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  • The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007 

    Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves; Archambault, Éric (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 Science, the present article analyses ...
  • Les paradigmes de la revue Criminologie : auteurs, revues et disciplines qui ont marqué son histoire 

    Paradigms from Criminologie: Authors, journals, and disciplines that shaped its history = Los paradigmas de la revista Criminologie: Autores, revistas y disciplinas que marcaron su historia
    Leclerc, Chloé; Ream, Fyscillia; Décary-Hétu, David; Macaluso, Benoit; Larivière, Vincent (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018)
    Cet article vise à décrire les influences intellectuelles de la revue Criminologie. Pour ce faire, les 19 813 références faites par les articles publiés dans la revue Criminologie au cours des 40 dernières années sont analysées de manière à ...
  • The impact factor’s Matthew Effect : a natural experiment in bibliometrics 

    Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves (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, institutions, or countries. However, ...
  • Criminologie à portée de clic : analyse de l’usage de la revue numérique 

    Criminologie just a click away: a usage analysis of the digital journal = Criminologie al alcance de un clic : análisis del uso de la revista digital
    Cameron-Pesant, Sarah; Sainte-Marie, Maxime; Jansen, Yorrick; Larivière, Vincent (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018)
    À la fin des années 1990, Criminologie est l’une des premières revues savantes québécoises à passer au format numérique. Cet article dresse un portrait de l’usage numérique de la revue, basé sur l’analyse de 858 894 téléchargements extraits des ...
  • arXiv E‐prints and the journal of record : an analysis of roles and relationships 

    Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Macaluso, Benoit; Milojević, Staša; Cronin, Blaise; Thelwall, Mike (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 of papers across all disciplines ...
  • Tweeting biomedicine : an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature 

    Haustein, Stefanie; Peters, Isabella; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Thelwall, Mike; Larivière, Vincent (Association for information science and technology, 2013-11-26)
    Data collected by social media platforms have been introduced as new sources for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to traditional citation analysis. Data generated from social media activities ...
  • L’astrophysique au Québec depuis 1945 : émergence et consolidation d’une communauté scientifique périphérique 

    Larivière, Vincent (CSTHA/AHSTC, 2009-09-30)
    Cet article étudie l’émergence et la consolidation des activités de recherche en astrophysique dans les universités québécoises. Deux étapes marquent son développement. Premièrement, on constate l’émergence de certaines activités de recherche. À ...
  • Scientific mobility indicators in practice : international mobility profiles at the country level 

    Indicadores de movilidad científica en acción : Perfiles de movilidad internacional a nivel de país
    Robinson-Garcia, Nicolás; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Murray, Dakota; Yegros-Yegros, Alfredo; Larivière, Vincent; Costas, Rodrigo (2018)
    This paper presents and describes the methodological opportunities offered by bibliometric data to produce indicators of scientific mobility. Large bibliographic datasets of disambiguated authors and their affiliations allow for the possibility of ...
  • Are elite journals declining? 

    Larivière, Vincent; Lozano, George A.; Gingras, Yves (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 alsoaffected the handful of elite ...
  • The many faces of mobility : using bibliometric data to measure the movement of scientists 

    Robinson-Garcia, Nicolás; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Murray, Dakota; Yegros-Yegros, Alfredo; Larivière, Vincent; Costas, Rodrigo (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 2008–2015 period. Based ...