• 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 ...
  • Scientific collaboration and high-technology exchanges among BRICS and G-7 countries 

    Bouabid, Hamid; Paul-Hus, Adèle; Larivière, Vincent (Springer, 2015-12-21)
    Over the last two decades, emerging countries located outside North America and Europe have reshaped the global economy. These countries are also increasing their share of the world’s scientific output. This paper analyzes the evolution of BRICS (Brazil, ...
  • Scientific mobility indicators in practice : international mobility profiles at the country level 

    Indicadores de movilidad científica en acción : Perfiles de movilidad internacional a nivel de país
    Robinson-Garcia, Nicolás; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Murray, Dakota; Yegros-Yegros, Alfredo; Larivière, Vincent; Costas, Rodrigo (2018)
    This paper presents and describes the methodological opportunities offered by bibliometric data to produce indicators of scientific mobility. Large bibliographic datasets of disambiguated authors and their affiliations allow for the possibility of ...
  • Scientific publications and patenting by companies : a study of the whole population of Canadian firms over 25 years 

    Archambault, Éric; Larivière, Vincent (Oxford University Press, 2011-05-01)
    There is evidence in the literature that technological inventions have an increasing connection to scientific knowledge. This raises two related questions: (1) Are firms increasingly conducting scientific basic research? (2) Is being at the scientific ...
  • Scientists popularizing science : characteristics and impact of TED talk presenters 

    Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Thelwal, Mike; Larivière, Vincent; Tsou, Andrew; Mongeon, Philippe; Macaluso, Benoit (Public library of science, 2013-04-30)
    The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference and associated website of recorded conference presentations (TED Talks) is a highly successful disseminator of science-related videos, claiming over a billion online views. Although hundreds of ...
  • Self-selected or mandated, open access increases citation impact for higher quality research 

    Gargouri, Yassine; Hajjem, Chawki; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves; Carr, Les; Brody, Tim; Harnad, Stevan (Public library of science, 2010-10-18)
    Background: Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by selfarchiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on the web (‘‘Open Access’’, OA) are cited significantly more than ...
  • Les sept piliers de l’économie du document 

    Salaün, Jean-Michel (2011-04)
    Préalables au cours de maîtrise en sciences de l'information sur l'économie du document. Après avoir montré l'oubli de la notion de document par les économistes, le texte insiste sur sept caractéristiques de son économie, présentées comme sept piliers ...
  • Les services jeunesse des bibliothèques publiques québécoises : une prestation à plusieurs mains 

    Cloutier-Marenger, Cynthia; Martel, Marie D.; Dufour, Christine (Éditions ASTED, 2023-03-29)
    Entre novembre 2021 et mars 2022 se tenait l’Enquête sur les services jeunesse dans les bibliothèques publiques du Québec, qui avait pour objectif inédit de brosser le portrait des services jeunesse offerts dans les bibliothèques publiques de la province, ...
  • A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions 

    Larivière, Vincent; Kiermer, Véronique; MacCallum, Catriona J.; McNutt, Marcia; Patterson, Mark; Pulverer, Bernd; Swaminathan, Sowmya; Taylor, Stuart; Curry, Stephen (2016-09)
    Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for generating the citation distributions ...
  • A small world of citations? : the influence of collaboration networks on citation practices 

    Wallace, Matthew L.; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Public library of science, 2012-03-07)
    This paper examines the proximity of authors to those they cite using degrees of separation in a co-author network, essentially using collaboration networks to expand on the notion of self-citations. While the proportion of direct selfcitations ...
  • Social media in scholarly communication : a review of the literature and empirical analysis of Twitter use by SSHRC doctoral award recipients 

    Work, Samantha; Haustein, Stefanie; Bowman, Timothy D.; Larivière, Vincent (2015)
    This report has been commissioned by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to analyze the role that social media currently plays in scholarly communication as well as to what extent metrics derived from social media activity ...
  • Special issue on bibliographic data sources 

    Waltman, Ludo; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2020-02-20)
  • Stability and longevity in the publication careers of U.S. doctorate recipients 

    Waaijer, Cathelijn J. F.; Macaluso, Benoit; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (Public library of science, 2016-04-29)
    Since the 1950s, the number of doctorate recipients has risen dramatically in the United States. In this paper, we investigate whether the longevity of doctorate recipients’ publication careers has changed. This is achieved by matching 1951–2010 ...
  • The state of green open access in Canadian universities = L’état de libre accès vert dans les universités canadiennes 

    Riddle, Poppy; Simard, Marc-André; Gone, Pallavi; Li, Vinson; Mongeon, Philippe (Association canadienne des sciences de l'information, 2023)
    This study investigates the use of institutional repositories for self-archiving peerreviewed work in the U15 (an association of fifteen Canadian research-intensive universities). It relates usage with university open access (OA) policy types and ...
  • The state of OA : a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles 

