Statistics
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Jan 2009
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 121, No. 875, p. 73-75 (2009)
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Now that all the major astronomical journals are available online and search engines allow astronomers to find pertinent papers regardless of where they are published, do papers in those journals still have a strong tendency to reference papers in the same journals? Current statistics show that all the general astronomical journal papers still have 9% self-referencing, as they did 21 years ago. Equally disturbing is the large decrease (from 41.6% to 22.8%) in the past 21 years in citations to papers outside these eight major ones, even though the others can also be found in electronic searches. o cite papers in their favorite journals is the large decrease (from 41.6% in 1987 to 22.8% in 2008) in the number of references to papers outside these eight major journals. Other journals (Icarus, Solar Physics, Physical Review, etc,) are all available online, so why are authors not finding and citing pertinent papers in them in increased numbers? Apparently the online access to scientific papers has not yet affected how astronomers find pertinent information.
I appreciate the leading questions raised by the referee toward understanding the significance of these data.
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