Lariviere, V; Macaluso, B; Archambault, E; Gingras, Y. 2010. Which scientific elites? On the concentration of research funds, publications and citations. RESEARCH EVALUATION 19 (1): 45-53

[Eugene Garfield]

Lariviere, V; Macaluso, B; Archambault, E; Gingras, Y. 2010. Which scientific 
elites? On the concentration of research funds, publications and citations. 
RESEARCH EVALUATION 19 (1): 45-53.

Author Full Name(s): Lariviere, Vincent; Macaluso, Benoit; Archambault, Eric; 
Gingras, Yves

Language: English
Document Type: Article

Abstract: Using the population of all university professors (N = 13,479) in the 
province of Quebec, Canada, this article analyses the concentration of funding, 
papers and citations at the level of individual researchers. It shows that each 
of these distributions is different, citations being the most concentrated 
followed by funding, papers published and, finally, number of funded projects. 
Concentration measures also vary between disciplines; social sciences and 
humanities generally being the most concentrated. The article also shows that 
the correspondence between the elites defined by each of these measures is 
limited. In fact, only 3.2% of the researchers are in the top 10% for all 
indicators, while about 20% are in the top 10% for at least one of the 
indicators. The article concludes with a discussion of the causes of these 
observed differences and formulates a few hypotheses.

Addresses: [Lariviere, Vincent; Macaluso, Benoit; Archambault, Eric; Gingras, 
Yves] Univ Quebec, Ctr Interuniv Rech Sci & Technol, Observ Sci & Technol, 
Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada; [Archambault, Eric] Sci Metrix, Montreal, PQ 
H2H 2B5, Canada

Reprint Address: Lariviere, V, Univ Quebec, Ctr Interuniv Rech Sci & Technol, 
Observ Sci & Technol, CP 8888,Succ Ctr Ville, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada.

E-mail Address: lariviere.vincent at uqam.ca; macaluso.benoit at uqam.ca; 
eric.archambault at science-metrix.com; gingras.yves at uqam.ca

ISSN: 0958-2029
DOI: 10.3152/095820210X492495
Fulltext: 
http://www.ost.uqam.ca/Portals/0/docs/articles/2010/RE%20March%202010.p
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