Sociologie des sciences
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Une réforme de la science aux allures de fusion forcée
Nouvelle intervention médiatique : lettre de François Claveau et Vincent Larivière à propos du projet de loi 44 sur la gouvernance et le réaménagement majeur de la structure des FRQ publiée dans Le Devoir. Lire la suite
Vincent Larivière en audition sur le projet de loi n° 44, sur le ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation en matière de recherche
Ce projet de loi propose plusieurs changements majeurs pour les Fonds de recherche du Québec. Lire la suite
Langues de diffusion des connaissances : quelle place reste-t-il pour le français?
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 chercheur-se-s publient de plus en plus3 . Cette tendance […] Lire la suite
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)
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 de saisir l’apport de la mise en récit pour […] Lire la suite
Predicting research productivity in stem faculty: The role of self-determined motivation.
How are university faculty members in STEM disciplines motivated to conduct research, and how does motivation predict their success? The current study assessed how multiple types of self-determined motivation predict research productivity in a sample of 651 faculty from 10 US institutions. Using structural equation modeling, the basic psychological needs of autonomy and competence predicted […] Lire la suite
Varieties of diffusion in academic publishing: How status and legitimacy influence growth trajectories of new innovations
Open Access (OA) publishing has progressed from an initial fringe idea to a still-growing, major component of modern academic communication. The proliferation of OA publishing presents a context to examine how new innovations and institutions develop. Based on analyses of 1,296,304 articles published in 83 OA journals, we analyze changes in the institutional status, gender, […] Lire la suite
The decrease in uncited articles and its effect on the concentration of citations
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 in citation concentration. Are citations becoming more concentrated in […] Lire la suite
Gender differences in submission behavior exacerbate publication disparities in elite journals
Women are particularly underrepresented in journals of the highest scientific impact, with substantial consequences for their careers. While a large body of research has focused on the outcome and the process of peer review, fewer articles have explicitly focused on gendered submission behavior and the explanations for these differences. In our study of nearly five […] Lire la suite
On the lack of women researchers in the Middle East and North Africa
Recent gender policies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have improved legal equality for women with noticeable effects in some countries. The implications of these policies on science, however, are not well-understood. This study applies a bibliometric lens to describe the landscape of gender disparities in scientific research in MENA. Specifically, we […] Lire la suite
Research mobility to the united states: A bibliometric analysis.
This paper provides a global picture of the research mobility to the United States between 2010 and 2020 with the aim of determining whether the election of Trump acted as an influential factor on this mobility. The United States has historically been a central destination for researchers. However, many believe that the recent political climate […] Lire la suite