Diffusion Fei Shu

Scientific and Professional Journal Articles

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Shu, F., Larivière, V. (2024). The oligopoly of open access publishing. Scientometrics, 129, 519-536. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04876-2
• Quan, W., Shu, F., Yang, M. et Larivière, V. (2023). Publish and flourish: Investigating publication requirements for PhD students in China. Scientometrics, 128(12), 6675-6693
• Chen, S., Song, Y., Shu, F. et Larivière, V. (2022). Interdisciplinarity and impact: the effects of the citation time window. Scientometrics, 127(5), 2621-2642.  DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04338-1
• Shu, F., Larivière, V., (2022). China’s evaluation reform did not change researchers’ publication practices. Minerva, 60, 329–347. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-022-09468-7
• Shu, F., Sugimoto, C.R., Larivière, V. (2021). The Institutionalized Stratification of the Chinese Higher Education System. À paraître dans Quantitative Science Studies, 2 (1), 327–334. PDF
• Shu, F., Quan, W., Chen, B., Qiu, J., Sugimoto, C. R., & Larivière, V. (2021). The role of Web of Science publications in China’s tenure system. Scientometrics. 122, 1683–1695 (2020).
• Shu, F., Julien, C.A. et Larivière, V. (2019). Does the Web of Science Accurately Represent Chinese Scientific Performance? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(10), 1138-1152.
• Shu, F., Zhang, L., Larivière, V., Julien, C.A., Zhang, J. (2019). Comparing journal and paper level classifications of science. Journal of Informetrics, 13 (1), 202-225. DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2018.12.005PDF
• Shu, F., Mongeon, P., Haustein, S., Siler, K, Alperin, J. P., & Larivière V. (2018). Is it such a big deal? On the cost of journal use in the digital era. College & Research Libraries, 79(6), 785-798. DOI 10.5860/crl.79.6.785PDFHTML
• Smith, E., Haustein, S., Mongeon, P., Shu, F., Ridde, V. & Larivière, V. (2017). Knowledge sharing in global health research; the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature. Health Research Policy and Systems, 15(73). DOI 10.1186/s12961-017-0235-3HTML
• Paul-Hus, A., Mongeon, P., Shu, F. (2016). Portraying the Landscape of Canadian Library and Information Science Research. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 40(4): 332-346.
• Shu, F., Larivière, V., Mongeon, P., Julien, C-A., & Piper, A. (2016). On the evolution of LIS doctoral dissertation topics in North America (1960-2013). Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 57(2), 131-142 

Letter to the Editor

• Shu, F., Larivière, V. (2015). Chinese-language articles are biased in citations. Journal of Informetrics. 9(3): 526-528. DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2015.05.005

Other articles

• Larivière, V., Shu, F. (2025). Dépenser 1,7 milliard pour attirer des scientifiques étrangers est une fausse bonne idée. Le Devoir, 24 novembre 2025. 

Peer reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Shu*, F., Qiu, J., Larivière, V. Mapping the Life Science using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics. September 2-5, 2019. 1927-1932. PDF
• Haustein, S., Smith, E., Mongeon, P., Shu, F., Larivière, V. (2016). Access to global health research. Prevalence and cost of gold and hybrid open access. Proceedings of the 21st international conference on science and technology indicators, Valencia, 14-16  September 2016,  410-418.
• Shu, F. & Beheshti, J. (2016). The Landscape of LIS Research and Teaching Area: iSchools versus non-iSchools in North America. Paper presented at the iConference 2016. PDF
• Shu, F., Larivière, V., Mongeon, P., Julien. C.A., & Piper, A. (2016). The Reflection of iSchool Movement on the Trend of LIS Dissertation Topics. ALISE Conference 2016, Boston, MA. PDF
• Shu, F. & Mongeon, P. (2015). Evolution of iSchool Movement (1988-2013): A Bibliometric View. Paper presented at SIG/MET Workshop, ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting, St. Louis. PDFHTML
• Mongeon, P., Paul-Hus, A., & Shu, F. (2015). Twitter activity and scientific collaboration of LIS schools and faculty members. Paper presented at SIG/MET Workshop, ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting, St. Louis.  PDF
• Shu, F. & Julien, C-A. (2014). Ontology-based Indexing Technologies in Information Retrieval: Building a Topic Map (ISO 13250) for a Mathematics Education Database. Paper presented in Canadian Association of Information Science Conference 2014 PDF
• Shu, F., & Sheepy, E. (2013). Supporting research literacy using Topic Maps: Building a mathematics education research ontology. Proceeding of the World Conference on E- Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013. Las Vegas, NV: AACE.