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D-Index
56
Citations
15935
World Ranking
1864
National Ranking
104

Yves Gingras publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yves Gingras sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 317 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Yves Gingras D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yves Gingras sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 56 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Yves Gingras is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields and topics focusing on the intersection of science studies, sociology, and philosophy of science.

The scientist's work covers the following main topics:

  • Scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Philosophy and history of science
  • Education, sociology, and vocational training
  • Complex network analysis techniques
  • Interdisciplinary research and collaboration
  • University-industry-government innovation models
  • Web visibility and informetrics

Gingras's research fields and subfields include sociology and political science, statistics, probability and uncertainty, history and philosophy of science, statistical and nonlinear physics, and philosophy.

Selected recent publications demonstrate the breadth of their work:

  • "Philosophy in Science: Can Philosophers of Science Permeate through Science and Produce Scientific Knowledge?" (2021, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science)
  • "The visibility of philosophy of science in the sciences, 1980-2018" (2021, Synthese)
  • "The interdisciplinarity of economics" (2023, Cambridge Journal of Economics)
  • "Measuring national self-referencing patterns of major science producers" (2020, Scientometrics)
  • "The Interdisciplinarity of Economics" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Mahdi Khelfaoui
  • François Claveau
  • Thomas Pradeu
  • Maël Lemoine
  • Alexandre Truc

Gingras has contributed to publication venues such as Pour la Science, with 26 publications, as well as Scientometrics, Zilsel, Social Science Information, and arXiv (Cornell University).

The scientist's book publications include:

  • Sociologie des sciences (2020, Presses Universitaires De France)
  • Dictionnaire international Bourdieu (2020, CNRS Éditions)
  • Experimentation in the Sciences (2024, Springer International Publishing)

In recognition of their contributions, Yves Gingras was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Bibliometrics: Global gender disparities in science

    Vincent Larivière;Chaoqun Ni;Yves Gingras;Blaise Cronin

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

    Yassine Gargouri;Chawki Hajjem;Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras

  • The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access☆

    Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody;François Vallières;Les Carr

  • The place of universities in the system of knowledge production

    Benoit Godin;Yves Gingras

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

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

  • Comparing Bibliometric Statistics Obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus

    Eric Archambault;David Campbell;Yves Gingras;Vincent Lariviere

  • Team size matters: Collaboration and scientific impact since 1900

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

  • Comparing bibliometric statistics obtained from the Web of Science and Scopus

    Éric Archambault;David Campbell;Yves Gingras;Vincent Larivière

  • Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact

    Chawki Hajjem;Stevan Harnad;Yves Gingras

  • 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

  • The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access: An Update

    Stevan Harnad;Tim Brody;François Vallières;Les Carr

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

    George A. Lozano;Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras

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

    Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras;Éric Archambault

  • What is scientific and technological culture and how is it measured? A multidimensional model

    Benoit Godin;Yves Gingras

  • The Effects of Aging on Researchers' Publication and Citation Patterns

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

  • Sex differences in research funding, productivity and impact: an analysis of Québec university professors

    Vincent Larivière;Etienne Vignola-Gagné;Christian Villeneuve;Pascal Gélinas

  • Les formes spécifiques de l'internationalité du champ scientifique

    Yves Gingras

  • The impact factor's Matthew Effect: A natural experiment in bibliometrics

    Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras

  • On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact

    Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras

  • The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007

    Vincent Larivière;Yves Gingras;Éric Archambault

  • Les dérives de l'évaluation de la recherche : du bon usage de la bibliométrie

    Yves Gingras

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Larivière
Vincent Larivière University of Montreal
Stevan Harnad
Stevan Harnad University of Quebec at Montreal
Cassidy R. Sugimoto
Cassidy R. Sugimoto Indiana University
Charles Oppenheim
Charles Oppenheim Robert Gordon University
Paul S. Brookes
Paul S. Brookes University of Rochester Medical Center
Blaise Cronin
Blaise Cronin Indiana University
Paul Wouters
Paul Wouters Leiden University
Michael Power
Michael Power London School of Economics and Political Science
Denis Réale
Denis Réale University of Quebec at Montreal

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