Yves Gingras

Yves Gingras is a professor in the Department of History at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he has taught since 1989. He holds a master’s degree in physics from Université Laval and earned a doctorate in the history and sociopolitics of science from the University of Montreal in 1984. In 1997, he co-founded UQAM’s Observatoire des sciences et des technologies, where he serves as scientific director.

Gingras’s research examines the history and sociology of science, including the development of scientific disciplines, the internationalization of research, and the use of bibliometric indicators in research evaluation. His books include Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: Uses and Abuses, Science and Religion: An Impossible Dialogue, and Sociologie des sciences.