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03 Feb 09
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as more journals become available online, fewer articles are being cited in the reference lists of the research papers published within them
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articles that do get a mention tend to have been recently published themselves
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Far from growing longer, the long tail is being docked.
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the average age of the articles cited
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for every additional year of back-issues of a journal available online, the average age of the articles cited from that journal fell by a month
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ndexing works by titles and authors alone, as happened with printed journals, forced readers to cast at least a cursory glance at work not immediately related to their own
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unexpected gems
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It is not yet clear whether this change is for good or ill.
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no relevant paper is likely to go unread
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06 Dec 08
Pranesh PrakashArticle on a paper arguing that the web is narrowing scientists' expertise.
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04 Sep 08
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25 Aug 08
meanderinglaraJames Evans "...has found that as more journals become available online, fewer articles are being cited in the reference lists of the research papers published within them. Moreover, those articles that do get a mention tend to have been recently publishe
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21 Aug 08
Emma CoonanArticle from Economist online suggesting that "the long tail is being docked".
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13 Aug 08
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06 Aug 08
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28 Jul 08
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He has found that as more journals become available online, fewer articles are being cited in the reference lists of the research papers published within them. Moreover, those articles that do get a mention tend to have been recently published themselves.
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Electronic searching means that no relevant paper is likely to go unread, but narrowing the definition of “relevance” risks reducing the cross-fertilisation of ideas that sometimes leads to big, unexpected advances.
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Indeed, he predicts that for the average journal today, five extra years’ worth of online availability will cause a precipitous drop in the number of articles receiving one or more citations—from 600 to 200 a year. Rather than measuring the length of the tail, then, it seems that modern science is actually focusing on a tiny bit of it.
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21 Jul 08
Gosia StergiosAs more journals become available online, fewer articles are being cited in the reference lists of the research papers published within them. Those articles that do get a mention tend to have been recently published themselves.
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20 Jul 08
Is the web narrowing scientists' expertise? Sociologist James Evans' work identifies that as more journals become available online, dramatically fewer articles are being cited in the research papers within them. "Rather than measuring the length of the ta
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19 Jul 08
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