Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics

Details Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics

2006-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604061v2

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Submitted to the Journal of Electronic Publishing. 11 pages with 5 figures

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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.

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