V. Larivière

Publications
Influence

Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services

M. Thelwall, S. Haustein, V. Larivière, C. Sugimoto
Biology, Medicine
PloS one
28 May 2013

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 scientific… Expand

Tweeting biomedicine: An analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature

S. Haustein, I. Peters, C. Sugimoto, M. Thelwall, V. Larivière
Computer Science
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
8 August 2013

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 complement traditional citation analysis. Expand

The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era

V. Larivière, S. Haustein, P. Mongeon
Biology, Medicine
PloS one
10 June 2015

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 margins.… Expand

Bibliometrics: global gender disparities in science.

V. Larivière, Chaoqun Ni, Y. Gingras, B. Cronin, C. Sugimoto
Medicine, Political Science
Nature
12 December 2013

Characterizing Social Media Metrics of Scholarly Papers: The Effect of Document Properties and Collaboration Patterns

S. Haustein, R. Costas, V. Larivière
Sociology, Medicine
PloS one
17 March 2015

A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research impact. Despite their current popularity,… Expand

Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research

Yassine Gargouri, Chawki Hajjem, +4 authors S. Harnad
Medicine, Computer Science
PloS one
3 January 2010

We found that 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 web (“Open Access”, OA) are cited significantly more than articles in the same journal and year that have not been made OA. Expand

Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases

É. Archambault, É. Vignola-Gagné, G. Côté, V. Larivière, Y. Gingras
Sociology, Computer Science
Scientometrics
26 July 2006

We examine the strong link between bibliometrics and the Thomson Scientific's database and review the differences in the production and diffusion of knowledge in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and the natural sciences and engineering (NSE). Expand

Comparing bibliometric statistics obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus

É. Archambault, David Campbell, Y. Gingras, V. Larivière
Geography
1 July 2009

This paper uses macrolevel bibliometric indicators to compare results obtained from the WoS and Scopus. Expand

Green and Gold Open Access Percentages and Growth, by Discipline

Yassine Gargouri, V. Larivière, Y. Gingras, L. Carr, S. Harnad
Computer Science
ArXiv
16 June 2012

We compared the percent and growth rate of Green and Gold OA for 14 disciplines in two random samples of 1300 articles per discipline out of the 12,500 journals indexed by Thomson-Reuters-ISI using a robot that trawled the web for OA full-texts. Expand

Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: A review of the literature

C. Sugimoto, Sam Work, V. Larivière, S. Haustein
Sociology, Computer Science
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
29 August 2016

Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the promotion of new indicators based on these platforms. Expand

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