The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era published by Vincent Larivière, Stefanie Haustein and Philippe Mongeon last June in PLOS ONE, is one of the most discussed and shared papers of 2015. The article generated many reactions in the media since its publication, as its position in the Altmetric Top 100 reveals. Results […] Read more

Analyzing more than 4.6 millions patents issued between 1976 and 2013, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Chaoqun Ni, Jevin West et Vincent Larivière show, in a paper published in PLOS ONE, that women are patenting at higher rates in academia compared to industry, government and individuals. Sugimoto, C.R., Ni, C., West, J.D., Larivière, V.  (2015). The academic advantage: gender […] Read more

In a recent article published in Journal of Informetrics, Shiji Chen, Clément Arsenault et Vincent Larivière investigate the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact, by analyzing the level of interdisciplinarityof the top 1% most highly cited papers and of papers with lower citation percentile ranks. Results show that the top 1% most cited papers exhibit higher […] Read more

In a study published in PLOS ONE, Vincent Larivière, Stefanie Haustein and Philippe Mongeon show that the market share of the five largest academic publishers increased from 20% in 1973 to 50% in 2006. Vincent Larivière explains that while it is true that publishers have historically played a vital role in the dissemination of scientific […] Read more