    Piwowar, Heather; Priem, Jason; Larivière, Vincent; Alperin, Juan Pablo; Matthias, Lisa; Norlander, Bree; Farley, Ashley; West, Jevin; Haustein, Stefanie (PeerJ, 2018-02-13)
    Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an open online ...
  • A step-by-step guide for building localised versions of the MIC site. Version 1.1 

    Turner, James; Sambaíno, Samira; El Sahn, Marwa (2008-07-24)
    This is a test version of the kit for localising the Moving Image Collections (MIC) site, designed in the context of a research project undertaken by the Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) of IFLA.
  • The sum of it all : revealing collaboration patterns by combining authorship and acknowledgements 

    Paul-Hus, Adèle; Mongeon, Philippe; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Larivière, Vincent (Elsevier, 2016-12-01)
    Acknowledgments are one of many conventions by which researchers publicly bestow recognition towards individuals, organizations and institutions that contributed in some way to the work that led to publication. Combining data on both co-authors and ...
  • Task specialization across research careers 

    Robinson-Garcia, Nicolás; Costas, Rodrigo; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent; Nane, Gabriela F. (eLife Sciences Publications, 2020-10-28)
    Research careers are typically envisioned as a single path in which a scientist starts as a member of a team working under the guidance of one or more experienced scientists and, if they are successful, ends with the individual leading their own research ...
  • Team size matters : collaboration and scientific impact since 1900 

    Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Tsou, Andrew (Association for information science and technology, 2014-11-06)
    This paper provides the first historical analysis of the relationship between collaboration and scientific impact, using three indicators of collaboration (number of authors, number of addresses, and number of countries) and including articles published ...
  • Ten-year analysis of University of Minho Green OA self-archiving mandate 

    Gargouri, Yassine; Harnad, Stevan; Larivière, Vincent (2013)
    University of Minho adopted the first university-wide Green Open Access Man-date in Europe in 2004, requiring all research output to be self-archived in the institution’s repository. The mandate was upgraded in 2011 to designate the repository ...
  • Text Summarization by Sentence Extraction and Syntactic Pruning 

    Gagnon, Michel; Da Sylva, Lyne (2005-08)
    Nous présentons une méthode hybride pour le résumé de texte, en combinant l'extraction de phrases et l'élagage syntaxique des phrases extraites. L'élagage syntaxique est effectué sur la base d’une analyse complète des phrases selon un parseur de ...
  • Textual analysis of artificial intelligence manuscripts reveals features associated with peer review outcome 

    Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2021-07-15)
    We analyzed a data set of scientific manuscripts that were submitted to various conferences in artificial intelligence. We performed a combination of semantic, lexical, and psycholinguistic analyses of the full text of the manuscripts and compared them ...
  • A theoretical foundation for the ethical distribution of authorship in multidisciplinary publications 

    Smith, Elise (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)
    In academia, authorship on publications confers merit as well as responsibility. The respective disciplines adhere to their “typical” authorship practices: individuals may be named in alphabetical order (e.g., in economics, mathematics), ranked in ...
  • Les traitements documentaires automatiques et le passage du temps 

    Da Sylva, Lyne (2004)
    Dans cet article, nous examinons le sort des documents qui ne sont pas destinés à vivre longtemps et qui ne méritent ainsi aucun traitement documentaire traditionnel. Nous défendrons la thèse que les traitements automatiques, bien que produisant des ...
  • Trends in brain research : a bibliometric analysis 

    Simard, Marc-André; Kozlowski, Diego; Segal, Julia; Messer, Mia; Ocay, Don Daniel; Saari, Toni; Ferland, Catherine E.; Larivière, Vincent (Cambridge University Press, 2023-11-07)
    Background: Bibliometrics methods have allowed researchers to assess the popularity of brain research through the ever-growing number of brain-related research papers. While many topics of brain research have been covered by previous studies, there ...
  • Les trois dimensions de l’économie du document 

    Salaün, Jean-Michel (2011-10)
    Le travail collectif de Pédauque a mis en évidence les trois dimensions du document : la forme, le texte ou contenu et la relation (« Vu », « Lu » et « Su »), cet article montre comment ces approches se déclinent dans un raisonnement économique et ...
  • Tweeting biomedicine : an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Peters, Isabella; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Thelwall, Mike; Larivière, Vincent (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 from social media activities ...
  • Tweets as impact indicators : examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on Twitter 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Bowman, Timothy D.; Holmberg, Kim; Tsou, Andrew; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (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 such bots from the perspective ...
  • Tweets vs. Mendeley readers : how do these two social media metrics differ? 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Larivière, Vincent; Thelwall, Mike; Amyot, Didier; Peters, Isabella (Oldenbourg Verlag, 2014)
    A set of 1.4 million biomedical papers was analyzed with regards to how often articles are mentioned on Twitter or saved by users on Mendeley. While Twitter is a microblogging platform used by a general audience to distribute information, Mendeley ...
  • Uncited papers are not useless 

