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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 ...
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 ...
The effects of aging on researchers’ publication and citation patterns
(Public library of science, 2008-03-29)
The average age at which U.S. researchers receive their first grant from NIH has increased from 34.3 in 1970, to 41.7 in 2004.
These data raise the crucial question of the effects of aging on the scientific productivity ...
A Document Browsing Tool Based on Book Indexes
(2004-08)
This research project is a contribution to the global field of information retrieval, specifically, to develop tools to enable information access in digital documents. We recognize the need to provide the user with flexible ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
Text Summarization by Sentence Extraction and Syntactic Pruning
(2005-08)
Nous présentons une méthode hybride pour le résumé de texte, en combinant l'extraction de phrases et l'élagage syntaxique des phrases extraites. L'élagage syntaxique est effectué sur la base d’une analyse complète des ...