Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics
摘要
In this report we examine the change in citation behavior since the introduction of the arXiv e-print repository (Ginsparg, 2001). It has been observed that papers that initially appear as arXiv e-prints get cited more than papers that do not (Lawrence, 2001; Brody et al., 2004; Schwarz & Kennicutt, 2004; Kurtz et al., 2005a, Metcalfe, 2005). Using the citation statistics from the NASA-Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (ADS; Kurtz et al., 1993, 2000), we confirm the findings from other studies, we examine the average citation rate to e-printed papers in the Astrophysical Journal, and we show that for a number of major astronomy and physics journals the most important papers are submitted to the arXiv e-print repository first.
引用
@article{arxiv.cs/0604061,
title = {Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics},
author = {Edwin A. Henneken and Michael J. Kurtz and Guenther Eichhorn and Alberto Accomazzi and Carolyn Grant and Donna Thompson and Stephen S. Murray},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0604061},
year = {2007}
}
备注
Submitted to the Journal of Electronic Publishing. 11 pages with 5 figures