Vincent Larivière
Professeur, Vice-recteur assoc. | EBSI-UdeM | Titulaire Chaire UNESCO sur la science ouverte, Co-titulaire Chaire sur la découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques en français | Dir. sc. Érudit | EIC Quantitative Sciences Studies
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreNew paper alert! 🤩 if you have also wondered "how multilingual is scholarly communication?", check out our work where we try to find an answer by mapping the global distribution of languages in publications and citations. Gros merci @caropradier.bsky.social and @lariviev.bsky.social 💚 #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreWe've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreI wish 2026 is the year we stop the drain that scientific publishers impose on science. Instead of funding science, increasing shares of shrinking research budgets are funneled to publishers in exchange of.. not much. Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy
- Reposted by Vincent Larivière"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreOpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572
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- Reposted by Vincent Larivière💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science ✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca #AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreProfits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
- Reposted by Vincent Larivière🧵 1/ 🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask: 👉 Why do some papers cite others? 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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- "Publish (in English) or Perish", mythe ou réalité institutionnelle? www.acfas.ca/publications...
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreQSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:
- Reposted by Vincent Larivière→ Plaidoyer pour le multilinguisme en sciences 📚 Article à lire : @bowkerl.bsky.social, Mikael Laakso & @jpolonen.bsky.social explorent les risques liés au monolinguisme anglophone sur l’écosystème scientifique. 📌 L'article : id.erudit.org/iderudit/111... 📌 Résumé de l'article : shorturl.at/nKGgo
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreToday, our colleague Thed van Leeuwen gives his inaugural lecture at Leiden University. Ahead of the event, he shares key insights — calling for a more human-centred approach in #OpenScience. 📰 Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... @leidensocial.bsky.social
- Reposted by Vincent Larivière📢 Our new study challenges the prevailing narrative that a few commercial publishers dominate global scholarly publishing! Read the preprint: Beyond the oligopoly: Scholarly journal publishing landscapes in Latin America and Europe. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreThe world's largest science publishers - which enjoy huge power & profits - consistently pay men more than women We analysed 8 years of #genderpaygap data & contrast staggering pay inequities w/ the warm glow publishers often get for #EDI #genderequality Pls share our new paper & Call to Action
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreNew from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreMy Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreThere are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
- Reposted by Vincent Larivière🔎 « Le combat de la recherche universitaire en français en contexte minoritaire » 📣 Comment renforcer le positionnement du Français (face à l'Anglais) dans le monde de la recherche ? 🎤 Enregistré lors du 92ᵉ congrès de @acfas.ca avec Tanja Niemann et @lariviev.bsky.social 🔗 shorturl.at/6BoSU
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreWould you use AI to write a research paper? Would you use AI in peer review? Would you disclose it if you had? We asked 5000 researchers these questions. What do you think of their answers? You can read the full survey results here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreLa Chaire répond « présent » pour une 2e journée au congrès de l’ @acfas.ca 🙋♀️ Présentation du modèle d’écosystème de la découvrabilité par Joanie Grenier et échanges inspirants avec @lariviev.bsky.social. Une journée riche et engagée !
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreJust got mine. Totally expected, but it still sucks. Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreÉvénement à ne pas manquer📌 🎙️ Dans le cadre des "États généraux des revues scientifiques" du @reseaucirce.bsky.social (en marge du 92e @acfas.ca), @lariviev.bsky.social animera un atelier sur la découvrabilité des revues savantes, entouré d’expert·es du domaine. 🔗 reseaucirce.org/evenements/e...
- Multilinguisme et découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques : le pari de la traduction automatique www.acfas.ca/publications...
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreThis, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreFourteen universities may have manipulated institutional rankings “The pursuit of higher rankings...puts ‘intense pressure’ on institutions to publish more – ‘sometimes at the expense of ethical considerations’.” 🖊️ @dalmeet.bsky.social ‣ @chemistryworld.com [ #academicsky ]
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- Les conséquences scientifiques du démantèlement de l’État américain www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...?
- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreFrom the former director of NIGMS, the most thorough inside summary of what is happening at NIH that I've read to date.
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- Reposted by Vincent LarivièreL’initiative de Budapest BOAI en transition pour soutenir le développement de l’accès ouvert équitable. With thanks to @jcdrg.bsky.social & @lariviev.bsky.social for the translation! www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/linitia...
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