2026 Vincent Larivière: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	69	1945	1883	70	64	245	23621
Social Sciences and Humanities	77	454	390	27	25	388	26574

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Vincent Larivière is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada, focusing primarily on Decision Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems and Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics explored by Larivière include scientometrics and bibliometrics research, academic publishing and open access, research data management practices, academic writing and publishing, topic modeling, climate change communication and perception, and gender diversity and inequality.

Recent publications illustrate the diversity of Larivière's research interests. Selected papers include:

"Intersectional inequalities in science" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Improving Reproducibility in Machine Learning Research (A Report from the NeurIPS 2019 Reproducibility Program)" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"The gendered nature of authorship" (2021), published in Science Advances
"Investigating the division of scientific labor using the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT)" (2020), published in Quantitative Science Studies
"Exploring the personal and professional factors associated with student evaluations of tenure-track faculty" (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Larivière include:

Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Diego Kozlowski
Marc-André Simard
Philippe Mongeon
Natsumi S. Shokida

Larivière publishes regularly in several venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Scientometrics
Quantitative Science Studies
PLoS ONE

Additionally, Larivière has contributed to book publications, including:

"Equity for Women in Science" (2023), published by Harvard University Press

Best Publications

Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science

Vincent Larivière;Chaoqun Ni;Yves Gingras;Blaise Cronin

1679
Citations
The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era

Vincent Larivière;Vincent Larivière;Stefanie Haustein;Philippe Mongeon

1439
Citations
The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

Heather Piwowar;Jason Priem;Vincent Larivière;Vincent Larivière;Juan Pablo Alperin;Juan Pablo Alperin

1265
Citations
Do Altmetrics Work? Twitter and Ten Other Social Web Services

Mike Thelwall;Stefanie Haustein;Vincent Larivière;Cassidy R. Sugimoto

1195
Citations
Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research

Yassine Gargouri;Chawki Hajjem;Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras

733
Citations
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: A review of the literature

Cassidy R. Sugimoto;Sam Work;Vincent Larivière;Vincent Larivière;Stefanie Haustein

659
Citations
Benchmarking scientific output in the social sciences and humanities: The limits of existing databases

Éric Archambault;Étienne Vignola-Gagné;Grégoire Côté;Vincent Larivière

649
Citations
Tweeting biomedicine: An analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature

Stefanie Haustein;Isabella Peters;Cassidy R. Sugimoto;Mike Thelwall

523
Citations
Comparing Bibliometric Statistics Obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus

Eric Archambault;David Campbell;Yves Gingras;Vincent Lariviere

470
Citations
Team size matters: Collaboration and scientific impact since 1900

Vincent Larivière;Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras;Cassidy R. Sugimoto;Andrew Tsou

448
Citations
Comparing bibliometric statistics obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus

Éric Archambault;David Campbell;Yves Gingras;Vincent Larivière

440
Citations
History of the journal impact factor: contingencies and consequences

Éric Archambault;Vincent Larivière;Vincent Larivière

433
Citations
Characterizing social media metrics of scholarly papers: the effect of document properties and collaboration patterns

Stefanie Haustein;Rodrigo Costas;Vincent Larivière

422
Citations
The place of serials in referencing practices: Comparing natural sciences and engineering with social sciences and humanities

Vincent Larivière;Éric Archambault;Yves Gingras;Étienne Vignola-Gagné

387
Citations
Intersectional inequalities in science

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373
Citations
The weakening relationship between the impact factor and papers' citations in the digital age

George A. Lozano;Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras

335
Citations
Canadian collaboration networks: A comparative analysis of the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities

Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras;Éric Archambault

320
Citations
The Use of Bibliometrics for Assessing Research: Possibilities, Limitations and Adverse Effects

Stefanie Haustein;Vincent Larivière

297
Citations
Misconduct Policies, Academic Culture and Career Stage, Not Gender or Pressures to Publish, Affect Scientific Integrity.

Daniele Fanelli;Rodrigo Costas;Vincent Larivière

296
Citations
Factors affecting sex-related reporting in medical research: a cross-disciplinary bibliometric analysis.

Cassidy R. Sugimoto;Yong Yeol Ahn;Elise Smith;Benoit Macaluso

293
Citations
Tweets as impact indicators: Examining the implications of automated bot accounts on Twitter

Stefanie Haustein;Timothy D. Bowman;Kim Holmberg;Andrew Tsou

285
Citations
The Effects of Aging on Researchers' Publication and Citation Patterns

Yves Gingras;Vincent Larivière;Benoît Macaluso;Jean-Pierre Robitaille

279
Citations
Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Ehsan Mohammadi;Mike Thelwall;Stefanie Haustein;Vincent Larivière;Vincent Larivière

278
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Cassidy R. Sugimoto Indiana University

Yves Gingras University of Quebec at Montreal

Rodrigo Costas Leiden University

Mike Thelwall University of Sheffield

Stevan Harnad University of Quebec at Montreal

Blaise Cronin Indiana University

Ying Ding The University of Texas at Austin

Ludo Waltman Leiden University

Katy Börner Indiana University

David B. Resnik National Institutes of Health

External Links

Personal website of Vincent Larivière Google Scholar page

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