• The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus : a comparative analysis 

    Mongeon, Philippe; Paul-Hus, Adèle (Springer, 2015-10-19)
    Bibliometric methods are used in multiple fields for a variety of purposes, namely for research evaluation. Most bibliometric analyses have in common their data sources: Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier’s Scopus. The objective ...
  • The kiss of death? : the effect of being cited in a reviewon subsequent citations 

    Lachance, Christian; Poirier, Steve; Larivière, Vincent (Association for information science and technology, 2014-01-27)
    This article inquires into recent claims that citation in a review article provokes a decline in a paper’s later citation count, these being instead given to the review. Using the Science Citation Index Expanded, we looked at the yearly percentages ...
  • Knowledge sharing in global health research : the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature 

    Smith, Elise; Haustein, Stefanie; Mongeon, Philippe; Shu, Fei; Ridde, Valery; Larivière, Vincent (BMC, 2017)
    Background: In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia has a highly endemic potential of Ebola warning health authorities of the risk for potential outbreaks; this journal is only available by subscription. Limiting the ...
  • The KRESCENT Program (2005-2015) : an evaluation of the state of Kidney Research Training in Canada 

    Burns, Kevin D.; Levin, Adeera; Fowler, Elisabeth; Butcher, Leah; Turcotte, Marc; Makarchuk, Mary-Jo; Macaluso, Benoit; Larivière, Vincent; Sherman, Philip M. (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 health research. Objective: ...
  • The linguistic patterns and rhetorical structure of citation context : an approach using n-grams 

    Bertin, Marc; Atanassova, Iana; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (Springer, 2016)
    Using the full-text corpus of more than 75,000 research articles published by seven PLOS journals, this paper proposes a natural language processing approach for identifying the function of citations. Citation contexts are assigned based on the ...
  • Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact 

    Larivière, Vincent; Haustein, Stefanie; Börner, Katy (Public library of science, 2015-03-30)
    Scholarly collaborations across disparate scientific disciplines are challenging. Collaborators are likely to have their offices in another building, attend different conferences, and publish in other venues; they might speak a different scientific ...
  • The many faces of mobility : using bibliometric data to measure the movement of scientists 

    Robinson-Garcia, Nicolás; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Murray, Dakota; Yegros-Yegros, Alfredo; Larivière, Vincent; Costas, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2019-03-01)
    This paper presents a methodological framework for developing scientific mobility indicators based on bibliometric data. We identify nearly 16 million individual authors from publications covered in the Web of Science for the 2008–2015 period. Based ...
  • Mapping information research in Canada = Cartographier la recherche en science de l’information au Canada 

    Mongeon, Philippe; Gracey, Catherine; Riddle, Poppy; Hare, Madelaine; Simard, Marc-André; Sauvé, Jean-Sébastien (Association canadienne des sciences de l'information, 2023-11-06)
    This study examines the Canadian information research landscape through the lens of the eight academic units hosting ALA-accredited programs. We created a citation-based network utilizing the scholarly articles published by the faculty members and ...
  • Mapping the biomedical sciences using Medical Subject Headings : a comparison between MeSH coassignments and MeSH citation pairs 

    Shu, Fei; Qiu, Junping; Larivière, Vincent (Medical Library Association, 2021-07)
    Objective: This study compares two maps of biomedical sciences using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) term coassignments versus MeSH terms of citing/cited articles and reveals similarities and differences between the two approaches. Methods: MeSH terms ...
  • Measuring interdisciplinarity 

    Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (2014)
  • La médiation wiki et les GLAMS 

    Martel, Marie D. (2018-07-13)
  • Mesurer la science 

    Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2018)
    L’ensemble de la communauté scientifique réclame depuis plusieurs années des indicateurs fiables permettant de mesurer les répercussions de la recherche. La ferveur inégalée autour de la mesure de l’influence de la recherche, combinée avec les nouveaux ...
  • Misconduct and misbehavior related to authorship disagreements in collaborative science 

    Smith, Elise; Williams-Jones, Bryn; Zubin, Master; Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Paul-Hus, Adèle; Shi, Min; Resnik, David B. (Springer, 2019-06-03)
    Scientific authorship serves to identify and acknowledge individuals who “contribute significantly” to published research. However, specific authorship norms and practices often differ within and across disciplines, labs, and cultures. As a consequence, ...
  • Misconduct policies, academic culture and career stage, not gender or pressures to publish, affect scientific integrity 

