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The coronavirus outbreak highlights serious deficiencies in scholarly communication

March 10 2020 Cassidy R. Sugimoto / Fei Shu / Vincent Larivière

As research and government responses to the COVID-19 outbreak escalate in the face of a global public health crisis, Vincent Larivière, Fei Shu and Cassidy R. Sugimoto reflect on efforts to make research on this subject more widely available. Arguing that a narrow focus on research published in high ranking journals predominantly in English has impeded research efforts, they […] Read more

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Coronavirus et édition savante : une question de transmission

February 13 2020 Cassidy R. Sugimoto / Fei Shu / Vincent Larivière

This content is not available in the selected language. Les controverses scientifiques révèlent souvent les normes cachées du système scientifique, rendant explicites des pratiques implicitement acceptées au sein de la communauté scientifique. L’épidémie actuelle du coronavirus (2019-nCOV) révèle, quant à elle, deux vices du système de l’édition savante : les résultats de la recherche demeurent souvent […] Read more

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The end of gender disparities in science? If only it were true…

March 27 2017 Cassidy R. Sugimoto / Vincent Larivière

This content is not available in the selected language. Gender, again? There has been a resurgence of interest in the last few years regarding gender disparities and bias in science. Recent research has examined, inter alia, lower rates of participation of women in the scientific workforce, the lower rates of female production of scientific work, […] Read more