Faculté des arts et des sciences – École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information - Travaux et publications: Recent submissions
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The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus : a comparative analysis
(Springer, 2015-10-19)Bibliometric methods are used in multiple fields for a variety of purposes, namely for research evaluation. Most bibliometric analyses have in common their data sources: Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier’s Scopus. The objective ... -
Tweets as impact indicators : examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on Twitter
(2015-05-05)This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific articles deposited on the preprint repository arXiv. It discusses the implication of the presence of such bots from the perspective ... -
Estimating open access Mandate effectiveness : the MELIBEA score
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-12-23)MELIBEA is a directory of institutional open‐access policies for research output that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the “strength” of open access (OA) mandates (registered in ROARMAP). We analyzed total Web of ... -
Publish or impoverish : an investigation of the monetary reward system of science in China (1999-2016)
(Emerald, 2017)Although monetary rewards have been used for recognizing scientific achievement since the eighteenth century, it is not regarded as the major reward system in science as described by Merton (1973), in which scientists publish their works and receive ... -
Team size matters : collaboration and scientific impact since 1900
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-11-06)This paper provides the first historical analysis of the relationship between collaboration and scientific impact, using three indicators of collaboration (number of authors, number of addresses, and number of countries) and including articles published ... -
Knowledge sharing in global health research : the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature
(BMC, 2017)Background: In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia has a highly endemic potential of Ebola warning health authorities of the risk for potential outbreaks; this journal is only available by subscription. Limiting the ... -
Differences in personal and professional tweets of scholars
(Emerald, 2015-05-18)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that there were differences in the use of Twitter by professors at AAU schools. Affordance use differed between the personal and professional tweets of professors as categorized by turkers. Framing ... -
Guest editorial : social media in scholarly communication
Social media in scholarly communication
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Scientific collaboration and high-technology exchanges among BRICS and G-7 countries
(Springer, 2015-12-21)Over the last two decades, emerging countries located outside North America and Europe have reshaped the global economy. These countries are also increasing their share of the world’s scientific output. This paper analyzes the evolution of BRICS (Brazil, ... -
Costly collaborations : the impact of scientific fraud on co-authors’ careers
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-01-30)Over the last few years, several major scientific fraud cases have shocked the scientific community. The number of retractions each year has also increased tremendously, especially in the biomedical field, and scientific misconduct accounts for ...
