Positional effects on citation and readership in arXiv

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2203-2218

  Haque, Asif Ul ^a   Ginsparg, Paul ^a  

^a Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITATION IMPACT; IMPACT METRICS; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; NEW MATERIAL; SELF-PROMOTIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; TECHNICAL WRITING; VISIBILITY;

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EID: 70349914259     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21166     Document Type: Article

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