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Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 2006

The Maximum Entropy Principle (MEP) maximises the entropy subject to the constraint that the effo... more The Maximum Entropy Principle (MEP) maximises the entropy subject to the constraint that the effort remains constant. The Principle of Least Effort (PLE) minimises the effort subject to the constraint that the entropy remains constant. The paper investigates the relation between these two principles. It is shown that (MEP) is equivalent with the principle "(PLE) or (PME)" where (PME) is (introduced in this paper) the Principle of Most Effort, meaning that the effort is maximised subject to the constraint that the entropy remains constant.

The purpose of the study was to analyse the way in which papers published by European pharmaceuti... more The purpose of the study was to analyse the way in which papers published by European pharmaceutical journals are made available by the main French document supplier, " Institut National de l'Information Scientifique et Technique " linked to the " Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique " (INIST-CNRS). After having given a definition and built up a sample of 289 journals, orders for them during 1996-1999 were analysed. Then, the possible relationships between orders to INIST-CNRS and the impact of journals on the scientific community (from Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) data) were examined. Finally, a study was made of relationships between document orders to INIST-CNRS and the indexation of European pharmaceutical journals in bibliographic databases.

Scientometrics, Oct 27, 2015

The study aims to investigate the relationships between consumption of e-journals distributed by ... more The study aims to investigate the relationships between consumption of e-journals distributed by Elsevier ScienceDirect platform, publication (articles) and impact (citations) in a sample of 13 French universities, from 2003 to 2009. It adopts a value perspective as it questions whether or not publication activity and impact are some kind of return led by consumption. A bibliometric approach was used to explore the relations between these three variables. The analysis developed indicators inspired by the mathematical h-Index technique. Results show that the relation between consumption, publication and citations depends on the discipline's profile, the intensity of research and the size of each institution. Moreover, although relations have been observed between the three variables, it is not possible to determine which variable comes first to explain the phenomena. The study concludes by showing strong correlations, which nevertheless do not lead to clear causal relations. The article provide practical implication for academic library managers who want to show the added value of their electronic e-journals collections can replicate the study approach. Also for policy makers who want to take into account e-journals usage as an informative tool to predict the importance of publication activity. Originality: The study is the first French contribution to e-journal value studies. Its originality consists in developing a value viewpoint that relies on a bibliometric approach.

Scientometrics, Jun 12, 2009

Using strictly the same parameters (identical two publication years (2004-2005) and identical one... more Using strictly the same parameters (identical two publication years (2004-2005) and identical one-year citation window (2006)), IF 2006 was compared with h-index 2006 for two samples of "Pharmacology and Pharmacy" and "Psychiatry" journals computed from the ISI Web of Science. For the two samples, the IF and the h-index rankings of the journals are very different. The correlation coefficient between the IF and the h-index is high for Psychiatry but lower for Pharmacology. The linearity test performed between the h-index and 1 1 1.      n IF showed the great sensitivity of the model compared with . The IF and h-index can be completely complementary when evaluating journals of the same scientific discipline.

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011

Objective: Journal Impact Factor (IF) is well known for being the document measure of scientific ... more Objective: Journal Impact Factor (IF) is well known for being the document measure of scientific journal impact, despite several recognised limitations. Our study tried to propose a new rating system (journal h-index) applied to a sample of psychiatry journals and compared to IF. Method: In order to strictly compare their IF and h-index using the same data, we wanted to work on all the citations obtained in 2006 by the articles published in 2004-2005 in the 50 journals of our Web of Science sample of psychiatry. We studied the statistical correlation between the IF 2006 and hindex 2006. Results: The rankings of the 50 psychiatry journals were different when we took into account respectively the descending order of IF 2006 and h-index 2006 which revealed 16 steps and therefore 16 groups of journals. We noted that two journals were up 21 places (record) in h-index 2006 ranking and one journal lost 17 places. Nevertheless we obtained a high correlation coefficient well illustrated by the group of the seven first journals whose the two rankings were very close. We noted that our sample had only two journals really specialised in the publication of reviews. Conclusions: The rating of journals starting from the h-index may represent an interesting and complementary alternative to the well-known rating based on the IF. The h-index rating proposes a categorization of journals making it possible to create classes of journals with the same h-index. This type of ranking by classes is often appreciated and used by experts and scientific committees of evaluation.

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 11, 2018

This paper presents preliminary statistical results of the "Blue Bot research" conducted in 2017.... more This paper presents preliminary statistical results of the "Blue Bot research" conducted in 2017. It is a comparative study dedicated to introduce robotics and computer science to children of 5 years old, in their final year at kindergarten. The experiment was carried out in 35 classrooms from Hauts-de-France (North of France). The serious gaming activity proposed three different modalities: the body, the robot and digital tablet. We will present the first results of the various pre-and post-test studies carried out during the experimentation.