    Fanelli, Daniele; Costas, Rodrigo; Larivière, Vincent (Public library of science, 2015-06-17)
    The honesty and integrity of scientists is widely believed to be threatened by pressures to publish, unsupportive research environments, and other structural, sociological and psychological factors. Belief in the importance of these factors has inspired ...
  • Modeling a century of citation distributions 

    Wallace, Matthew L.; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Elsevier, 2009-05-06)
    The prevalence of uncited papers or of highly cited papers, with respect to the bulk of publications, provides important clues as to the dynamics of scientific research. Using 25 million papers and 600 million references from the Web of Science over ...
  • A multidimensional analysis of Aslib proceedings – using everything but the impact factor 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Larivière, Vincent (Emerald, 2014-07-15)
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the journal impact factor (IF) is not able to reflect the full impact of scholarly journals and provides an overview of alternative and complementary methods in journal evaluation. Design/methodo ...
  • Multidimensional journal evaluation : analyzing scientific periodicals beyond the impact factor 

    Haustein, Stefanie (De Gruyter Saur, 2012)
    Scientific communication depends primarily on publishing in journals. The most important indicator to determine the influence of a journal is the Impact Factor. Since this factor only measures the average number of citations per article in a certain ...
  • Multiple perspectives on sound art documentation : an empirical study 

    Boutard, Guillaume; Guastavino, Catherine (2024-04-23)
    During the project sound art documentation (sad-sask) we conducted a pilot study on the use of spatial audio recordings to question documentation practice from multiple expert perspectives.
  • National differences in dissemination and use of open access literature 

    Simard, Marc-André; Ghiasi, Gita; Mongeon, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (Public Library of Science, 2022-08-09)
    Open Access (OA) dissemination has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last decade, thanks to the implementation of several OA policies by funders and institutions, as well as the development of several new platforms that facilitate the publication ...
  • The oligopoly of academic publishers in the digital era 

    Larivière, Vincent; Haustein, Stefanie; Mongeon, Philippe (Public Library of Science, 2015-06-10)
    The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers’ high profit margins. However, the share of scientific output published ...
  • The oligopoly’s shift to open access : how the big five academic publishers profit from article processing charges 

    Butler, Leigh-Ann; Matthias, Lisa; Simard, Marc-André; Mongeon, Philippe; Haustein, Stefanie (MIT Press, 2023-08-03)
    This study aims to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley between 2015 ...
  • On the citation lifecycle of papers with delayed recognition 

    Lachance, Christian; Larivière, Vincent (Elsevier, 2014-09-18)
    Delayed recognition is a concept applied to articles that receive very few to no citations for a certain period of time following publication, before becoming actively cited. To determine whether such a time spent in relative obscurity had an effect ...
  • On the compliance of women engineers with a gendered scientific system 

    Ghiasi, Gita; Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Public library of science, 2015-12-30)
    There has been considerable effort in the last decade to increase the participation of women in engineering through various policies. However, there has been little empirical research on gender disparities in engineering which help underpin the ...
  • On the composition of scientific abstracts 

    Atanassova, Iana; Bertin, Marc; Larivière, Vincent (Emerald, 2016-07-11)
    Purpose Scientific abstracts reproduce only part of the information and the complexity of argumentation in a scientific article. The purpose of this paper provides a first analysis of the similarity between the text of scientific abstracts and the ...
  • On the effects of the reunification on German researchers’ publication patterns 

    Archambault, Antoine; Mongeon, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (Springer, 2017-01-28)
    After developing independently following World War II, the research systems of East and West Germany reunited at the end of the Cold War, resulting in Westernization of East German Research institutions. Using data from the Web of Science over the ...
  • On the prevalence and scientific impact of duplicate publications in different scientific fields (1980‐2007) 

    Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Emerald, 2010-03-09)
    The issue of duplicate publications has received a lot of attention in the medical literature, but much less in the information science community. This paper aims at analyzing the prevalence and scientific impact of duplicate publications across all ...
  • On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact 

    Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Association for information science and technology, 2009-12-09)
    This article analyzes the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual articles. Using all the articles published in Web of Science in 2000, we define the degree of interdisciplinarity of a given article as the percentage of its ...
  • On the shoulders of students? The contribution of PhD students to the advancement of knowledge 

    Larivière, Vincent (Springer, 2011-09-06)
    Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000–2007 period, this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort. It shows that PhD students contribute to about a third of ...
  • On the topicality and research impact of special issues 

    Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Mongeon, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2019)
    The publication of special issues constitute an important yet underinvestigated phenomenon of scholarly communication. In an attempt to draw attention to the proliferation of special issues, Priem (2006) suggested that their commissioning has an ...
  • Opening science : the rebirth of a scholarly journal 

