Informetrics

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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)

This content is not available in the selected language. 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 […] Read more

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Who games metrics and rankings? Institutional niches and journal impact factor inflation

This content is not available in the selected language. Ratings and rankings are omnipresent and influential in contemporary society. Individuals and organizations strategically respond to incentives set by rating systems. We use academic publishing as a case study to examine organizational variation in responses to influential metrics. The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is a prominent […] Read more

Newspapers & Blogs

Une année intense pour la recherche scientifique

This content is not available in the selected language. Le Devoir se penche sur l’année intense que la recherche scientifique a vécu avec l’arrivée de la pandémie de COVID-19. Vincent Larivière se prononce quant à lui sur l’essor de la science ouverte afin de mieux diffuser l’information scientifique. Read more

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Collection development in the era of big deals

This content is not available in the selected language. Drawing on an original methodology using citations, downloads, and survey data, this paper analyses journal usage patterns across 28 Canadian universities. Results show that usage levels vary across disciplines, and that different academic platforms varied in their importance to different institutions, with for-profit platforms generally exhibiting […] Read more