Faculté des arts et des sciences – École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information - Travaux et publications: Recent submissions
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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 institutions. A significant ... -
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, this paper analyzes three ... -
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 faculty members, and that the ... -
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 of female populations into ... -
Comparing journal and paper level classifications of science
(Elsevier, 2019-01-03)The classification of science into disciplines is at the heart of bibliometric analyses. While most classifications systems are implemented at the journal level, their accuracy has been questioned, and paper-level classifications have been considered ... -
The weakening relationship between the impact factor and papers' citations in the digital age
(Wiley, 2012-10-08)Historically, papers have been physically bound to the journal in which they were published but in the electronic age papers are available individually, no longer tied to their respective journals. Hence, papers now can be read and cited based on ... -
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 to “internationalize” its scientific ... -
Scientific publications and patenting by companies : a study of the whole population of Canadian firms over 25 years
(Oxford University Press, 2011-05-01)There is evidence in the literature that technological inventions have an increasing connection to scientific knowledge. This raises two related questions: (1) Are firms increasingly conducting scientific basic research? (2) Is being at the scientific ... -
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 volume, broad interdisciplinary ... -
Which scientific elites? : on the concentration of research funds, publications and citations
(Oxford University Press, 2010-03-01)Using the population of all university professors (N=13,479) in the province of Quebec (Canada), this paper analyses the concentration of funding, papers and citations at the level of individual researchers. It shows that each of these distributions ...