Saturday, April 19, 2014

Nobody Reads Most Published Scholarly Articles

About 1.8 million scholarly articles and scientific papers are published each year in 28,000 journals.  As many as half of these articles are not read by anyone beyond the author and the journal's editor, and 90 percent are not cited in other papers.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/half-academic-studies-are-never-read-more-three-people-180950222/

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