That's interesting. Do you have the reference to hand? Here at CRIC we did a bit or research on users of our online paper series and found not only we people more likely to cite the e-papers that journal papers but they were more likely to search out traditional journal articles by cric authors. The cynic in me sort of presume this was just an anomaly (read people just being nice) :-) Jase -- Dr Jason Rutter (Research Fellow) ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), The University of Manchester, Harold Hankins Building, Booth Street West, Manchester, M13 9QH PH: +44 (0) 161 275 6859 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 7361 http://www.cric.ac.uk/cric/Jason_Rutter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Edmonds" <andyed@surfmind.com> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: RE: [Air-l] discussion on free papers
Have people seen: Online or Invisible? Steve Lawrence, NEC Research Institute
Publications which are available online get cited more (alot more).
Figure 2: Analysis of citation rates within publication venues. The graph shows the distribution of the percentage increase for the average number of citations to online articles compared to offline articles. The analysis covers 1,494 publication venues containing at least 5 online and 5 offline articles. For 90% of venues, online articles are more highly cited on average. On average there are 336% more citations to online articles compared to offline articles published in the same venue [the first, second (median), and third quartiles of the distribution are 58%, 158%, and 361%].
Andy Edmonds Human Factors, Clemson Univ 864-624-9776 http://www.clemson.edu/~kedmond
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