tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12960760.post6634252636263832704..comments2024-01-30T11:55:39.144+00:00Comments on The Parachute: They’re changing a clause, and even some laws, yet everything stays the way it was.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12960760.post-42337883284273964282012-02-25T13:29:50.485+00:002012-02-25T13:29:50.485+00:00Jan, you asked, "Yet a good portion of articl...Jan, you asked, "Yet a good portion of articles in arXiv – quite possibly the majority, does anyone have the numbers? – are subsequently submitted to journals and formally ‘published’."<br /><br />I came across <a href="http://www.slis.keio.ac.jp/~mine/publication/lis61.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> where the percentage of papers in arXiv subsequently published in scholarly journals was apparently found to be about half (47.1%). Haven’t been able to track down the full article to check methodology and other details but passing on in case of use. <br /><br />You might also be interested in a <a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/06/17/physics-papers-and-the-arxiv/" rel="nofollow">post</a> by Phil Davis on the Scholarly Kitchen 17 June 2009, where he reported on a 2009 CSE meeting presentation looking at published physics papers and seeing how many had been a preprint in arXiV - the percentage of research articles deposited to arXiv varied by physics subfield. The links there are broken, but you can find Tim Ingoldsby’s (AIP) presentation 'Physics Journals and the arXiv: What is Myth and What is Reality?' <a href="http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/files/presentations/2009/Ingoldsby.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />As an aside, it seems that gaming goes on even in arXiv. Ginsparg mentions this in an <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v476/n7359/full/476145a.html" rel="nofollow">article</a> reflecting on arXiv last year, its 20th anniversary, saying "On arXiv, we have seen some of the unintended effects of an entire global research community ingesting the same information from the same interface on a daily basis. The order in which new preprint submissions are displayed in the daily alert, if only for a single day, strongly affects the readership on that day and leaves a measurable trace in the citation record fully six years later2, 3. Some researchers, wise to this, time their submissions to arrive just after the daily afternoon deadline to maximize their prominence in the next day's mailing. "Irene Hames (@irenehames)http://uk.linkedin.com/in/irenehamesnoreply@blogger.com