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Langues de diffusion des connaissances : quelle place reste-t-il pour le français?

This content is not available in the selected language. La croissance des évaluations basées sur le nombre de publications savantes dans bon nombre de pays1 , jumelée à la démocratisation des technologies numériques et au contrôle de l’édition savante par quelques compagnies privées2 , est associée à l’établissement d’une culture de la publication où les […] Read more

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Mettre en récit la circulation des documents savants sur Twitter: Étude de cas exploratoire sur l’article « Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents » (Kerr et al., 2015)

This content is not available in the selected language. Les récentes études sur l’évaluation de l’impact social et l’attention envers la recherche sur les médias sociaux montrent la nécessité de changer le focus sur la signification des métriques pour s’intéresser aux contextes de circulation de la recherche. Cette étude s’inscrit dans une démarche exploratoire afin […] Read more

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Predicting research productivity in stem faculty: The role of self-determined motivation.

This content is not available in the selected language. How are university faculty members in STEM disciplines motivated to conduct research, and how does motivation predict their success? The current study assessed how multiple types of self-determined motivation predict research productivity in a sample of 651 faculty from 10 US institutions. Using structural equation modeling, […] Read more

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Varieties of diffusion in academic publishing: How status and legitimacy influence growth trajectories of new innovations

This content is not available in the selected language. Open Access (OA) publishing has progressed from an initial fringe idea to a still-growing, major component of modern academic communication. The proliferation of OA publishing presents a context to examine how new innovations and institutions develop. Based on analyses of 1,296,304 articles published in 83 OA […] Read more

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The decrease in uncited articles and its effect on the concentration of citations

This content is not available in the selected language. Empirical evidence demonstrates that citations received by scholarly publications follow a pattern of preferential attachment, resulting in a power-law distribution. Such asymmetry has sparked significant debate regarding the use of citations for research evaluation. However, a consensus has yet to be established concerning the historical trends […] Read more

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Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals

This content is not available in the selected language. Women are particularly underrepresented in journals of the highest scientific impact, with substantial consequences for their careers. While a large body of research has focused on the outcome and the process of peer review, fewer articles have explicitly focused on gendered submission behavior and the explanations […] Read more

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On the lack of women researchers in the Middle East and North Africa

This content is not available in the selected language. Recent gender policies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have improved legal equality for women with noticeable effects in some countries. The implications of these policies on science, however, are not well-understood. This study applies a bibliometric lens to describe the landscape of […] Read more

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Research mobility to the united states: A bibliometric analysis.

This content is not available in the selected language. This paper provides a global picture of the research mobility to the United States between 2010 and 2020 with the aim of determining whether the election of Trump acted as an influential factor on this mobility. The United States has historically been a central destination for […] Read more

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La plateforme de diffusion de contenu scientifique francophone Érudit fête ses 25 ans

This content is not available in the selected language. La plateforme Érudit, dont Vincent Larivière est directeur scientifique a fêté en 2023 ses 25 ans.  D’abord projet pilote et pionnière dans son domaine, Érudit est devenu incontournable dans le paysage de la recherche au Canada. L’équipe derrière le projet a fait de la découvrabilité du […] Read more