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Astrophysicists’ conversational connections on Twitter
(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 ...
The effect of university–industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications : the Canadian case, 1980–2005
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Previous research on university-industry collaboration in Canada concluded, using mean impact
factors as a proxy, that the scientific impact of such research is not inferior to that of university
research. Using ...
Which scientific elites? : on the concentration of research funds, publications and citations
(Oxford University Press, 2010-03-01)
Using the population of all university professors (N=13,479) in the province of Quebec
(Canada), this paper analyses the concentration of funding, papers and citations at the level of
individual researchers. It shows ...
Archives et création : nouvelles perspectives sur l’archivistique. Cahier 2
(2015-09)
Ce cahier de recherche fait état des travaux menés au cours de la deuxième étape (2014-2015) du projet « Archives et création : nouvelles perspectives sur l’archivistique ». Les textes sont les suivants : Yvon Lemay et ...
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% ...
Predicting the age of researchers using bibliometric data
(Elsevier, 2017-08)
The age of researchers is a critical factor necessary to study the bibliometric characteristics of the
scholars that produce new knowledge. In bibliometric studies, the age of scientific authors is
generally missing; ...
Review of contemporary sound installation practices in Québec
(University of California Press, 2022-06-01)
Continuing a trend of publications investigating sound art within a specific geographical
context, this paper proposes an original view of the sound installation practice in Que´bec. This study is
part of a research ...
The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007
(Association for information science and technology, 2009-01-29)
This article challenges recent research (Evans, 2008)
reporting that the concentration of cited scientific literature increases with the online availability of articles
and journals. Using Thomson Reuters’ Web of ...
Big publishers, bigger profits : how the scholarly community lost the control of its journals
(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 ...
The impact factor’s Matthew Effect : a natural experiment in bibliometrics
(Association for information science and technology, 2009-10-08)
Since the publication of Robert K. Merton’s theory of
cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence
at the level of papers, individual researchers, ...