a
legitimate niche in academic publishing. Leveraging advantages of digital publishing, megajournals are characterized by large publication ...
arXiv E‐prints and the journal of record : an analysis of roles and relationships
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-01-27)
Since its creation in 1991, arXiv has become central to the diffusion of research in a number of fields. Combining data from the entirety of arXiv and the Web of Science (WoS), this article investigates (a) the proportion ...
Tweets as impact indicators : examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on Twitter
(2015-05-05)
This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific articles deposited on the preprint repository arXiv. It discusses the implication of the presence of ...
Estimating open access Mandate effectiveness : the MELIBEA score
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-12-23)
MELIBEA is a directory of institutional open‐access policies for research output that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the “strength” of open access (OA) mandates (registered in ROARMAP). ...