2015
News
Appel de textes: Les revues savantes de langue française en sciences humaines et sociales
Vincent Larivière et Jean-Philippe Warren dirigent un numéro spécial de Recherches sociographiques ayant pour thème les revues savantes de langue française en sciences humaines et sociales: les défis d'un environnement nouveau. Au cours des dernières décennies, les revues savantes ont consolidé leur rôle en tant que mode de diffusion principal des connaissances dans le champ […] Read more
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"The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era" in the Top 100 of the most shared and discussed papers of 2015
December 14 2015 Philippe Mongeon / Stefanie Haustein / Vincent Larivière
The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era published by Vincent Larivière, Stefanie Haustein and Philippe Mongeon last June in PLOS ONE, is one of the most discussed and shared papers of 2015. The article generated many reactions in the media since its publication, as its position in the Altmetric Top 100 reveals. Results […] Read more
Events
iConference 2016
crctcs December 9 2015 Fei Shu
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ALISE 2016 Conference
crctcs December 8 2015 Fei Shu
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Patents in academia: women's filings have risen fastest
December 8 2015 Vincent Larivière
Analyzing more than 4.6 millions patents issued between 1976 and 2013, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Chaoqun Ni, Jevin West et Vincent Larivière show, in a paper published in PLOS ONE, that women are patenting at higher rates in academia compared to industry, government and individuals. Sugimoto, C.R., Ni, C., West, J.D., Larivière, V. (2015). The academic advantage: gender […] Read more
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Interdisciplinarity and Scientific Impact
December 8 2015 Clément Arsenault / Shiji Chen / Vincent Larivière
In a recent article published in Journal of Informetrics, Shiji Chen, Clément Arsenault et Vincent Larivière investigate the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact, by analyzing the level of interdisciplinarityof the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks. Results show that the top 1% most cited papers exhibit higher […] Read more
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Five companies control more than half of academic publishing
December 8 2015 Philippe Mongeon / Stefanie Haustein / Vincent Larivière
In a study published in PLOS ONE, Vincent Larivière, Stefanie Haustein and Philippe Mongeon show that the market share of the five largest academic publishers increased from 20% in 1973 to 50% in 2006. Vincent Larivière explains that while it is true that publishers have historically played a vital role in the dissemination of scientific […] Read more
Events
FORCE2016 Conference
Stefanie Haustein December 8 2015 Stefanie Haustein
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Multimedias
Nouvelles formes d’édition
November 26 2015 Vincent Larivière
This content is not available in the selected language. NOUVELLES FORMES D’EDITION Limite des formes « classiques » de publication ; accompagnement institutionnel vers l’accès libre ; enjeux et ambitions Présidente de séance : Françoise Thibault, Déléguée générale Alliance Athena déroulement 14h Introduction de la demi-journée par la présidente de séance 14h15 Vincent Larivière, Professeur agrégé à l’École de bibliothéconomie […] Read more
Multimedias
Nouvelle génération d’indicateurs de l’impact de la recherche
November 20 2015 Vincent Larivière
This content is not available in the selected language. Vincent Larivière, professeur à l’Université de Montréal, expose les nouvelles tendances et les impacts des médias sociaux sur les publications scientifiques. Read more