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  • Beyond funding : acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sciences 

    Paul-Hus, Adèle; Díaz-Faes, Adrián A.; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Desrochers, Nadine; Costas, Rodrigo; Larivière, Vincent (Public library of science, 2017-10-04)
    For the past 50 years, acknowledgments have been studied as important paratextual traces of research practices, collaboration, and infrastructure in science. Since 2008, funding acknowledgments have been indexed by Web of Science, supporting large-scale ...
  • Criminologie à portée de clic : analyse de l’usage de la revue numérique 

    Criminologie just a click away: a usage analysis of the digital journal = Criminologie al alcance de un clic : análisis del uso de la revista digital
    Cameron-Pesant, Sarah; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Jansen, Yorrick; Larivière, Vincent (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018)
    À la fin des années 1990, Criminologie est l’une des premières revues savantes québécoises à passer au format numérique. Cet article dresse un portrait de l’usage numérique de la revue, basé sur l’analyse de 858 894 téléchargements extraits des ...
  • On the topicality and research impact of special issues 

    Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Mongeon, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2019)
    The publication of special issues constitute an important yet underinvestigated phenomenon of scholarly communication. In an attempt to draw attention to the proliferation of special issues, Priem (2006) suggested that their commissioning has an ...
  • The sum of it all : revealing collaboration patterns by combining authorship and acknowledgements 

    Paul-Hus, Adèle; Mongeon, Philippe; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Larivière, Vincent (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 ...
  • Who are the acknowledgees? An analysis of gender and academic status 

    Paul-Hus, Adèle; Mongeon, Philippe; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2020-06-01)
    Acknowledgements found in scholarly papers allow for credit attribution of nonauthor contributors. As such, they are associated with a different kind of recognition than authorship. While several studies have shown that social factors affect authorship ...
  • Words by the tail : assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits 

    Bérubé, Nicolas; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Mongeon, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (Public library of science, 2018-07-09)
    This research assesses the evolution of lexical diversity in scholarly titles using a new indicator based on zipfian frequency-rank distribution tail fits. At the operational level, while both head and tail fits of zipfian word distributions are more ...