[Bioperl-l] 'Papers'
Jeffrey Chang
jchang@smi.stanford.edu
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 01:39:23 -0800
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:45:58AM +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
> Firstly the citation metrics are all skewed toward journals which do
> not allow free redistribution of the papers.
Why is this? I would have expected that freely redistributed papers
would have a slight edge in citations, because they're more
accessable. I know that not being able to find a paper in electronic
format is highly discouraging for me, because it means I'll have to go
to the, gulp, library...
Jeff