Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact
Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact
Abstract: The use of citation counts to assess the impact of research articles is well established. However, the citation impact of an article can only be measured several years after it has been published. As research articles are increasingly accessed through the Web, the number of times an article is downloaded can be instantly recorded and counted. One would expect the number of times an article is read to be related both to the number of times it is cited and to how old the article is. This paper analyses how short-term Web usage impact predicts medium-term citation impact. The physics e-print archive -- arXiv.org -- is used to test this.
open access, research impact, self-archiving, journal publication, downloads, citations
1060-1072
Brody, Tim
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Harnad, Stevan
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Carr, Les
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2006
Brody, Tim
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Harnad, Stevan
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Carr, Les
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Brody, Tim, Harnad, Stevan and Carr, Les
(2006)
Earlier Web Usage Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact.
Journal of the American Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 57 (8), .
Abstract
Abstract: The use of citation counts to assess the impact of research articles is well established. However, the citation impact of an article can only be measured several years after it has been published. As research articles are increasingly accessed through the Web, the number of times an article is downloaded can be instantly recorded and counted. One would expect the number of times an article is read to be related both to the number of times it is cited and to how old the article is. This paper analyses how short-term Web usage impact predicts medium-term citation impact. The physics e-print archive -- arXiv.org -- is used to test this.
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Published date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1002/asi.20373
Keywords:
open access, research impact, self-archiving, journal publication, downloads, citations
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 260713
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/260713
PURE UUID: 91095922-3181-4ae1-af3e-e351e89b3df8
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Date deposited: 18 May 2005
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48
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Tim Brody
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Stevan Harnad
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