Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics
<|reference_start|>Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics: In this report we examine the change in citation behavior since the introduction of the arXiv e-print repository (Ginsparg, 2001). It has been observed that papers that initially appear as arXiv e-prints get cited more than papers that do not (Lawrence, 2001; Brody et al., 2004; Schwarz & Kennicutt, 2004; Kurtz et al., 2005a, Metcalfe, 2005). Using the citation statistics from the NASA-Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (ADS; Kurtz et al., 1993, 2000), we confirm the findings from other studies, we examine the average citation rate to e-printed papers in the Astrophysical Journal, and we show that for a number of major astronomy and physics journals the most important papers are submitted to the arXiv e-print repository first.<|reference_end|>
@article{henneken2006effect,
    title={Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics},
    author={Edwin A. Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz, Guenther Eichhorn, Alberto
  Accomazzi, Carolyn Grant, Donna Thompson, Stephen S. Murray},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0604061},
    year={2006},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0604061},
    primaryClass={cs.DL astro-ph}
}