Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information - Travaux et publications by Author "Haustein, Stefanie"
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Astrophysicists on Twitter : an in-depth analysis of tweeting and scientific publication behavior
Haustein, Stefanie; Bowman, Timothy D.; Holmberg, Kim; Peters, Isabella; Larivière, Vincent (Emerald, 2014-05-19)Purpose – This paper analyzes the tweeting behavior of 37 astrophysicists on Twitter and compares their tweeting behavior with their publication behavior and citation impact to show whether they tweet research-related topics or not. Design/methodo ... -
Astrophysicists’ conversational connections on Twitter
Holmberg, Kim; Bowman, Timothy D.; Haustein, Stefanie; Peters, Isabella (Public Library of Science, 2014-08-25)Because Twitter and other social media are increasingly used for analyses based on altmetrics, this research sought to understand what contexts, affordance use, and social activities influence the tweeting behavior of astrophysicists. Thus, the presented ... -
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 ... -
Authorship, citations, acknowledgments and visibility in social media : symbolic capital in the multifaceted reward system of science
Desrochers, Nadine; Paul-Hus, Adèle; Haustein, Stefanie; Rodrigo, Costas; Mongeon, Philippe; Quan-Haase, Anabel; Bowman, Timothy D.; Pecoskie, Jen; Tsou, Andrew; Larivière, Vincent (SAGE, 2018-02-01)The reward system of science is undergoing significant changes, as traditional indicators compete with initiatives that offer novel means of disseminating and assessing scholarly impact. This paper considers a number of aspects of this reward system, ... -
Big publishers, bigger profits : how the scholarly community lost the control of its journals
Larivière, Vincent; Haustein, Stefanie; Mongeon, Philippe (Carleton University. Department of English language and literature, 2015)Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. While most journals in the print era were owned by academic institutions and scientific societies, ... -
Characterizing social media metrics of scholarly papers : the effect of document properties and collaboration patterns
Haustein, Stefanie; Costas, Rodrigo; Larivière, Vincent (Public library of science, 2015-03-17)A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research impact. Despite their current popularity, there is a lack of information regarding the ... -
A climate of sharing : Who are the users engaging with climate research on Twitter?
Toupin, Rémi; Haustein, Stefanie (2018) -
Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services
Thelwall, Mike; Haustein, Stefanie; Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Public library of science, 2013-05-28)Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics are valid proxies of either ... -
Grand challenges in altmetrics : heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies
Haustein, Stefanie (Springer, 2016-03-14)With increasing uptake among researchers, social media are finding their way into scholarly communication and, under the umbrella term altmetrics, are starting to be utilized in research evaluation. Fueled by technological possibilities and an ... -
Guest editorial : social media in scholarly communication
Social media in scholarly communication
Haustein, Stefanie; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (Emerald, 2015-05-18) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The oligopoly’s shift to open access : how the big five academic publishers profit from article processing charges
Butler, Leigh-Ann; Matthias, Lisa; Simard, Marc-André; Mongeon, Philippe; Haustein, Stefanie (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 ... -
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics : a review of the literature
Work, Samantha; Larivière, Vincent; Haustein, Stefanie; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (Wiley, 2017-09)Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental ways: principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the promotion of new indicators on the basis of interactions with these ... -
Social media in scholarly communication : a review of the literature and empirical analysis of Twitter use by SSHRC doctoral award recipients
Work, Samantha; Haustein, Stefanie; Bowman, Timothy D.; Larivière, Vincent (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 ... -
The state of OA : a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
Piwowar, Heather; Priem, Jason; Larivière, Vincent; Alperin, Juan Pablo; Matthias, Lisa; Norlander, Bree; Farley, Ashley; West, Jevin; Haustein, Stefanie (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 ...