Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published research
Authors : Vincent Larivière, Benoit Macaluso, Philippe Mongeon, Kyle Siler, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in indu...
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The Journal Impact Factor: A brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects
Authors : Vincent Lariviere, Cassidy R. Sugimoto The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is, by far, the most discussed bibliometric indicator. Since its introduction o...
Authorial and institutional stratification in open access publishing: the case of global health research
Authors : Kyle Siler, Stefanie Haustein, Elise Smith, Vincent Larivière, Juan Pablo Alperin Using a database of recent articles published in the field of Global...
The rise of the middle author: Investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship
Authors : Philippe Mongeon, Elise Smith, Bruno Joyal, Vincent Larivière Contemporary biomedical research is performed by increasingly large teams. Consequently,...
The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
Authors : Heather Piwowar, Jason Priem, Vincent Larivière, Juan Pablo Alperin, Lisa Matthias, Bree Norlander, Ashley Farley, Jevin West, Stefanie Haustein Despi...
Researchers’ Individual Publication Rate Has Not Increased in a Century
Authors : Daniele Fanelli, Vincent Larivière Debates over the pros and cons of a “publish or perish” philosophy have inflamed academia for at least half a centu...
A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
Authors : Vincent Larivière, Véronique Kiermer, Catriona J. MacCallum, Marcia McNutt, Mark Patterson, Bernd Pulverer, Sowmya Swaminathan, Stuart Taylor, Stephen...