Sociology of Science

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Are groundbreaking science discoveries becoming harder to find? Researchers are arguing over whether “disruptive” or “novel” science is waning – and how to remedy the problem.

This content is not available in the selected language. From 1996 to 2023, looking at broad, global-level data, the number of papers per researcher roughly doubled, calculates Vincent Larivière, an information scientist at the University of Montreal in Canada. Read more

Peer reviewed Conference Proceedings

On the impact of geo-contextualized and local research in the global North and South

This content is not available in the selected language. Building on the preliminary findings presented here, this work will be developed further by including additional cleaning of location names to improve country assignation. Further analysis of the results by specific country, discipline, and evolution over time, will allow a deeper understanding of the extent to […] Read more

Peer-Reviewed Articles

A global perspective on social stratification in science

This content is not available in the selected language. To study stratification among scientists, we reconstruct the career-long trajectories of 8.2 million scientists worldwide using 12 bibliometric measures of productivity, geographical mobility, collaboration, and research impact. While most previous studies examined these variables in isolation, we study their relationships using Multiple Correspondence and Cluster Analysis. […] Read more

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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

Magazine

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

News Events

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