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Scientific publications and patenting by companies : a study of the whole population of Canadian firms over 25 years
(Oxford University Press, 2011-05-01)There is evidence in the literature that technological inventions have an increasing connection to scientific knowledge. This raises two related questions: (1) Are firms increasingly conducting scientific basic research? (2) Is being at the scientific ... -
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 ... -
Self-selected or mandated, open access increases citation impact for higher quality research
(Public library of science, 2010-10-18)Background: Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by selfarchiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on the web (‘‘Open Access’’, OA) are cited significantly more than ... -
Les sept piliers de l’économie du document
(2011-04)Préalables au cours de maîtrise en sciences de l'information sur l'économie du document. Après avoir montré l'oubli de la notion de document par les économistes, le texte insiste sur sept caractéristiques de son économie, présentées comme sept piliers ... -
Les services jeunesse des bibliothèques publiques québécoises : une prestation à plusieurs mains
(Éditions ASTED, 2023-03-29)Entre novembre 2021 et mars 2022 se tenait l’Enquête sur les services jeunesse dans les bibliothèques publiques du Québec, qui avait pour objectif inédit de brosser le portrait des services jeunesse offerts dans les bibliothèques publiques de la province, ... -
A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
(2016-09)Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for generating the citation distributions ... -
A small world of citations? : the influence of collaboration networks on citation practices
(Public library of science, 2012-03-07)This paper examines the proximity of authors to those they cite using degrees of separation in a co-author network, essentially using collaboration networks to expand on the notion of self-citations. While the proportion of direct selfcitations ... -
Social media in scholarly communication : a review of the literature and empirical analysis of Twitter use by SSHRC doctoral award recipients
(2015)This report has been commissioned by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to analyze the role that social media currently plays in scholarly communication as well as to what extent metrics derived from social media activity ... -
Special issue on bibliographic data sources
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Stability and longevity in the publication careers of U.S. doctorate recipients
(Public library of science, 2016-04-29)Since the 1950s, the number of doctorate recipients has risen dramatically in the United States. In this paper, we investigate whether the longevity of doctorate recipients’ publication careers has changed. This is achieved by matching 1951–2010 ... -
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 ... -
The state of OA : a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
(PeerJ, 2018-02-13)Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an open online ... -
A step-by-step guide for building localised versions of the MIC site. Version 1.1
(2008-07-24)This is a test version of the kit for localising the Moving Image Collections (MIC) site, designed in the context of a research project undertaken by the Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) of IFLA. -
The sum of it all : revealing collaboration patterns by combining authorship and acknowledgements
(Elsevier, 2016-12-01)Acknowledgments are one of many conventions by which researchers publicly bestow recognition towards individuals, organizations and institutions that contributed in some way to the work that led to publication. Combining data on both co-authors and ... -
Task specialization across research careers
(eLife Sciences Publications, 2020-10-28)Research careers are typically envisioned as a single path in which a scientist starts as a member of a team working under the guidance of one or more experienced scientists and, if they are successful, ends with the individual leading their own research ... -
Team size matters : collaboration and scientific impact since 1900
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-11-06)This paper provides the first historical analysis of the relationship between collaboration and scientific impact, using three indicators of collaboration (number of authors, number of addresses, and number of countries) and including articles published ... -
Ten-year analysis of University of Minho Green OA self-archiving mandate
(2013)University of Minho adopted the first university-wide Green Open Access Man-date in Europe in 2004, requiring all research output to be self-archived in the institution’s repository. The mandate was upgraded in 2011 to designate the repository ... -
Text Summarization by Sentence Extraction and Syntactic Pruning
(2005-08)Nous présentons une méthode hybride pour le résumé de texte, en combinant l'extraction de phrases et l'élagage syntaxique des phrases extraites. L'élagage syntaxique est effectué sur la base d’une analyse complète des phrases selon un parseur de ... -
Textual analysis of artificial intelligence manuscripts reveals features associated with peer review outcome
(MIT Press, 2021-07-15)We analyzed a data set of scientific manuscripts that were submitted to various conferences in artificial intelligence. We performed a combination of semantic, lexical, and psycholinguistic analyses of the full text of the manuscripts and compared them ... -
A theoretical foundation for the ethical distribution of authorship in multidisciplinary publications
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)In academia, authorship on publications confers merit as well as responsibility. The respective disciplines adhere to their “typical” authorship practices: individuals may be named in alphabetical order (e.g., in economics, mathematics), ranked in ...
