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Authorial and institutional stratification in open access publishing : the case of global health research
(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 ...
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 ...
The role of handbooks in knowledge creation and diffusion : a case of science and technology studies
(Elsevier, 2014-07-09)
Genre is considered to be an important element in scholarly communication and in the practice of
scientific disciplines. However, scientometric studies have typically focused on a single genre, the journal
article. The ...
PhD students’ excellence scholarships and their relationship with research productivity, scientific impact, and degree completion
(Canadian society for the study of higher education, 2013-08-31)
This paper examines the relationship between excellence scholarships and research productivity,
scientific impact, and degree completion. Drawing on the entire population of doctoral students
in the province of Québec, ...
Tweets as impact indicators : examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on Twitter
(2015-05-05)
This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific articles deposited on the preprint repository arXiv. It discusses the implication of the presence of ...
Costly collaborations : the impact of scientific fraud on co-authors’ careers
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-01-30)
Over the last few years, several major scientific fraud cases have shocked the scientific
community. The number of retractions each year has also increased tremendously, especially in
the biomedical field, and scientific ...
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics : a review of the literature
(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 ...
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 ...
Relationships between interlibrary loan and research activity in Canada
(Association of college and research libraries, 2014)
Interlibrary Loan borrowing rates in academic libraries are influenced by an array of factors. This article explores the relationship between interlibrary loan borrowing activity and research activity at 42 Canadian academic ...
Words by the tail : assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits
(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 ...