Persistent value of older scientific journal articles

Aaron Lercher () and Lawrence Smolinsky ()
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Aaron Lercher: Louisiana State University
Lawrence Smolinsky: Louisiana State University

Scientometrics, 2016, vol. 108, issue 3, No 12, 1205-1220

Abstract: Abstract This paper discusses how to translate the well-confirmed phenomenon of increasing citation of older scientific literature into an argument for the persistent citation impact of older scientific journal articles. Since libraries purchase or subscribe to scientific journal articles in packages consisting of journal-years, the citation impact of past journal-years needs to be assessed separately from that of recent years. The simple and flexible (Bouabid in Scientometrics 88:199–211, 2011. doi: 10.1007/s11192-011-0370-5 ) model, as applied to particular journal-years, is applied and assessed.

Keywords: Evaluative citation analysis; Citation distribution; Journals; Diachronous distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2011-5

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