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The decline of women’s research production during the coronavirus pandemic

This content is not available in the selected language. L’analyse de plus de 300 000 prépublications dans les derniers mois démontre une baisse de la contribution scientifique des femmes depuis le début de la COVID-19, selon une recherche en cours menée par Philippe-Vincent Lamarre, Vincent Larivière et Cassidy R. Sugimoto. La répartition inégale du travail […] Read more

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Ouvrir l’accès aux résultats de recherche

This content is not available in the selected language. Selon Vincent Larivière, l’ouverture soudaine de l’accès aux recherches sur la COVID-19 et les coronavirus par les maisons d’édition savantes est une forme d’admission que la situation normale, soit une barrière payante, est un frein à la diffusion de la connaissance scientifique. Read more

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The coronavirus outbreak highlights serious deficiencies in scholarly communication

As research and government responses to the COVID-19 outbreak escalate in the face of a global public health crisis, Vincent Larivière, Fei Shu and Cassidy R. Sugimoto reflect on efforts to make research on this subject more widely available. Arguing that a narrow focus on research published in high ranking journals predominantly in English has impeded research efforts, they […] Read more

Peer-Reviewed Articles

On the institutional and intellectual division of labor in epigenetics research: A scientometric analysis

While numerous qualitative social scientific analyses of (environmental) epigenetics have been published, we still lack a macro-level, quantitative assessment of the field of epigenetics as a whole. This article is aimed at filling this gap. Mobilizing an extended version of the Web of Science, we constituted a corpus of 199,484 documents (articles, reviews, editorial material, […] Read more

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Does the Web of Science Accurately Represent Chinese Scientific Performance?

This content is not available in the selected language. With the significant development of China’s economy and scientific activity, its scientific publication activity is experiencing a period of rapid growth. However, measuring China’s research output remains a challenge because Chinese scholars may publish their research in either international or national journals, yet no bibliometric database […] Read more