Early citation advantage?

[Stevan Harnad]

Here is the consistent decrease in citation latency Tim Brody first  
reported in 2000:
http://opcit.eprints.org/tdb198/opcit/citationage/

It is published in:
Brody, T., Harnad, S. and Carr, L. (2006) Earlier Web Usage  
Statistics as Predictors of Later Citation Impact. Journal of the  
American Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)  
57(8) pp. 1060-1072. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10713/

as well as in Tim's doctoral dissertation.

Stevan Harnad


On 22-Jun-06, at 3:26 PM, Frank Havemann wrote:

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> Dear collegues,
>
> the use of eprints can significantly accelerate the scientific  
> communication.
> This was demonstrated by me with a small sample of articles in  
> theoretical
> High Energy Physics published 1998 and 1999 in Physical Review D.  
> Typically
> the eprints in this sample are available eight months before the  
> printed
> issue is published. Three quarters of them are cited in eprints  
> authored by
> other researchers before the journal issue appears (among them all  
> highly
> cited eprints).
>
> My results are until now only published in German. But the figures  
> are in
> English:
> http://www.ib.hu-berlin.de/~fhavem/E-prints.pdf
>
> Frank Havemann
>
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> Ian Rowlands:
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>> Several recent studies (e.g. Thomson Scientific, Eysenbach) have  
>> indicated
>> that open access articles are more likely to be cited sooner than  
>> tolled
>> access articles.  This is an argument that, on the face of it,  
>> provides a
>> powerful argument for open access: it speeds up scientific  
>> workflow.  Can
>> anyone supply a testable hypothesis for this?  I can quite easily
>> understand how open access leads to MORE use, thus higher  
>> citation.  But
>> speedier citation?  What are the plausible cause and effect  
>> arguments here?
>>
>> Ian Rowlands
>> UCL Centre for Publishing
>> www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk

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