We present evidence that, in some research fields, research published in journals and reported on the Web may collectively represent different evolutionary stages of the field wit...
The usefulness of online information such as e-publishing and timely notification on the latest scientific or professional news has been widely accepted. However, access to such v...
Despite the fact that electronic publishing is a common activity to scholars, electronic journals are still based in the print model and do not take full advantage of the faciliti...
A key parameter in any discussions about the academic peer reviewed journal system is the number of articles annually published. Several diverging estimates of this parameter have...
Purpose – This paper2 discusses the new scientific search service Google Scholar (GS). This search engine, intended for searching exclusively scholarly documents, will be descri...