Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information - Travaux et publications by Author "Mongeon, Philippe"
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Authorship, citations, acknowledgments and visibility in social media : symbolic capital in the multifaceted reward system of science
(SAGE, 2018-02-01)The reward system of science is undergoing significant changes, as traditional indicators compete with initiatives that offer novel means of disseminating and assessing scholarly impact. This paper considers a number of aspects of this reward system, ... -
Big publishers, bigger profits : how the scholarly community lost the control of its journals
(Carleton University. Department of English language and literature, 2015)Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. While most journals in the print era were owned by academic institutions and scientific societies, ... -
Collection development in the era of big deals
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021)Drawing on an original methodology using citations, downloads, and survey data, this paper analyzes journal usage patterns across 28 Canadian universities. Results show that usage levels vary across disciplines and that different academic platforms ... -
A community of curious souls : an analysis of commenting behavior on TED talks videos
(Public library of science, 2014-04-09)The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks website hosts video recordings of various experts, celebrities, academics, and others who discuss their topics of expertise. Funded by advertising and members but provided free online, TED Talks have ... -
Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production
(SAGE, 2016-06-21)Scientific authorship has been increasingly complemented with contributorship statements. While such statements are said to ensure more equitable credit and responsibility attribution, they also provide an opportunity to examine the roles and functions ... -
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 misconduct accounts for ... -
From art to science : a bibliometric analysis of architectural scholarly production from 1980 to 2015
(Public Library of Science, 2022-11-03)According to recent literature on “architecture” as a discipline, practical knowledge relevant to its process of making has decreased in importance in favor of a more academic approach. Using data derived from Ulrich’s Periodical Directory and Clarivate ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 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 ... -
The rise of the middle author : investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship
(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 ... -
Scientists popularizing science : characteristics and impact of TED talk presenters
(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 ... -
The state of green open access in Canadian universities = L’état de libre accès vert dans les universités canadiennes
(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 ...