    Golosovsky, Michael; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2021)
    We study the citation dynamics of the papers published in three scientific disciplines (Physics, Economics, and Mathematics) and four broad scientific categories (Medical, Natural, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities). We measure the uncitedness ...
  • The use of bibliometrics for assessing research : possibilities, limitations and adverse effects 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Larivière, Vincent (2015)
    Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in the light of limited resources ...
  • Using Ancillary Text to Index Web-based Multimedia Objects 

    Da Sylva, Lyne; Turner, James (2006-06)
    PériCulture est le nom d'un projet de recherche à l'Université de Montréal qui fait partie d'un projet plus vaste basé à l'Université de Sherbrooke. Ce dernier visait à former un réseau de recherche pour la gestion du contenu culturel numérique canadien. ...
  • The utilitarian and hedonic outcomes of music information seeking in everyday life 

    Laplante, Audrey; Downie, J. Stephen (Elsevier, 2011)
    This qualitative study focuses on what contributes to making a music information-seeking experience satisfying in the context of everyday life. Data were collected through in-depth interviews conducted with 15 younger adults (18 to 29 years old). The ...
  • Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published research 

    Larivière, Vincent; Macaluso, Benoit; Mongeon, Philippe; Siler, Kyle; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Public library of science, 2018-08-14)
    Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in industrial and governmental settings, but very little empirical evidence exists about the phenomenon. This article provides a systematic and historical analysis of the contribution of various ...
  • Vers une architecture fonctionnelle : examen des espaces intérieurs des bibliothèques universitaires québécoises 

    Sauvé, Jean-Sébastien (Les Éditions ASTED, 2022-06-02)
    Le présent article propose de comparer six bibliothèques universitaires québécoises édifiées entre 1893 et 2019 afin d’y reconnaître une évolution des caractéristiques de leurs espaces architecturaux. Une grille d’analyse des caractéristiques des espaces ...
  • The weakening relationship between the impact factor and papers' citations in the digital age 

    Lozano, George A.; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Wiley, 2012-10-08)
    Historically, papers have been physically bound to the journal in which they were published but in the electronic age papers are available individually, no longer tied to their respective journals. Hence, papers now can be read and cited based on ...
  • Web 2.0, organisations et archivistique 

    Dufour, Christine (2009)
    Le Web se caractérise de bien des façons, un de ses traits dominants étant son caractère hautement évolutif. Bien que relativement jeune, il en est déjà à sa deuxième génération – on parle du Web 2.0 – et certains entrevoient déjà le Web 3.0. Cette ...
  • Web et théorie du document: utopie des ingénieurs et appétit des entrepreneurs 

    Salaün, Jean-Michel (ADBS-Édition, 2010-11-15)
    Cet article illustre la pertinence d’une théorie du document le représentant en trois dimensions complémentaires : forme, texte, médium. Deux exemples sont proposés : l’évolution de la conception du web par son inventeur Tim Berners-Lee qui passe ...
  • Web, texte, conversation et redocumentarisation 

    Salaün, Jean-Michel (Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2008-03)
    Les moteurs de recherche utilisent principalement des outils linguistiques et statistiques et considèrent implicitement la toile comme le vaste texte d’une conversation mondiale et ininterrompue. Le Web remet en cause l’ordre documentaire comme un ...
  • What’s in between? : the unarchived and unarchivable space of found-footage cinema 

    Winand, Annaëlle (The Association of Canadian Archivists, 2023-05-30)
    Between archives, as documentary by-products of human activity retained for their long-term value, and the archive, as a concept used outside of the discourse of professional archivists, there is a semantic, conceptual, and theoretical gap. However, ...
  • Which scientific elites? : on the concentration of research funds, publications and citations 

    Larivière, Vincent; Macaluso, Benoit; Archambault, Éric; Gingras, Yves (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 

    Paul-Hus, Adèle; Mongeon, Philippe; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Larivière, Vincent (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 

    Laplante, Audrey (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 

    Ghiasi, Gita; Beaudry, Catherine; Larivière, Vincent; St-Pierre, Carl; Schiffauerova, Andrea; Harsh, Matthew (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 

    Bérubé, Nicolas; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Mongeon, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (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 ...