• 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 ...
  • 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 ...