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Eyeballs on science: Impact is not just citations, but how big is readership?

2017-05-11

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A full evaluation of the impact of scientific publications needs to count readers who don’t generate citations. But this is very difficult to do. I set up a scholarly foraging experiment to try to estimate readership for my own body of work: a personal web site with ‘reprint’ pdf files available for downloading and a web statistics program engaged to count these downloads. (I made the site topically rather than au...

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Literature Corpus work: 9e7ea56f-f031-53ca-833a-4cc25fed27d1
DOI: 10.1101/136689

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