Sunday October 28, www.eprints.org Cross-Discipline Self-Archiving through Distributed Archives … or changing this... arXiv submission rates - linear growth only 30% of citations to papers deposited in arXiv
Sunday October 28, www.eprints.org … into this... Exponential growth in archiving to catch up with paper-based research 100% of papers archived, in all disciplines
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Sunday October 28, www.eprints.org The Global Research Database
Sunday October 28, www.eprints.org Citation Linking & Scientometric Analysis
Sunday October 28, www.eprints.org Citation-ranked Searches
Number of times a Paper is Read Average of 10 hits per paper per year from the UK mirror, for the papers first year. 140 hits per paper per year assuming all 14 mirrors have equal traffic. The arXiv main site receives 14.5 times as many hits as the UK mirror Estimated 145 hits per paper per year on the main site. Estimated total of nearly 300 hits per paper per year.
Are papers downloaded then cited or cited then downloaded?(2) If all these time differences are plotted the above graph is produced.
Citation Latencies The raw data show that the latency of the citation peak has been reducing over the period of the archive
The “New Paper Rush” Users subscribe to an alerting service that informs them of new papers.
Article Embryology Papers with a journal reference [J-R] cross papers without a J-R at an age of 13 months, suggesting a time difference of 13 months between pre-print and post-print
Paper Impact The papers were split into three sets based on the number of citations to them. There are an equal number of citations to the papers in the low, medium and high sets.
Author Impact Quartiles High impact authors update more than medium or low High and medium impact authors deposit more papers than low
Citation Quality Papers generally cite papers of like impact ( 2 underway).
Citation Spread A small number of papers receive a very large number of citations
How Paper Impact Effects Usage Higher impact papers have a longer download life expectancy.
What is the correlation between citations and downloads? There is a significant positive correlation between citations and downloads for high impact papers.