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“When I Grow Up I Want to be a Doctor”: Promoting Atikamekw children’s interest for health professions through a book collection
(2015-06-20)Introduction: Aboriginal peoples are underrepresented within the healthcare professions, and recruitment of Aboriginal students has become a priority for medical schools in Canada. Because of very low high-school completion rates among youth living ... -
Which scientific elites? : on the concentration of research funds, publications and citations
(Oxford University Press, 2010-03-01)Using the population of all university professors (N=13,479) in the province of Quebec (Canada), this paper analyses the concentration of funding, papers and citations at the level of individual researchers. It shows that each of these distributions ... -
Who are the acknowledgees? An analysis of gender and academic status
(MIT Press, 2020-06-01)Acknowledgements found in scholarly papers allow for credit attribution of nonauthor contributors. As such, they are associated with a different kind of recognition than authorship. While several studies have shown that social factors affect authorship ... -
Who influence the music tastes of adolescents? A study on interpersonal influence in social networks
(ACM, 2012)Research on music information behavior demonstrates that people rely primarily on others to discover new music. This paper reports on a qualitative study aiming at exploring more in-depth how music information circulates within the social networks of ... -
Who profits from the Canadian nanotechnology reward system? Implications for gender-responsible innovation
(Springer, 2021-07-01)Gender equality is one of the primary dimensions of responsible research and innovation. Based on bibliometric and survey data of nanotechnology researchers in Canada, this paper analyzes the reward system of science in terms of gender and gender-related ... -
Words by the tail : assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits
(Public library of science, 2018-07-09)This research assesses the evolution of lexical diversity in scholarly titles using a new indicator based on zipfian frequency-rank distribution tail fits. At the operational level, while both head and tail fits of zipfian word distributions are more ...