There are several limits to the use of bibliometric analysis of scholarly communication in the
social sciences and humanities. This paper reviews three of those limits: the lower …

Depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la diffusion des connaissances dans les
disciplines des sciences naturelles et médicales est dominée par l’anglais. Toutefois, dans les …

The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate within
and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers’ high profit …

Since the publication of Robert K. Merton's theory of cumulative advantage in science (Matthew
Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence at the level of papers…

This article provides the first historical analysis of the relationship between collaboration
and scientific impact using three indicators of collaboration (number of authors, number of …

L’ensemble de la communauté scientifique réclame depuis plusieurs années des indicateurs
fiables permettant de mesurer les répercussions de la recherche. La ferveur inégalée …

… Vincent Larivière … Vincent Larivière is chaired assistant professor of transformations of
scholarly communication at the University of Montreal, Canada., … Vincent Larivière …

Background Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the
publisher's version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on the …

Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as
early indicators of article impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic …

Data collected by social media platforms have been introduced as new sources for indicators
to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to …