Adèle Paul-Hus and Nadine Desrochers (Université de Montréal), Sarah de Rijcke and Alex Rushforth (Leiden University)  guest edit the Special Issue on the Reward System of Science for Aslib Journal of Information Management. Call for Papers The Reward System of Science Special issue call for papers from Aslib Journal of Information Management This special issue, […] Read more

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) seeks comments on the draft Altmetrics Data Quality Code of Conduct developed by the NISO Working Group C (Data Quality), co-chaired by Stefanie Haustein and Greg Tananbaum (SPARC). The Code of Conduct aims to improve the quality of altmetric data by increasing the transparency of data provision and aggregation […] Read more

Vincent Larivière and Jean-Philippe Warren are guest editing a special issue of Canadian Journal of Sociology which aims to explore the roles and functions of social sciences and humanities journals in the new scholarly ecosystem. Call for papers The role of national journals in the social sciences and humanities Canadian Journal of Sociology The vast […] Read more

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

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

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

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

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