    Waltman, Ludo; Larivière, Vincent; Milojević, Staša; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (MIT Press, 2020)
  • Les paradigmes de la revue Criminologie : auteurs, revues et disciplines qui ont marqué son histoire 

    Paradigms from Criminologie: Authors, journals, and disciplines that shaped its history = Los paradigmas de la revista Criminologie: Autores, revistas y disciplinas que marcaron su historia
    Leclerc, Chloé; Ream, Fyscillia; Décary-Hétu, David; Macaluso, Benoit; Larivière, Vincent (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018)
    Cet article vise à décrire les influences intellectuelles de la revue Criminologie. Pour ce faire, les 19 813 références faites par les articles publiés dans la revue Criminologie au cours des 40 dernières années sont analysées de manière à ...
  • PhD students’ excellence scholarships and their relationship with research productivity, scientific impact, and degree completion 

    Larivière, Vincent (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, this paper analyzes three ...
  • Une place pour les femmes et les enfants : l’émergence de la bibliothèque jeunesse au Québec 

    Martel, Marie D. (2021-05-06)
    Les études menées pour mettre en lumière l’héritage des femmes à la bibliothéconomie québécoise a récemment permis de révéler dans ses marges une autre trame historique : celle de l’émergence de la bibliothèque jeunesse. Cette histoire permet de redonner ...
  • Les pratiques pédagogiques exemplaires en sciences de l'information : 21 fiches annotées 

    Maurel, Dominique; Gharbi, Zeïneb; Mas, Sabine; Payette, Luce; Da Sylva, Lyne; Leroux, Éric (2006-08)
    Ce rapport présente les résultats de projets d'intégration pédagogique réalisés dans le cadre du Comité local d'intégration pédagogique (CLIP) de l'École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) de l'Université de Montréal. Cet ...
  • Predatory publishers’ latest scam : bootlegged and rebranded papers 

    Siler, Kyle; Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (Nature research, 2021-10-26)
    To thwart publishing rackets that undermine scholars and scholarly publishing, legitimate journals should show their workings.
  • Predicting the age of researchers using bibliometric data 

    Nane, Gabriela F.; Larivière, Vincent; Costas, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2017-08)
    The age of researchers is a critical factor necessary to study the bibliometric characteristics of the scholars that produce new knowledge. In bibliometric studies, the age of scientific authors is generally missing; however, the year of the first ...
  • Preface : A Threshold to the Work at Hand 

    Desrochers, Nadine; Apollon, Daniel (Information Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global, 2014)
    The paratext framework is now used in a variety of fields to assess, measure, analyze, and comprehend the elements that provide thresholds, allowing scholars to better understand digital objects. Researchers from many disciplines revisit paratextual ...
  • Preservation strategies for mixed music : the long tail and the short tail 

    Boutard, Guillaume (International Computer Music Association, 2020-10-20)
    I have recently argued (Boutard 201 9)that preservation of digital technologyin mixed music should build upon thework done for the past ten years indigital preservation in relation tocultural heritage institutions, namelylibraries, archives and ...
  • The production of knowledge in Canada : consolidation and diversification 

    Godin, Benoît; Doré, Christian; Larivière, Vincent (University of Toronto Press, 2002)
    The Canadian innovation system is composed of four main sectors: university, hospital, government, and industry. This paper analyzes each sector’s strengths and weaknesses in terms of its scientific production. It is shown that Canadian science is ...
  • Publish or impoverish : an investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (1999-2016) 

    Quan, Wei; Chen, Bikun; Shu, Fei (Emerald, 2017)
    Although monetary rewards have been used for recognizing scientific achievement since the eighteenth century, it is not regarded as the major reward system in science as described by Merton (1973), in which scientists publish their works and receive ...
  • La redocumentarisation, un défi pour les sciences de l’information 

    Salaün, Jean-Michel (2007)
    Les sciences de l’information, construites sur la base d’un processus de documentarisation démarré à la fin du XIXème siècle, sont avec le numérique confrontées à la nécessité de se renouveler. Le mouvement actuel s’apparente à une redocumentarisation ...
  • Relationships between interlibrary loan and research activity in Canada 

    Duy, Joanna C.; Larivière, Vincent (Association of college and research libraries, 2014)
    Interlibrary Loan borrowing rates in academic libraries are influenced by an array of factors. This article explores the relationship between interlibrary loan borrowing activity and research activity at 42 Canadian academic institutions. A significant ...
  • Les répercussions du financement de la recherche et de la production scientifique sur l’impact scientifique dans les domaines de la santé, des sciences de la nature et du génie : les femmes universitaires québécoises sont-elles vraiment à la traîne? 

