On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Greg Kuperberg wrote:
> I believe that accelerated,
> stable citation is the single biggest strength of the arXiv over the
> alternatives.
For data on this, see the following:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/img009.gif
This shows the shorter and shorter time until the first (and last,
for all but the high impact papers) citation peak is reached:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/img011.gif
This shows the usual publication lag, and the cross-over in the
version cited (from the preprint to the postprint):
More data are available at:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Digitometrics/index.htm
http://opcit.eprints.org/tdb198/opcit/
and
http://opcit.eprints.org/ijh198/
For the record, I do not share Greg's opinion that this effect, splendid
though it is, is anywhere NEAR being self-archiving's greatest
strength. There are much bigger and benefits:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/science.htm
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