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2021

Le projet Blue Bot a impliqué 230 élèves de cinq ans en troisième année de maternelle dans la rég... more Le projet Blue Bot a impliqué 230 élèves de cinq ans en troisième année de maternelle dans la région Nord-Pas de Calais (France). L'objectif était de les initier au codage, au décodage et à la conception de la programmation. Une séance ludopédagogique a été proposée. Elle comportait trois modalités : corps, robot et tablette. Les résultats statistiques ont confirmé la fiabilité de l'expérience scientifique et mis en avant que la bi-modalité associant robot et tablette a recensé les scores de performance les plus élevés dans une méthode évaluative de type pré et post tests. L'objectif de cette communication est d'exposer l'hypothèse de la « distance » pour tenter d'expliquer ce phénomène. ABSTRACT "Distance" Hypothesis applied to robot-pedagogy for children in kindergarten. The Blue Bot project involved 230 five-year-old pupils of kindergarten in the Nord-Pas de Calais Region (France). The goal was to introduce them to coding, decoding and programming design. A ludopedagogy session was proposed with three main modalities: Body, Robot and Tablet. The statistical results confirmed the reliability of the scientific experiment and highlighted that the two modality combining Robot and Tablet recorded the highest performance scores in a pre-and posttest type evaluation method. The objective of this communication is to expose the "Distance" hypothesis as an attempt to explain this phenomenon.

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific ... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. ILDS 35.1 Bador et al rev 14.10.06

Purpose: The article investigates the customers for the document supply of print serials. Approac... more Purpose: The article investigates the customers for the document supply of print serials. Approach: The study is based on data from INIST-CNRS for document supply requests in pharmacology. Data were collected from 1998 to 2005 (10,000+ customer accounts with 4.6m orders). Findings: The article provides information about the distribution of orders per customer type, about the geographical origin of customers, about the ordering trends among pharmaceutical customers and of pharmaceutical journals. Originality: This is the last of three articles on a longitudinal study over 13 years on different aspects of the relationship between document supply and impact factor (citations) in pharmacology, a scientific domain with a high use of scientific information.

Notre monde est numeral et cet ouvrage donne les cles pour circuler dans cet univers de chiffres ... more Notre monde est numeral et cet ouvrage donne les cles pour circuler dans cet univers de chiffres tel qu'il est reconfigure par l'internet et les questions les plus recentes des sciences humaines et sociales. Lois puissances inverses et pratiques intellectuelles, ainsi soudes ces deux themes ont de quoi impressioner. Cette relation - plus precisement l'utilite de ces lois pour aborder et penser les activites intellectuelles - les auteurs l'abordent avec le souci d'accompagner le lecteur sur un terrain tout juste defriche. Cet ourage met ainsi a notre disposition "un objet mathematique bien utile".

This paper presents preliminary statistical results of the “Blue Bot research” conducted in 2017.... more This paper presents preliminary statistical results of the “Blue Bot research” conducted in 2017. It is a comparative study dedicated to introduce robotics and computer science to children of 5 years old, in their final year at kindergarten. The experiment was carried out in 35 classrooms from Hauts-de-France (North of France). The serious gaming activity proposed three different modalities: the body, the robot and digital tablet. We will present the first results of the various preand post-test studies carried out during the experimentation.

Learned Publishing, 2018

This study investigates the extent to which open access (OA) publishing models affect French rese... more This study investigates the extent to which open access (OA) publishing models affect French researchers’ attitudes. Research questions were: What place does OA have in attitudes of French researchers in mathematics, biology, and computer science? Are French researchers aware of new publishing models? Do they publish in these new outlets? What funds do they use? What kind of feedback and satisfaction can we observe? We used a quantitative approach to identify structural trends. From April to May 2015, the authors gathered empirical data (interviews, training, and meetings) on researchers’ opinions and understanding of OA publishing models to define the variables and build up the questionnaire that was sent out in June 2015. The findings of the survey demonstrated that, when choosing journals to publish their articles, researchers did not rate OA as a criterion but rather impact, prestige, and symbolic recognition. Publishing OA articles is only in its first stages in the publishing ...

