The changing scholarly communication landscape: An international survey of senior researchers

Learned Publishing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-55

  Rowlands, Ian ^a   Nicholas, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 31544447741     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/095315106775122493     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Rowlands, I., Nicholas D., and Huntington, P. Scholarly communication in the digital environment: what do authors want? Learned Publishing 2004:17(4) Oct, 261-73. URL: www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/alpsp/09531513/v17n4/s2/p261
2. See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/ciber-pa-report.pdf
3. At http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/ciber_2005_survey_final.pdf
4. 2 × 0.60), and so on. According to Lotka's Law of scientific productivity, less than 6% of the authors in a field will produce more than 10 articles.
5. This finding needs to be interpreted with a great deal of caution: parallel research by Elsevier suggests that up to 65% of authors may confuse the concept of 'open access' journals with toll journals that are freely available to them at the point of use.