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The impact factor's Matthew effect: a natural experiment in bibliometrics
Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
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…
physics.soc-ph2009
On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact
Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
This paper analyzes the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual papers. Using all the papers published in Web of Science in 2000, we define the degree…
physics.soc-ph2009
On the prevalence and scientific impact of duplicate publications in different scientific fields (1980-2007)
Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
The issue of duplicate publications has received a lot of attention in the medical literature, but much less in the information science community. This paper aims at analyzing the…