4 papers
Any Old Tom, Dick or Harry: The Citation Impact of First Name Genderedness
Maxime Holmberg Sainte-Marie, Vincent Larivière
This paper examines the relationship between the genderedness of authors' first names and citation distributions in US-affiliated scholarly production from 2010 to 2019. Merging a…
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
Fernanda Beigel, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto +9
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funde…
The oligopoly of academic publishers persists in exclusive database
Simon van Bellen, Juan Pablo Alperin, Vincent Larivière
Global scholarly publishing has been dominated by a small number of publishers for several decades. We aimed to revisit the debate on corporate control of scholarly publishing by a…
An analysis of the suitability of OpenAlex for bibliometric analyses
Juan Pablo Alperin, Jason Portenoy, Kyle Demes +2
Scopus and the Web of Science have been the foundation for research in the science of science even though these traditional databases systematically underrepresent certain discipli…