e.r. prakasan anil sagar anil kumar v.l. kalyane and vijai kumar by scientific information resource...
TRANSCRIPT
E.R. Prakasan
Anil Sagar
Anil Kumar
V.L. Kalyane
and
Vijai Kumar
byby
Scientific Information Resource DivisionScientific Information Resource DivisionKnowledge Management GroupKnowledge Management GroupBhabha Atomic Research CentreBhabha Atomic Research Centre
Trombay, Mumbai – 400 085Trombay, Mumbai – 400 085
04/20/23 03:08 2Impact of e-print archives
One of the prevalent measures to assess the quality:
04/20/23 03:08 3Impact of e-print archives
Number of citations
Impact Factor =
Number of citations received in the calculating year to the previous
two years articles________________________________________________________
Number of articles published in the previous two years
Number of citations received in the calculating year to the articles
published in the calculating year________________________________________________________
Number of articles published in the calculating year
Immediacy Index =
Two measures based on citations to assess the quality of journals as per Thomson Scientific (Formerly
Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia)
04/20/23 03:08 4Impact of e-print archives
- Eugine Garfield
Started in1991The first of its kind in the world.Brainchild of Paul Ginsparg, a physicist.
Covered fieldsPhysics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics
Operated and funded byCornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution and is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation, USA
Reason for taking for the present studyIt is one of the highly using e-print archive service for current research, breaking scientific discoveries, and keeping up with colleagues by researchers around the world.
Facts about arXiv.org (http://arxiv.org)
1. Astrophysics (astro-ph)
2. Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
3. General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
4. High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
5. High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
6. High Energy Phyics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
7. High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
8. Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
9. Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
10. Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
11. General Physics (physics)
12. Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
The physics category of arXiv.org is again categorised in to 12 sub-classes as follows:
04/20/23 03:08 7Impact of e-print archives
Number of submissions to the physics sub-categories of Arxiv.org from 2003-2007
04/20/23 03:08 Impact of e-print archives 8
Year-wise percentage growth of total number of submissions to arXiv.org
during 2002-2006 and citations as per Science Citation Index
04/20/23 03:08 Impact of e-print archives 9
Impact Factors of the Physics Classes of arXiv.org calculated for the year 2007
Current Science, high-impact factor journal of India has only an Impact Factor 0.8 as per Journal Citation Reports-2007
Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) 0.63
High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) 0.56
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) 0.53
High Energy Phyics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) 0.45
High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) 0.38
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) 0.35
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) 0.24
Quantum Physics (quant-ph) 0.23
Astrophysics (astro-ph) 0.18
Condensed Matter (cond-mat) 0.17
Mathematical Physics (math-ph) 0.11
General Physics (physics) 0.06
04/20/23 03:08 Impact of e-print archives 10
Immediacy Indices of the Physics Classes of arXiv.org calculated for the year 2007
High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) 0.18
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) 0.12
General Physics (physics) 0.11
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) 0.10
Mathematical Physics (math-ph) 0.10
High Energy Phyics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) 0.08
Quantum Physics (quant-ph) 0.08
Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) 0.07
Astrophysics (astro-ph) 0.06
Condensed Matter (cond-mat) 0.06
High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) 0.01
Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) 0.01
04/20/23 03:08Impact of e-print archives 11
CONCLUDING REMARKS
.The study reveal that e-print archives have become the first choice of many researchers like journal articles for their R&D activities.
E-Print archives certainly compete with journals articles in terms of usage.
The impact may go up if the study could have used other citation trackers like ‘Google Scholar’, ‘Citebase’, ‘Citeseer’, and the databases like ‘Scopus’ etc.
04/20/23 03:08 Impact of e-print archives 12
CONCLUDING REMARKS (continued….)
.As a library professional we can certainly rely on e-print archives for the requirements of our clients.
The present trend of using open institutional repositories is very appreciable.
Ultimately both researchers and library professionals enjoy the free access of information and knowledge.
Thanks one and all