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How far does scientific community look back?
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How far does scientific community look back?

Xianwen Wang, Zhi Wang, Wenli Mao, Chen Liu and Xuehang Wang
Journal of informetrics, v 8(3), pp 562-568
Jul 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.04.009
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7331View
SubmittedOpen Access (License Unspecified),  Open

Abstract

Altmertics Article usage Download Dynamic usage data Lifetime of scientific literature Static usage data
•Papers published in recent four years have many more downloads than older articles.•Classic papers are still being downloaded frequently even many years after their publication.•Social media may reboot the attention of old scientific literature in a short time. How does the published scientific literature used by scientific community? Many previous studies make analysis on the static usage data. In this research, we propose the concept of dynamic usage data. Based on the platform of realtime.springer.com, we have been monitoring and recording the dynamic usage data of Scientometrics articles round the clock. Our analysis find that papers published in recent four years have many more downloads than papers published four years ago. According to our quantitative calculation, papers downloaded on one day have an average lifetime of 4.1 years approximately. Classic papers are still being downloaded frequently even long after their publication. Additionally, we find that social media may reboot the attention of old scientific literature in a short time.

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