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More reprint requests, more citations?

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  • Joost P. H. Drenth

    (University Medical Center St. Radboud)

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Reprint requests are commonly used to obtain a copy of an article. This study aims to correlate the number of reprint requests from a 10-year-sample of articles with the number of citations. The database contained 28 articles published in over a 10-year-period (1992-2001). For each separate article the number of citations and and the number of reprint requests were retrieved. In total 303 reprint requests were analysed. Reviews (median 9, range 1 to 95) and original articles (median 8, range 1-36) attracted most reprint requests. There was an excellent correlation between the number of requests and citations to article (two-tailed non-parametric Spearman rank test r = 0.55; 95% confidence interval 0.18-0.78, P

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  • Joost P. H. Drenth, 2003. "More reprint requests, more citations?," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 56(2), pages 283-286, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:56:y:2003:i:2:d:10.1023_a:1021975313347
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1021975313347
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