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  • How many is too many? : on the relationship between research productivity and impact 

    Larivière, Vincent; Costas, Rodrigo (Public library of science, 2016-09-28)
    Over the last few decades, the institutionalisation of quantitative research evaluations has created incentives for scholars to publish as many papers as possible. This paper assesses the effects of such incentives on individual researchers’ scientific ...
  • Illusions of a ‘Bond’: Tagging cultural products across online platforms 

    Desrochers, Nadine; Laplante, Audrey; Quan-Haase, Anabel; Martin, Kim; Spiteri, Louise (Emerald, 2016-06-09)
    La plupart des études sur l'étiquetage social porte sur une plateforme ou un type de plateforme précis, ce qui limite la portée de leurs résultats. Cette étude explore et compare les pratiques d'étiquetage social de quatre plateformes--Goodreads, un ...
  • The impact factor’s Matthew Effect : a natural experiment in bibliometrics 

    Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Association for information science and technology, 2009-10-08)
    Since the publication of Robert K. Merton’s theory of cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence at the level of papers, individual researchers, institutions, or countries. However, ...
  • Improving reproducibility in machine learning research : a report from the NeurIPS 2019 reproducibility program 

    Pineau, Joelle; Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe; Sinha, Koustuv; Larivière, Vincent; Beygelzimer, Alina; d’Alché-Buc, Florence; Fox, Emily; Larochelle, Hugo (Microtome Publishing, 2021)
    One of the challenges in machine learning research is to ensure that presented and published results are sound and reliable. Reproducibility, that is obtaining similar results as presented in a paper or talk, using the same code and data (when ...
  • In their own image? : a comparison of doctoral students' and faculty members' referencing behavior 

    Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Bergeron, Pierrette (Wiley, 2013-03-11)
    This article compares doctoral students' and faculty members' referencing behavior through the analysis of a large corpus of scientific articles. It shows that doctoral students tend to cite more documents per article than faculty members, and that the ...
  • L’incommensurable économie des bibliothèques 

    Salaün, Jean-Michel (2011)
    Le modèle de la bibliothèque, très ancien, s’est adapté aux évolutions des sociétés démontrant sa souplesse et sa robustesse. Il s’appuie sur un écosystème fondé sur le partage et comprend deux moments, celui de la constitution d’une collection et celui ...
  • 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)
    Nadeau, France; Mongeon, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (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 

    Shu, Fei; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (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 

    Prud’homme, Julien; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (Les presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2015-05)
  • Introduction - Permanence et changements 

    Arsenault, Clément; Salaün, Jean-Michel (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 

    Salaün, Jean-Michel; Charlet, Jean (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 

    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 ...
  • Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) 

    Larivière, Vincent; Pontille, David; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (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 

    Shu, Fei; Mongeon, Philippe; Haustein, Stefanie; Siler, Kyle; Alperin, Juan Pablo; Larivière, Vincent (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 

    Macaluso, Benoit; Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Thomas; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (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 

    Boutard, Guillaume (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 

    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 ...