Clicks versus Citations: Click Count as a Metric in High Energy Physics Publishing

Technical Report · Wed Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1017227· OSTI ID:1017227

Bitton, Ayelet

High-energy physicists worldwide rely on online resources such as SPIRES and arXiv to perform gather research and share their own publications. SPIRES is a tool designed to search the literature within high-energy physics, while arXiv provides the actual full-text documents of this literature. In high-energy physics, papers are often ranked according to the number of citations they acquire - meaning the number of times a later paper references the original. This paper investigates the correlation between the number of times a paper is clicked in order to be downloaded and the number of citations it receives following the click. It explores how physicists truly read what they cite.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 1017227
• Report Number(s): SLAC-TN-11-002; TRN: US201113%%701
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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