Matthew Wallace

Senior S&T Policy Analyst

Fontaine Building (Gatineau, QC)

CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH - R&D and related scientific activities (RSA) performance measurement; research evaluation and management; reviews of federal and departmental S&T; intellectual property issues; scientific advice on climate change; bibliometrics

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / INTERESTS

Note: I am away on leave until April 2011, pursuing a doctoral degree at the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (www.cirst.uqam.ca).

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Gingras, Y. and M.L. Wallace. 2009. Why it has become more difficult to predict Nobel Prize winners: A bibliometric analysis of nominees and winners of the Chemistry and Physics Prizes (1901-2007). Scientometrics (in press).

Wallace, M.L., V. Larivière and Y. Gingras. 2009. Modeling a century of citation distributions. Journal of Informetrics. 3 (in press).

Wallace, M.L., Y. Gingras and R. Duhon. 2009. A new approach for detecting scientific specialties from raw cocitation networks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(2): 240-246.

Wallace, M.L. and B. Joós. 2008. Microstructure and dynamics of a polymer glass subjected to instantaneous shear strain. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 20(24): 244130.

Wallace, M.L. and B. Joós. 2006. Shear-induced Overaging in a Polymer Glass. Physical Review Letters. 96: 025501

Wallace, M.L., B. Joós and M. Plischke. 2004. The Rigidity Transition in Polymer Melts with van der Waals Interactions. Physical Review E. 70: 041501.