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Dossier spécial – Des revues scientifiques en guise de béquille

This content is not available in the selected language. Quatre experts dont Vincent Larivière, soulignent la prolifération des « revues prédatrices » dans le domaine de la santé. Une entreprise canadienne qui vend des timbres dermatologiques censés guérir de nombreux maux, appuie ses prétentions sur deux études cliniques louangeant leur « potentiel incroyable » publiées dans des revues prétendument […] Read more

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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

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The Howard-Harvard effect: Institutional reproduction of intersectional inequalities

This content is not available in the selected language. The production of research and faculty in the US higher education system is concentrated within a few institutions. Concentration of research and resources affects minoritized scholars and the topics with which they are disproportionately associated. This paper examines topical alignment between institutions and authors of varying […] Read more

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Understanding super-partnerships in scientific collaboration: Evidence from the field of economics

This content is not available in the selected language. Super-partnerships exist between scholars connected within densely-knit collaboration networks. Understanding how such relationships affect scholars’ careers is of great importance. In this paper, focusing on the longitudinal aspects of scientific collaboration, we analyze collaboration profiles from the egocentric perspective and use analytic extreme value thresholds to […] Read more

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Examining the quality of the corresponding authorship field in Web of Science and Scopus

This content is not available in the selected language. Authorship is associated with scientific capital and prestige, and corresponding authorship is used in evaluation as a proxy for scientific status. However, there are no empirical analyses on the validity of the corresponding authorship metadata in bibliometric databases. This paper looks at differences in the corresponding […] Read more

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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