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Comparing bibliometric statistics obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus
(Association for information science and technology, 2009-04-13)
For more than 40 years, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, now part of Thomson Reuters) produced the only available bibliographic databases from which bibliometricians could compile large‐scale bibliometric ...
On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact
(Association for information science and technology, 2009-12-09)
This article analyzes the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual articles. Using all the articles published in Web of Science in 2000, we define the degree of interdisciplinarity of a given ...
The production of knowledge in Canada : consolidation and diversification
(University of Toronto Press, 2002)
The Canadian innovation system is composed of four main sectors: university,
hospital, government, and industry. This paper analyzes each sector’s strengths
and weaknesses in terms of its scientific production. It is ...
Are elite journals declining?
(Association for information science and technology, 2013-11-19)
Previous research indicates that during the past 20years, the highest-quality work has been published in anincreasingly diverse and larger group of journals. In thisarticle, we examine whether this diversification has ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Changes in publication languages and citation practices and their effect on the scientific impact of Russian science (1993–2010)
(Wiley, 2012-03-28)
This paper analyses the effects of publication language on international scientific visibility of Russia
using the Web of Science. Like other developing and transition countries, it is subject to a growing pressure ...
Cinq bibliothèques de Montréal dans la société du savoir : une nouvelle génération de tiers lieux
Five Montréal-area libraries are part of the knowledge society : a new generation of third spacesCinco bibliotecas de Montreal en la sociedad del saber : una nueva generación del tercer espacio
(Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation, 2014)
Cet article présente la première génération de bibliothèques publiques
issues du Programme d’agrandissement, de rénovation et de
construction (RAC) de la Ville de Montréal. Les conditions visant la
réussite de la ...
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 ...