Does the arXiv lead to higher citations and reduced publisher downloads for mathematics articles?
Does the arXiv lead to higher citations and reduced publisher downloads for mathematics articles?
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-007-1661
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发表时间：
2007-05-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Fromerth, Michael J.
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作者：
Davis, Philip M.;Fromerth, Michael J.
对1997年至2005年发表在四种数学期刊上的2765篇文章的分析表明，在arXiv中存放的文章比非存放的文章平均多引用35%（每篇文章约1.1次引用的优势），这种差异在高引用文章中最为明显。开放获取，早期视图，和质量差异被视为解释引文优势的三个非排他性假设。几乎没有人支持普遍的开放近用解释，也没有经验支持早期观点。有一些推理支持的质量差异带来了更高的引用文章被存放在arXiv。尽管有引用优势，但arXiv存放的文章在出版后的近两年里，从出版商网站上下载的次数减少了23%（每篇文章的下载次数减少了10次）。数据表明，arXiv和出版商的网站可能满足读者的不同功能需求。
An analysis of 2, 765 articles published in four math journals from 1997 to 2005 indicate that articles deposited in the arXiv received 35% more citations on average than non-deposited articles (an advantage of about 1.1 citations per article), and that this difference was most pronounced for highly-cited articles. Open Access, Early View, and Quality Differential were examined as three non-exclusive postulates for explaining the citation advantage. There was little support for a universal Open Access explanation, and no empirical support for Early View. There was some inferential support for a Quality Differential brought about by more highly-citable articles being deposited in the arXiv. In spite of their citation advantage, arXiv-deposited articles received 23% fewer downloads from the publisher's website (about 10 fewer downloads per article) in all but the most recent two years after publication. The data suggest that arXiv and the publisher's website may be fulfilling distinct functional needs of the reader.