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L’ouverture des résultats de recherche, une question de santé publique
This content is not available in the selected language. Dans cette entrevue détaillant son texte paru dans La Presse, Vincent Larivière revient sur sur les mécanismes empêchant la libre circulation des connaissances et les conséquences de ces entraves pour la société. Read more
Trois questions antivirales à Vincent Larivière
This content is not available in the selected language. Vincent Larivière et ses collaborateurs ont analysé la transmission des connaissances sur le Covid-19. Dans cette courte entrevue avec The Meta News, Larivière dénonce les dysfonctionnements du système de publication. Read more
In the Race to Crack Covid-19, Scientists Bypass Peer Review
This content is not available in the selected language. La prépublication, en vogue depuis une vingtaine d’années, permet de publier des résultats préliminaires avant l’examen par les pairs. Utile pendant les crises comme la COVID-19, ce phénomène a toutefois ses limites, comme l’explique Vincent Larivière. Read more
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
Opening science: The rebirth of a scholarly journal
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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
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
The citation advantage of foreign language references for Chinese social science papers
This content is not available in the selected language. Contemporary scientific exchanges are international, yet language continues to be a persistent barrier to scientific communication, particularly for non-native English-speaking scholars. Since the ability to absorb knowledge has a strong impact on how researchers create new scientific knowledge, comprehensive access to and understanding of both domestic […] Read more
On the development of China’s leadership in international collaborations
This content is not available in the selected language. This paper studies the relationship between leadership, team size, and citation impact in China’s international research output from 1980 to 2016, measured in terms of number of authors, institutions, countries, and citations. Distinction is here made between leading and non-leading Chinese international collaborations, which respectively refer […] Read more
Quand les scientifiques se révoltent contre les géants de l’édition savante
This content is not available in the selected language. Vincent Larivière est cité dans cet article du quotidien Le Devoir au sujet de la démission en bloc du comité éditorial de la revue Journal of Informetrics, dont il fait partie, et de la création de la revue en libre accès Quatitatives Sciences Studies (QSS). Read more