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Cardiovascular Research 2005 65(1):1-5; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.11.014
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Copyright © 2004, European Society of Cardiology

Which papers are most interesting to the readers of Cardiovascular Research? Information from download monitoring

David Garcia-Dorado, Klaus-Dieter Schlüter, Elizabeth A. Martinson* and Hans Michael Piper

Cardiovascular Research Editorial Office, Aulweg 129, D-35392 Giessen, Germany Email address: CVR@physiologie.med.uni-giessen.de

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +49 641 99 47 242; fax: +49 641 99 47 209.

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Measuring the diffusion and impact of scientific papers is a difficult task with many potential applications. In recent years, download monitoring has emerged as a new tool that can help serve this purpose.

Currently, virtually all of the most prominent scientific journals have electronic versions that may be accessed over the Internet, and while journals that are exclusively electronic still have a very limited impact no matter how it is measured, electronic access has become an increasingly important method of diffusion of scientific papers as compared to classical, mail-distributed printed issues.

Monitoring of downloads permits an estimation of the number of readers attracted by an individual article, something that was not possible when diffusion was based only on hard-copy mailing. It is clear that simply reading an article is different from finding new and useful information in it that may contribute to subsequent scientific production, which is what the ISI . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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