• Authorial and institutional stratification in open access publishing : the case of global health research 

    Siler, Kyle; Haustein, Stefanie; Smith, Elise; Larivière, Vincent; Alperin, Juan Pablo (PeerJ, 2018-02-19)
    Using a database of recent articles published in the field of Global Health research, we examine institutional sources of stratification in publishing access outcomes. Traditionally, the focus on inequality in scientific publishing has focused on ...
  • Collection development in the era of big deals 

    Mongeon, Philippe; Siler, Kyle; Archambault, Antoine; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (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 ...
  • The diverse niches of megajournals : specialism within generalism 

    Siler, Kyle; Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Wiley, 2019-10-08)
    Over the past decade, megajournals have expanded in popularity and established a legitimate niche in academic publishing. Leveraging advantages of digital publishing, megajournals are characterized by large publication volume, broad interdisciplinary ...
  • 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 ...
  • Predatory publishers’ latest scam : bootlegged and rebranded papers 

    Siler, Kyle; Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (Nature research, 2021-10-26)
    To thwart publishing rackets that undermine scholars and scholarly publishing, legitimate journals should show their workings.
  • 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 ...