    Beaudry, Catherine; Larivière, Vincent (Institut de la statistique du Québec, 2014)
    L’article vise à déterminer si la productivité scientifique, le facteur d’impact des revues, la taille des équipes de collaboration et le financement de la recherche ont une influence sur la propension à recevoir davantage de citations en moyenne, et ...
  • Researchers’ individual publication rate has not increased in a century 

    Fanelli, Daniele; Larivière, Vincent (Public library of science, 2016-03-09)
    Debates over the pros and cons of a “publish or perish” philosophy have inflamed academia for at least half a century. Growing concerns, in particular, are expressed for policies that reward “quantity” at the expense of “quality,” because these might ...
  • Researchers’ perceptions of ethical authorship distribution in collaborative research teams 

    Smith, Elise; Williams-Jones, Bryn; Master, Zubin; Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Paul-Hus, Adèle; Shi, Min; Diller, Elena; Caudle, Katie; Resnik, David B. (Springer, 2020-08)
    Authorship is commonly used as the basis for the measurement of research productivity. It influences career progression and rewards, making it a valued commodity in a competitive scientific environment. To better understand authorship practices amongst ...
  • Researchers’ publication patterns and their use for author disambiguation 

    Larivière, Vincent; Macaluso, Benoit (2014)
    Over the recent years, we are witnessing an increase of the need for advanced bibliometric indicators on individual researchers and research groups, for which author disambiguation is needed. Using the complete population of university professors and ...
  • Réseau de recherche E-Inclusion, thème 3 : Audiovision interactive et adaptable, projet 3.1, rapport final 

    Mathieu, Suzanne; Turner, James (2007-05-15)
    Le Réseau de recherche E-Inclusion a pour but de permettre à tous les Canadiens d’accéder au contenu informationnel de documents audiovisuels. Le thème 3 du projet, Audiovision interactive et adaptable, avait pour but d'offrir des lignes directrices ...
  • Retours et détours autour de la diffusion 

    Winand, Annaëlle; Walton, Diana; Wenglenski, Virginie (Université de Montréal, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, 2024-04)
    Le 9e symposium du Groupe interdisciplinaire de recherche en archivistique (GIRA), qui s’est déroulé le 24 mars 2023 à l’Université de Montréal, a eu pour thème la diffusion. Expression proprement québécoise proposée en 1982 dans le premier manuel ...
  • Review of contemporary sound installation practices in Québec 

    Boutard, Guillaume; Guastavino, Catherine; Bernier, Nicolas; Gauthier, Philippe-Aubert; Fraisse, Valérian; Giannini, Nicola; Champagne, Julien (University of California Press, 2022-06-01)
    Continuing a trend of publications investigating sound art within a specific geographical context, this paper proposes an original view of the sound installation practice in Que´bec. This study is part of a research project aiming at building new ...
  • Revues savantes et diffusion des connaissances à l’ère numérique : une synthèse des pratiques 

    (Université de Montréal. Centre de recherche en droit public, 2018)
    Les revues ont joué un rôle de plus en plus central dans la recherche scientifique depuis qu’elles ont vu le jour dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Le numérique a fortement impacté ces dernières, et ont mené la diversification des lieux de ...
  • The rise of the middle author : investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship 

    Mongeon, Philippe; Smith, Elise; Joyal, Bruno; Larivière, Vincent (Public library of science, 2017-09-14)
    Contemporary biomedical research is performed by increasingly large teams. Consequently, an increasingly large number of individuals are being listed as authors in the bylines, which complicates the proper attribution of credit and responsibility to ...
  • The role of handbooks in knowledge creation and diffusion : a case of science and technology studies 

    Milojević, Staša; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent; Thelwall, Mike; Ding, Ying (Elsevier, 2014-07-09)
    Genre is considered to be an important element in scholarly communication and in the practice of scientific disciplines. However, scientometric studies have typically focused on a single genre, the journal article. The goal of this study is to ...
  • S'inspirer de Roger T. Pédauque 

    Salaün, Jean-Michel (C&F Éditions, 2006-09)
    Introduction à la lecture de trois textes collectifs sur la notion de document numérique, rédigés au sein du Réseau thématique pluridisciplinaire "Document et contenus" du Centre national de la recherche scientifique français.
  • Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics : a review of the literature 

    Work, Samantha; Larivière, Vincent; Haustein, Stefanie; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (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 of interactions with these ...