Browsing Faculté des arts et des sciences – École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information - Travaux et publications by Author "Sugimoto, Cassidy R."
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The academic advantage : gender disparities in patenting
(Public library of science, 2015-05-27)We analyzed gender disparities in patenting by country, technological area, and type of assignee using the 4.6 million utility patents issued between 1976 and 2013 by the United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO). Our analyses of fractionalized ... -
Age stratification and cohort effects in scholarly communication : a study of social sciences
(Springer, 2016-07-29)Aging is considered to be an important factor in a scholar’s propensity to innovate, produce, and collaborate on high quality work. Yet, empirical studies in the area are rare and plagued with several limitations. As a result, we lack clear evidence ... -
The angle sum theory : exploring the literature on acknowledgments in scholarly communication
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2016-02-22) -
arXiv E‐prints and the journal of record : an analysis of roles and relationships
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-01-27)Since its creation in 1991, arXiv has become central to the diffusion of research in a number of fields. Combining data from the entirety of arXiv and the Web of Science (WoS), this article investigates (a) the proportion of papers across all disciplines ... -
Collection development in the era of big deals
(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 ... -
A community of curious souls : an analysis of commenting behavior on TED talks videos
(Public library of science, 2014-04-09)The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks website hosts video recordings of various experts, celebrities, academics, and others who discuss their topics of expertise. Funded by advertising and members but provided free online, TED Talks have ... -
Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production
(SAGE, 2016-06-21)Scientific authorship has been increasingly complemented with contributorship statements. While such statements are said to ensure more equitable credit and responsibility attribution, they also provide an opportunity to examine the roles and functions ... -
The diverse niches of megajournals : specialism within generalism
(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 ... -
Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services
(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 ... -
The effect of data sources on the measurement of open access : a comparison of Dimensions and the Web of Science
(Public Library of Science, 2022-03-31)With the growing number of open access (OA) mandates, the accurate measurement of OA publishing is an important policy issue. Existing studies have provided estimates of the prevalence of OA publications ranging from 27.9% to 53.7%, depending on the ... -
Exploring the personal and professional factors associated with student evaluations of tenure-track faculty
(Public Library of Science, 2020-06-03)Tenure-track faculty members in the United States are evaluated on their performance in both research and teaching. In spite of accusations of bias and invalidity, student evaluations of teaching have dominated teaching evaluation at U.S. universities. ... -
Factors affecting sex-related reporting in medical research : a cross-disciplinary bibliometric analysis
(Elsevier, 2019-02-15)Background Clinical and preclinical studies have shown that there are sex-based differences at the genetic, cellular, biochemical, and physiological levels. Despite this, numerous studies have shown poor levels of inclusion of female populations into ... -
Follow the leader : on the relationship between leadership and scholarly impact in international collaborations
(Public library of science, 2019-06-20)National contributions to science are influenced by a number of factors, including economic capacity, national scientific priorities, science policy, and institutional settings and cultures. Nations do not have equal opportunities to access the global ... -
The gendered nature of authorship
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021-09-01)Authorship is the primary form of symbolic capital in science. Despite this, authorship is rife with injustice and malpractice, with women expressing concerns regarding the fair attribution of credit. Based on an international survey, we examine ... -
Guest editorial : social media in scholarly communication
Social media in scholarly communication
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In their own image? : a comparison of doctoral students' and faculty members' referencing behavior
(Wiley, 2013-03-11)This article compares doctoral students' and faculty members' referencing behavior through the analysis of a large corpus of scientific articles. It shows that doctoral students tend to cite more documents per article than faculty members, and that the ... -
The institutionalized stratification of the Chinese higher education system
(MIT Press, 2021-04-08)To promote research excellence, China’s government has been offering substantial financial support for a small group of selected universities through three national research programs (Project 211, Project 985, Double First Class). However, admission ... -
Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)
(MIT Press, 2020)Contributorship statements were introduced by scholarly journals in the late 1990s to provide more details on the specific contributions made by authors to research papers. After more than a decade of idiosyncratic taxonomies by journals, a partnership ... -
Is science built on the shoulders of women? : a study of gender differences in contributorship
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2016-08)Purpose: Women remain underrepresented in the production of scientific literature and relatively little is known regarding the labor roles played by women in the production of knowledge. This research examines these labor roles, using contributorship ... -
The linguistic patterns and rhetorical structure of citation context : an approach using n-grams
(Springer, 2016)Using the full-text corpus of more than 75,000 research articles published by seven PLOS journals, this paper proposes a natural language processing approach for identifying the function of citations. Citation contexts are assigned based on the ...
