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Electronic access of individual papers in economics: a study

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Title Electronic access of individual papers in economics: a study
 
Creator Asha., B
 
Description 246-258
Examines the electronic access (read) of individual research papers in economics selected randomly from the Repec data
base. Finds similarities and differences in the measure of central tendency and dispersion of two type of reads viz abstract read
and full text read of papers by calculating the rate of read, standard deviation and coefficient of variation. Results indicate
topic-wise difference both in the number of abstract read and full text read. Finds a very high positive correlation between the
monthly abstract read and full text read, also obtains the regression equation. Derives a ratio connecting the per month
abstract read, full text read and citation. Indicate that full text read is a subset of abstract read. Finds that a more read paper
is not correspondingly well cited. Searches for a best-fit relationship between the full text read and citations, and obtains a
tenth degree polynomial but with coefficient of determination being 0.42 only. Concludes that citation is not parameterized by
read. Suggests the need of a social network analysis to identify the parameters of citations.
 
Date 2008-11-18T09:40:39Z
2008-11-18T09:40:39Z
2008-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0972-5423
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2441
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source ALIS Vol.55(3) [September 2008]