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Les influences disciplinaires de la criminologie (1991-2014)
The influences of various disciplines on criminology, 1991–2014 = Las influencias disciplinarias de la criminología (1991-2014)
(Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018)Au cours de son histoire, la criminologie a été influencée par de nombreuses disciplines. Elle est d’abord marquée, au début du xxe siècle, par la sociologie positiviste aux États-Unis et par la psychiatrie en Grande-Bretagne, avant d’être fortement ... -
The institutionalized stratification of the Chinese higher education system
(MIT Press, 2021-04-08)To promote research excellence, China’s government has been offering substantial financial support for a small group of selected universities through three national research programs (Project 211, Project 985, Double First Class). However, admission ... -
Interdisciplinarité
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L’internationalisation de la recherche scientifique québécoise : comparaisons nationales, disciplinaires et effets de sexe, 1980-2005
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Introduction - Permanence et changements
(Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal en col. avec La Découverte., 2009-08)Avec le web, les moteurs de recherche, les blogues et les wikis, la relation à l’information s’est transformée au point où les repères habituels s’émoussent et doivent être redéfinis de fond en comble. Du coup, le travail des archivistes et des ... -
Introduction : Comprendre et maîtriser la redocumentarisation du monde
(Cépadues Édition, 2007)Introduction du livre bilan du réseau thématique pluridisciplinaire du CNRS : "Document et contenu". Problématique générale et présentation des chapitres résumant les apports des groupes de travail. -
Introduction : Crossing Digital Thresholds on the Paratextual Tightrope
(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 ... -
Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)
(MIT Press, 2020)Contributorship statements were introduced by scholarly journals in the late 1990s to provide more details on the specific contributions made by authors to research papers. After more than a decade of idiosyncratic taxonomies by journals, a partnership ... -
Is it such a big deal? On the cost of journal use in the digital era
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018)Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundles of journals— known as big deals—that provide access to entire collections rather than individual journals. Following this new model, size of serial collections in academic libraries increased ... -
Is science built on the shoulders of women? : a study of gender differences in contributorship
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2016-08)Purpose: Women remain underrepresented in the production of scientific literature and relatively little is known regarding the labor roles played by women in the production of knowledge. This research examines these labor roles, using contributorship ... -
Is there a digital archivist in the room? : the preservation of musique mixte
(2018)Over the past decade, the field of musique mixte/mixed music preservation grew separate from the digital preservation research (and practice) community. This paper presents potential preservation directions for this repertoire, based on current ... -
The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus : a comparative analysis
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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La médiation wiki et les GLAMS
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Mesurer la science
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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)
(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
(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
(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
(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
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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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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)
(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
(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
(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?
(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 ...