La théorie statistique de l'information de C. Shannon, appelée souvent à tort théorie de l&#3... more La théorie statistique de l'information de C. Shannon, appelée souvent à tort théorie de l'information ou théorie mathématique de la communication, est souvent réduite et connue en SIC (Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication) au travers du schéma du système général de la communication : source, émetteur, signal...bruit..... La théorie de Shannon est connue en statistique par sa célèbre formule de l'entropie. La formule de Shannon est isomorphe à la formule de l'entropie de Boltzmann en physique. Cette théorie est importante car elle est à la jonction de la théorie du signal et de la statistique. Les mesures de l'entropie sons utilisés comme indicateurs en statistique unidimensionnel et bidimensionnelle .Nous essaierons au travers de cet article de donner le point de vue de l'infométrie.

L'article présente une description du systeme de filtrage personnalisé Profil-Doc, une premie... more L'article présente une description du systeme de filtrage personnalisé Profil-Doc, une premiere expérimentation ainsi que quelques indicateurs simples d'évaluation.

La régularité de structure des articles en information scientifique et technique nous a permis de... more La régularité de structure des articles en information scientifique et technique nous a permis de définir des propriétés de caractérisation des parties de discours, nous les appelons unités documentaires. Nous avons choisi de les décrire selon leur type (introduction, résultats, conclusion ...), leur forme discursive (argumentatif, narratif, ...) ou leur style de présentation (littéraire, données numériques, schéma, ...). Ces propriétés utilisées dans le cadre du projet Profil-Doc, permettent de construire une base de données où l'information extraite lors d'une interrogation est filtrée selon une fonction d'usage pour l'utilisateur. L'article suivant propose des résultats expérimentaux sur la caractérisation d'une telle base de données. Nous avons en particulier cherché à vérifier s'il existe (ou non) une régularité des propriétés des unités documentaires ainsi que d'éventuelles corrélations entre elles. Cette analyse s'appuie sur une étude stati...

Scientometrics, 2000

The patterns that appear in exchanges between researchers, scientific journal publications and th... more The patterns that appear in exchanges between researchers, scientific journal publications and the demand for scientific articles often intersect, but the logic behind each type of activity is not necessarily the same. Analyses of requests for scientific articles from document suppliers may help to interpret current developments in electronic publishing.This study of article requests to the Institut de l'information scientifique

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Journal de pharmacie de Belgique

Our purpose was to analyse the process of providing papers, edited by european pharmaceutical jou... more Our purpose was to analyse the process of providing papers, edited by european pharmaceutical journals, by the main French document supplier, "Institut National de l'Information Scientifique et Technique" linked to the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (INIST-CNRS). After having given a definition and built up a corpus of 289 journals, orders about them during 1996-1998 were analysed. Then, the possible relationships between orders to INIST-CNRS and impact of journals on scientific community (from Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) data) were examined. Finally, relationships between document orders to INIST-CNRS and, on the one hand european pharmaceutical journals indexation in bibliographic databases and, on the other hand their possible indexation in the French National Collective Catalogue were studied.

The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05)

Given the large heterogeneity of the World Wide Web, using metadata on the search engines side se... more Given the large heterogeneity of the World Wide Web, using metadata on the search engines side seems to be a useful track for information retrieval. Though, because a manual qualification at the Web scale is not accessible, this track is little followed. We propose a semi-automatic method for propagating metadata. In a first step, homegeneous corpus are extracted. We used in our study the following properties: the authority type, the site type, the information type, and the page type. This first step is realized by a clusterization which uses a similarity measure based on the cocitation frequency between pages. Given the cluster hierarchy, the second step selects a reduced number of documents to be manually qualified and propagates the given metadata values to the other documents belonging to the same cluster. A qualitative evaluation and a preliminary study about the scalability of this method are presented.

Thérapie, 2007

Objectifs. Etudier la corrélation entre la commande d'articles à l'INIST-CNRS et leurs citations ... more Objectifs. Etudier la corrélation entre la commande d'articles à l'INIST-CNRS et leurs citations pour 89 revues de pharmacologie et pharmacie sur la période 1992-2004. Etudier l'influence de l'arrivée de la version électronique des revues. Méthodes. Analyse des cartes de corrélation commandes-citations des 89 revues sur 13 ans. Constitution de quatre groupes de revues. Résultats. Les quatre groupes comportent respectivement 19, 16, 47 et 7 revues allant des revues les plus commandées et citées (les plus chères et anciennes) aux revues les moins commandées et citées. Leurs caractéristiques sont analysées en tenant compte de leur évolution sur 1992-2004. La revue Thérapie fait partie du groupe des revues très commandées mais moins citées. Conclusion. La corrélation entre commandes et citations diminue au cours du temps. Elle est influencée par l'arrivée de la version électronique des revues.