Ok Air-ers - I'm staying out of the data/information/knowledge/wisdom debate - Here's some websites that measure no. of journals which might be a benchmark for other types of information explosion. I personally am not *too* worried about information explosion - but information implosion - where somehow Paris Hilton and other 'high interest' topics come to dominate any internet search in endless loops. However this is an infometric issue - and we've got some good scholars around on these topics - especially those associated with the NIWI group in Amsterdam - any opinions there?
Hi Denise
this web site also came up looks good http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publishing/
There is a nice graph the you can get to from the links on the left "Journal numbers over time"
And the 2006 update of the paper
http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publications/BergstromAndBergstrom06.p...
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