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Persistent value of older scientific journal articles

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  • Aaron Lercher

    (Louisiana State University)

  • Lawrence Smolinsky

    (Louisiana State University)

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This paper discusses how to translate the well-confirmed phenomenon of increasing citation of older scientific literature into an argument for the persistent citation impact of older scientific journal articles. Since libraries purchase or subscribe to scientific journal articles in packages consisting of journal-years, the citation impact of past journal-years needs to be assessed separately from that of recent years. The simple and flexible (Bouabid in Scientometrics 88:199–211, 2011. doi: 10.1007/s11192-011-0370-5 ) model, as applied to particular journal-years, is applied and assessed.

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  • Aaron Lercher & Lawrence Smolinsky, 2016. "Persistent value of older scientific journal articles," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 108(3), pages 1205-1220, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:108:y:2016:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-016-2011-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-2011-5
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