Scientometrics
Volume/Issue:
Volume 56: Issue 2
More reprint requests, more citations?
Author:
Joost Drenth University Medical Center St. Radboud Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology P.O. Box 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands

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Pages:
283–286
Online Publication Date:
13 Aug 2006
Publication Date:
01 Feb 2003
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1021975313347
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Abstract  

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 < 0.005). Articles that received most reprint requests are cited more often.

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Scientometrics
Print ISSN:
0138-9130
Online ISSN:
1588-2861

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Scientometrics
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