Vincent Larivière

New 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

We'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

I 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

"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.

OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” C’est une annonce qui est passée relativement inaperçue, mais qui mérite que l’on s’y arrête un instant. Clarivate a récemment annoncé l’intégration d’OpenAlex comme une nouvelle base de données au se...

OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572

The State of Science, Technology, and Innovation in Canada 2025 Over the last 20 years, the CCA has carried out a series of assessments evaluating...

A high-performing innovation ecosystem is essential to the well-being of all people in Canada. Our newest report details the state of science, technology, and innovation in Canada, including key drivers shaping the ecosystem, and barriers and knowledge gaps. 🧪 go.cca-reports.ca/4jPxfm0

Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?

💥New: Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science

✍️ @danbrockington.bsky.social @aileenfyfe.bsky.social @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca

#AcademicSky #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

Carte sociale avec titre et image de couverture.

À paraître demain! Notre tout nouveau rapport détaille l’état de la science, de la technologie et de l’innovation au Canada. go.cca-reports.ca/444LTBg

Abonnez-vous à notre liste de diffusion pour être averti de sa parution : bit.ly/cca-advance

To reform universities, first tackle global rankings Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.

'Such reliance on rankings means that universities are shaped not by the needs of society or by innovations driven from inside the international higher-education community, but by unappointed third-party ranking agencies'

@lizziegadd.bsky.social in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Drain of Scientific Publishing 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, funders, governments and ...

Profits 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.

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🚨 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...

We’re now OpenAlex - OpenAlex blog For years, we’ve been working under the name OurResearch. That name sat at the top of our org chart, with three child projects under it: OpenAlex, Unpaywall, and Unsub. Starting today, things are simp...

OurResearch rebrands to OpenAlex.

blog.openalex.org/were-now-ope...

"Publish (in English) or Perish", mythe ou réalité institutionnelle? Découvrabilité | La littérature révèle l'existence d'une perception répandue parmi les chercheur·euses d'une obligation de publier en anglais pour assurer la progression de leur carrière. Mais d’où vi...

"Publish (in English) or Perish", mythe ou réalité institutionnelle? www.acfas.ca/publications...

The MetaROR Publish-Review-Curate Model: our experience as authors | Open Science NL As professionals working in open science and scholarly communication reform, we believe in practicing what we preach. That’s why we recently chose to publish an article using the…

QSS 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:

→ 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

Wonderful news! Many thanks to @lariviev.bsky.social & all the nearly 5k other organizational & individual signatories of the #DefendResearch Declaration!

A new view of the state of the scholarly publishing oligopoly: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Considering journals and papers published, big publishers have been losing ground, as many independent journals have been created, especially since 2000. With @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca @lariviev.bsky.social

On Thursday at 14:00 CET we will have another seminar! Franek will talk about „Developing Oligopolies Through Hegemonic Cycles” - so how can we apply methods developed by Wallerstein and Arrighi to analyse the rise of the oligopoly of academic publishers described by @lariviev.bsky.social ?

‘Don’t let open science degenerate into a data dump’ An endless stream of publications, data and software accessible to all? Professor of Science Studies Thed van Leeuwen calls for a more human-centred approach and an overhaul of the PhD system.

Today, 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

📢 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...

Gender pay gaps and inequity at science publishers

The 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

Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

New 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

Un especial agradecimiento a @lariviev.bsky.social por darnos esta entrevista en profundidad, super rica, pausada, que fue un gusto realizar y traducir, y que hoy compartimos en inglés y castellano for all multilinguals out there 😊

My 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...

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There 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.

🔎 « 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

A graphic titled "experiences with using AI to write papers". Bar charts showed the following results: 18% have used AI to edit their paper without disclosing AI use 10% have used AI to edit their paper and disclosed AI use 43% have not used AI to edit their paper but would be willing to 29% have not used AI to edit their paper and would not consider it 4% have used AI to translate a paper and not disclosed AI use 4% have used AI to translate a paper and disclosed AI use 43% have not used AI to translate have not used AI to translate a paper but would be willing to 49% have not used AI to translate a paper and would not consider it 4% have used AI to make summaries of other papers to use in own work and not disclosed AI use 4% have used AI to make summaries of other papers to use in own work and disclosed AI use 35% have not used AI to make summaries of other papers to use in own work, but have considered it 57% would not consider using AI to make summaries of other papers to use in own work 4% have used AI to write a first draft of paper without disclosing use 4% have used AI to write a first draft of a paper and disclosed use 29% have not used AI to write a first draft of a paper, but would consider it 63% have never used AI to write a first draft of a paper, and would never consider it

Would 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...

Our 155M are deduplicated; the full number of publications is 245 M. You can also use full-text search over 22M works without any personal ID or tracking systems, share alerts and results. matilda.science?l=en

Parution de l’ouvrage collectif du CIRST! 👏🏼

J’y signe un chapitre sur la #reproductibilité en sciences avec @lariviev.bsky.social—un texte écrit pendant ma 3e grossesse! ✍️🤰🏻

Un sujet complexe et souvent controversé, qu’on tente ici de remettre en perspective.
🔗 pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/fa...