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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 ...
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 ...
Le français, langue seconde? : de l’évolution des lieux et langues de publication des chercheurs québécois, français, et allemands
(Université Laval. Département de sociologie, 2019-04-18)
Depuis la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale, la diffusion des connaissances dans les disciplines des sciences
naturelles et médicales est dominée par l’anglais. Toutefois, dans les sciences sociales et humaines, on ...
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% ...
Modeling a century of citation distributions
(Elsevier, 2009-05-06)
The prevalence of uncited papers or of highly cited papers, with respect to the bulk of publications, provides important clues as to the dynamics of scientific research. Using 25 million papers and 600 million references ...
The many faces of mobility : using bibliometric data to measure the movement of scientists
(Elsevier, 2019-03-01)
This paper presents a methodological framework for developing scientific mobility indicators based on bibliometric data. We identify nearly 16 million individual authors from publications covered in the Web of Science for ...
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 ...
On the shoulders of students? The contribution of PhD students to the advancement of knowledge
(Springer, 2011-09-06)
Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000–2007 period, this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort. It shows that PhD students ...
The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus : a comparative analysis
(Springer, 2015-10-19)
Bibliometric methods are used in multiple fields for a variety of purposes,
namely for research evaluation. Most bibliometric analyses have in common their data
sources: Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier’s ...
Characterization, description, and considerations for the use of funding acknowledgement data in Web of Science
(Springer, 2016-04-22)
Funding acknowledgements found in scientific publications have been used to study the impact of funding on research since the 1970s. However, no broad scale indexation of that paratextual element was done until 2008, when ...