More reprint requests, more citations?

Joost P. H. Drenth ()
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Joost P. H. Drenth: University Medical Center St. Radboud

Scientometrics, 2003, vol. 56, issue 2, No 8, 283-286

Abstract: Abstract Reprint requests are commonly used to obtain a copy of an article. This study aims to correlate the number of reprint requests from a 10-year-sample of articles with the number of citations. The database contained 28 articles published in over a 10-year-period (1992-2001). For each separate article the number of citations and and the number of reprint requests were retrieved. In total 303 reprint requests were analysed. Reviews (median 9, range 1 to 95) and original articles (median 8, range 1-36) attracted most reprint requests. There was an excellent correlation between the number of requests and citations to article (two-tailed non-parametric Spearman rank test r = 0.55; 95% confidence interval 0.18-0.78, P

Date: 2003
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