The half-life phenomenon: Eroding citations in journals

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Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 115-123

  Bugeja, Michael ^a   Dimitrova, Daniela V ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33645762064     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: 15411095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J123v49n03_10     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Richard Harris, "Looking at Planets Beyond the Solar System," National Public Radio's Morning Edition; retrieved May 3, 2005, from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyld=4556714.
2. Scott Carlson, "Scholars Note Decay of Citations to Online References," The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 2005, p. A30.
3. Carlson, p. A30.
4. "Problems Using the Web," 1997. Retrieved May 3, 2005, from http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1997-10/graphs/use/ Problems_Using_the_Web.html
5. Drake A. Dellavalie and Graber, M., Heilig, L., Hester, E., Kuntzman, J., & Schilling, L., "Going, going, gone: Lost Internet references," Science, October 2003, pp. 787-788.
6. Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A curious history (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard, 1997), p. 13.
7. Anthony Grafton, grafton@.Princeton.EDU, "Question about the Footnote from Iowa State," 23 February 2005, personal e-mail to Michael Bugeja, 〈bugeja@iastate.edu〉 (23 February 2005).
8. Grafton, "Question about the Footnote from Iowa State."
9. Grafton, pp. 4-5.