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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 ... -
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 ...
