Research on Preprint Archive as Socio-Technical Interaction Network

本研究的目的是通过调查预印本服务器arXiv的角色和地位，显示从印刷到数字在学术传播中的意义。为了明确arXiv/SPIRES-HEP的年度和总投稿量的增长情况，arXiv/SPIRES-HEP和SPIRES-HEP随后在学术期刊上发表的论文比例及其发表信息，以及arXiv/SPIRES-HEP投稿与期刊发表的年份差异，分析了1969 - 2007年SPIRES-HEP/arXiv投稿的所有论文（约73万篇）。主要发现如下：arXiv的论文随后在学术期刊上发表的比例高于shipress - hep的论文，并且arXiv的论文将在正式发表日期之前更早地存放。

The purpose of this research is to show the significance of transformation from print to digital in scholarly communication by investigating the roles and place of a preprint server, arXiv. In order to clarify 1) the growth in the annual and total number of submitted papers, 2) the percentage of papers in arXiv and SPIRES-HEP subsequently published in scholarly journals and their publication information, and 3) differences of years between submission to arXiv/SPIRES-HEP and publication in journals, all papers (about 730,000) submitted to SPIRES-HEP/arXiv between 1969 and 2007 were analyzed. The main findings are as follows: the percentage of papers in arXiv subsequently published in scholarly journals is higher than papers in SHIPRES-HEP and papers in arXiv will be deposited much earlier before official publication date.