Diffusion Rodrigo Costas

Scientific and Professional Journal Articles

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Robinson-Garcia, N., Costas, R., Sugimoto, C.R., Larivière, V., Nane, T. (2020). Task specialization and its effects on research careers. eLife. 2020;9:e60586.
• Robinson-Garcia, N., Sugimoto, C.R., Murray, D., Yegros-Yegros, A., Larivière, V., Costas. R. (2018). The many faces of mobility: Using bibliometric data to track scientific exchanges. Journal of Informetrics, 13(1), 50-63. arXiv:1803.03449PDF
• Robinson-Garcia, N., Sugimoto, C.R., Murray, D., Yegros-Yegros, A., Larivière, V., Costas, R. (2018). Scientific mobility indicators in practice: International mobility profiles at the country level. El profesional de la información, 27(3), 511-520. DOI 10.3145/epi.2018.may.05arXiv:1806.07815PDF
• Desrochers, N., Paul-Hus, A., Haustein, S., Costas, R., Mongeon, P., Quan-Haase, A., Bowman, T.D., Pecoskie, J., Tsou, A., Larivière, V. (2018). Authorship, citations, acknowledgments and visibility in social media: Symbolic capital in the multifaceted reward system of science. Social Science Information, 57(2): 223–248. DOI 10.1177/0539018417752089PDF
• Robinson-Garcia, N., Mongeon, P., Jeng, W. & Costas, R. (2017). DataCite as a novel bibliometric source: Coverage, strengths and limitations. Journal of Informetrics, 11(3), 841-854.  DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2017.07.003PDF
• Mongeon, P., Robinson-Garcia, N., Jeng, W. & Costas, R. (2017). Incorporating data sharing to the reward system of science: Linking DataCite records to authors in the Web of Science. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(5), 545-556. DOI 10.1108/AJIM-01-2017-0024PDF
• Paul-Hus, A., Diaz-Faes, A.A., Sainte-Marie, M., Desrochers, N., Costas, R., Larivière, V. 2017. Beyond funding: Acknowledgement patterns in biomedical, natural and social sciences. PLoSONE 12(10): e0185578. PDFHTML
• Nane, G.F., Larivière, V., Costas, R. (2017). Predicting the age of researchers using bibliometric data. Journal of Informetrics 11 (3), 713-729 DOI 10.1016/j.joi.2017.05.002
• Paul-Hus, A., Desrochers, N. & Costas, R. (2016). Characterization, description, and considerations for the use of funding acknowledgement data in Web of Science. Scientometrics. DOI 10.1007/s11192-016-1953-yarXiv:http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04780
• Fanelli, D., Costas, R., Larivière, V. (2015).Misconduct policies, career stage and peer control, not gender or pressures to publish, predict flawed research. PLOS ONE, 10(6): e0127556.  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0127556
• Haustein, S., Costas, R., Larivière, V. (2015).Characterizing social media metrics of scholarly papers: the effect of document properties and collaboration patterns. PLOS ONE 10(3): e0120495. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0120495

Peer reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Desrochers, N., Paul-Hus, A., Bowman, T.D., Costas, R., Haustein, S., Larivière, V., Mongeon, P., Pecoskie, J., Quan-Haase, A., & Tsou, A. (2015). Authorship, Patents, Citations, Acknowledgments,  Tweets, Reader Counts and  the Multifaceted Reward System of Science. Paper presented at the ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting, St. Louis. PDF
• Haustein, S. & Costas, R. (2015). Identifying Twitter audiences: who is tweeting about scientific papers? Paper presented at SIG/MET Workshop, ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting, St. Louis. PDF
• Costas, R., Nane, T., Larivière, V. (2015). Is the year of first publication a good proxy of scholars’ academic age? Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, pp. 988-998. [article] PDF
• Larivière, V., Costas, R. (2015). How many is too many? On the relationship between output and impact in research. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, pp. 590-595. PDF
• Haustein, S., Bowman, T. D., & Costas, R. (2015). ‘communities of attention’ around scientific publications: Who is tweeting about scientific papers? Paper presented at Social Media & Society 2015 International Conference, Toronto, Canada 
• Haustein, S., Bowman, T.D. & Costas,. (2015). When is an article actually published? An analysis of online availability, publication, and indexation dates, in Proceedings of the 15th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (pp. 1170–1179). Istanbul, Turkey. arXiv:1505.00796PDF
• Fanelli, D., Costas, R., Larivière, V. (2015). What “causes” scientific misconduct? Testing major hypotheses by comparing corrected and retracted papers. Accepté pour 4th World Conference on Scientific Integrity. Rio de Janeiro, Brésil [abstract].
• Costas, R., Haustein, S., Larivière, V. (2014). The heterogeneity of social media metrics and its effects on statistics. Nordic Workshop on Bibliometrics and Research Policy.