Re: Number of pre-prints relative to journal literature?

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_coglit.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:11:50 +0000

> I am curious about the statistics concerning the number of e-prints relative
> to the journal literature. Harnad repeatedly mentions that LANL archive
> contains 40% of the journal literature at present and compares it to 20% of
> the math archive.

Here's one way to estimate it for the physics arXiv: percentage of
current citations by papers in within arXiv not papers not within
arXiv (courtesy of Les Carr, Zhuoan Jiao, Tim Brody & Ian Hickmen):

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/Tim/sld003.htm

There are other ways to estimate it too. See:

http://opcit.eprints.org/ijh198/
http://opcit.eprints.org/tdb198/opcit/

For an estimate of what percentage of the current maths literature is
in the maths arXiv, I will let Greg Kuperberg reply.

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