How far does scientific community look back?
Journal of InformetricsPublished 13 May 2014Open access
Xianwen Wang, Zhi Wang, Wenli Mao, Chen Liu
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The analysis find that papers published in recent four years have many more downloads than papers published four years ago and that social media may reboot the attention of old scientific literature in a short time.
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How does the published scientific literature used by scientific community?\nMany previous studies make analysis on the static usage data. In this research,\nwe propose the concept of dynamic usage data. Based on the platform of\nrealtime.springer.com, we have been monitoring and recording the dynamic usage\ndata of Scientometrics articles round the clock. Our analysis find that papers\npublished in recent four years have many more downloads than papers published\nfour years ago. According to our quantitative calculation, papers down-loaded\non one day have an average lifetime of 4.1 years approximately. Classic papers\nare still being downloaded frequently even long after their publication.\nAdditionally, we find that social media may reboot the attention of old\nscientific literature in a short time.\n
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