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  • Collection development in the era of big deals 

    Mongeon, Philippe; Siler, Kyle; Archambault, Antoine; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021)
    Drawing on an original methodology using citations, downloads, and survey data, this paper analyzes journal usage patterns across 28 Canadian universities. Results show that usage levels vary across disciplines and that different academic platforms ...
  • Textual analysis of artificial intelligence manuscripts reveals features associated with peer review outcome 

    Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2021-07-15)
    We analyzed a data set of scientific manuscripts that were submitted to various conferences in artificial intelligence. We performed a combination of semantic, lexical, and psycholinguistic analyses of the full text of the manuscripts and compared them ...
  • The institutionalized stratification of the Chinese higher education system 

    Shu, Fei; Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2021-04-08)
    To promote research excellence, China’s government has been offering substantial financial support for a small group of selected universities through three national research programs (Project 211, Project 985, Double First Class). However, admission ...
  • Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) 

    Larivière, Vincent; Pontille, David; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (MIT Press, 2020)
    Contributorship statements were introduced by scholarly journals in the late 1990s to provide more details on the specific contributions made by authors to research papers. After more than a decade of idiosyncratic taxonomies by journals, a partnership ...
  • Mapping the biomedical sciences using Medical Subject Headings : a comparison between MeSH coassignments and MeSH citation pairs 

    Shu, Fei; Qiu, Junping; Larivière, Vincent (Medical Library Association, 2021-07)
    Objective: This study compares two maps of biomedical sciences using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) term coassignments versus MeSH terms of citing/cited articles and reveals similarities and differences between the two approaches. Methods: MeSH terms ...
  • Improving reproducibility in machine learning research : a report from the NeurIPS 2019 reproducibility program 

    Pineau, Joelle; Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe; Sinha, Koustuv; Larivière, Vincent; Beygelzimer, Alina; d’Alché-Buc, Florence; Fox, Emily; Larochelle, Hugo (Microtome Publishing, 2021)
    One of the challenges in machine learning research is to ensure that presented and published results are sound and reliable. Reproducibility, that is obtaining similar results as presented in a paper or talk, using the same code and data (when ...
  • Uncited papers are not useless 

    Golosovsky, Michael; Larivière, Vincent (MIT Press, 2021)
    We study the citation dynamics of the papers published in three scientific disciplines (Physics, Economics, and Mathematics) and four broad scientific categories (Medical, Natural, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities). We measure the uncitedness ...
  • Do authors of research funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research comply with its open access mandate? : A meta-epidemiologic study 

    Scaffidi, Michael A.; Elsolh, Karam; Li, Juana; Verma, Yash; Bansa, Rishi; Gimpaya, Nikko; Larivière, Vincent; Khan, Rishad; Grove, Samir C. (Public Library of Science, 2021-08-24)
    Since 2008, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has mandated that studies it funds either in whole or in part are required to publish their results as open access (OA) within 12 months of publication using either online repositories and/or ...
  • The gendered nature of authorship 

    Ni, Chaoqun; Smith, Elise; Yuan, Haimiao; Larivière, Vincent; Sugimoto, Cassidy R. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021-09-01)
    Authorship is the primary form of symbolic capital in science. Despite this, authorship is rife with injustice and malpractice, with women expressing concerns regarding the fair attribution of credit. Based on an international survey, we examine ...
  • Une place pour les femmes et les enfants : l’émergence de la bibliothèque jeunesse au Québec 

    Martel, Marie D. (2021-05-06)
    Les études menées pour mettre en lumière l’héritage des femmes à la bibliothéconomie québécoise a récemment permis de révéler dans ses marges une autre trame historique : celle de l’émergence de la bibliothèque jeunesse. Cette histoire permet de redonner ...