The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been topic much debate within and outside community, especially in relation to major publishers' high profit margins. However, share output published journals these publishers, as well its evolution over time across various disciplines, not yet analyzed. This paper provides such analysis, based on 45 million documents indexed Web Science period 1973-2013. It shows that both natural medical sciences (NMS) social humanities (SSH),...

Scientific authorship has been increasingly complemented with contributorship statements. While such statements are said to ensure more equitable credit and responsibility attribution, they also provide an opportunity examine the roles functions that authors play in construction of knowledge relationship between these order. Drawing on a comprehensive multidisciplinary dataset 87,002 documents which found, this article examines forms division labor takes across disciplines, relationships...

Abstract We aim to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by five large commercial publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley) between 2015 2018. Using publication data from WoS, OA status Unpaywall, annual APC prices sets historical fees retrieved via Internet Archive Wayback Machine, we that globally authors $1.06 billion these 2015–2018. Revenue gold amounted $612.5 million,...

In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia has highly endemic potential Ebola warning health authorities risk for outbreaks; this journal is only available by subscription. Limiting accessibility such knowledge may have reduced information propagation toward public actors who were indeed surprised and unprepared 2014 epidemic. Open access (OA) publication can allow increased to global research (GHR). Our study aims assess use, cost impact OA diffusion in context...

The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference and associated website of recorded presentations (TED Talks) is a highly successful disseminator science-related videos, claiming over billion online views. Although hundreds scientists have presented at TED, little information available regarding the presenters, their academic credentials, impact Talks on general population. This article uses bibliometric webometric techniques to gather data characteristics presenters videos analyze...

The reward system of science is undergoing significant changes, as traditional indicators compete with initiatives that offer novel means disseminating and assessing scholarly impact. This article considers a number aspects this system, including authorship, citations, acknowledgements the growing use social media platforms by academics, an eye towards identifying contemporary issues relating to communication practices, understood through perspectives Bourdieu’s symbolic capital Merton’s...

In most countries, basic research is supported by councils that select, after peer review, the individuals or teams are to receive funding. Unfortunately, number of grants these can allocate not infinite and, in cases, a minority researchers majority funds. However, evidence as whether this an optimal way distributing available funds mixed. The purpose study measure relation between amount funding provided 12,720 Quebec over fifteen year period (1998-2012) and their scientific output impact...

Over the past few years, several major scientific fraud cases have shocked community. The number of retractions each year has also increased tremendously, especially in biomedical field, and misconduct accounts for more than half those retractions. It is assumed that co‐authors retracted papers are affected by their colleagues' misconduct, aim this study to provide empirical evidence effect research on co‐authors' careers. Using data from W eb S cience, we measured productivity, impact,...

Research funding is an important factor for public science. Funding may affect which research topics get addressed, and what outputs are produced. However, has often been studied simplistically, using top-down or system-led perspectives. Such approaches restrict analysis to confined national landscapes single organizations instruments in isolation. This overlooks interlinkages, broader researchers might access, trends of growing complexity. paper instead frames a ‘bottom-up’ approach that...

Open Access (OA) dissemination has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last decade, thanks to implementation several OA policies by funders and institutions, as well development new platforms that facilitate publication content at low or no cost. Studies have shown nearly half contemporary scientific literature could be available online for free. However, few studies compared use across countries. This study aims provide global picture adoption countries, using two indicators:...

The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks website hosts video recordings of various experts, celebrities, academics, and others who discuss their topics expertise. Funded by advertising members but provided free online, have been viewed over a billion times are science communication phenomenon. Although the organization has derided for its populist slant emphasis on entertainment value, no previous research assessed audience reactions in order to determine degree which presenter...

Contemporary biomedical research is performed by increasingly large teams. Consequently, an number of individuals are being listed as authors in the bylines, which complicates proper attribution credit and responsibility to individual authors. Typically, more importance given first last authors, while it assumed that others (the middle authors) have made smaller contributions. However, this may not properly reflect actual division labor because some other than major In practice, teams...

Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundles of journals—known as big deals—that provide access to entire collections rather than individual journals. Following this new model, size serial in academic libraries increased almost fivefold from 1986 2011. Using data on library subscriptions references made for a sample North American universities, study provides evidence that, while deal do decrease the mean price per subscribed journal, receive less value their investment. We find...

Abstract The role played by research scholars in the dissemination of scientific knowledge on social media has always been a central topic metrics (altmetrics) research. Different approaches have implemented to identify and characterize active platforms like Twitter. Some limitations past were their complexity and, most importantly, reliance licensed scientometric altmetric data. emergence new open data sources such as OpenAlex or Crossref Event Data provides opportunities using only This...

Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in industrial and governmental settings, but very little empirical evidence exists about phenomenon. This article provides a systematic historical analysis contribution various institutional sectors to knowledge production at world country levels across past four decades. It highlights dramatic diffusion by all countries—with corresponding increase share from universities—as well as an partnerships between universities other sectors....

This paper presents a new method for identifying scholars who have Twitter account from bibliometric data Web of Science (WoS) and Altmetric.com . The reliably identifies matches between accounts scholarly authors. It consists matching elements such as author names, usernames, handles, URLs, followed by rule-based scoring system that weights the common occurrence these related to activities users scholars. proceeds against database millions disambiguated bibliographic profiles WoS. describes...

Diamond open access (OA) journals offer a publishing model that is free for both authors and readers, but their lack of indexing in major bibliographic databases presents challenges assessing the uptake these journals. Furthermore, OA characteristics such as publication language country have often been used to support argument are more diverse aim serve local community, there current empirical evidence related geographical linguistic Using OpenAlex Directory Open Access Journals benchmark,...

In recent years, ocean governance has called for strategic action and science‐informed policy to work towards the sustainable development of ocean, most notably as part UN Decade Ocean Science Sustainable Development (2021–2030). This common framework identifies integration scientific knowledge in a key process deliver solutions responding current challenges, opportunities, transformations posed by global change oceans. article presents methodological approach identifying ocean‐related...

Canada's research productivity in Library and Information Science (LIS) is significant: studies have found that Canada ranks third globally terms of output. As the LIS field continues to grow, pace output accelerates, scope this work expands. The recently launched Canadian Publications Database compiles all scientific publications, including those authored by faculty members academic librarians. This database offers advantage encompassing articles librarian publications may not be typically...

The aim of the Canadian publications in Library and Information Science (LIS) database is to help break down silos which two main target audiences – LIS faculty members academic librarians conduct their research. As part a larger project entitled “Breaking research silos”, we created contributions by researchers (academics practitioners). This was motivated desire make scholars practitioners more visible foster collaboration between these groups. this paper introduce database, describe...

Canada’s research productivity in Library and Information Science (LIS) is significant: studies have found that Canada ranks third globally terms of output. As the LIS field continues to grow, pace output accelerates, scope this work expands. The recently launched Canadian Publications Database compiles all scientific publications, including those authored by faculty members academic librarians. This database offers advantage encompassing articles librarian publications may not be typically...

Abstract Diamond open access (OA) is a publishing model that free for both authors and readers, but their lack of indexing in major bibliographic databases compared to gold journals presents challenges assessing uptake. Furthermore, the characteristics diamond journals, such as language country publication, have often been used support argument they are more diverse serve national research communities. However, there notable empirical evidence regarding geographical linguistic...

Abstract The Villum Experiment (VEX) is one of the few funding schemes that employs a double-blind review process where applicants are blinded to reviewers, applications highly standardised, reviewers do not deliberate, and determined solely by ranked aggregated scores. This unique controlled setting enables assumptions direct reviewer gender bias unlikely. Using causal framework (DAG), we examine extent which disparities in may exist such setting. Our analyses 2,041 from five rounds...