[Bioperl-l] 'Papers'

Jeffrey Chang jchang@smi.stanford.edu
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 01:39:23 -0800


On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:45:58AM +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
> Firstly the citation metrics are all skewed toward journals which do
> not allow free redistribution of the papers.

Why is this?  I would have expected that freely redistributed papers
would have a slight edge in citations, because they're more
accessable.  I know that not being able to find a paper in electronic
format is highly discouraging for me, because it means I'll have to go
to the, gulp, library...

Jeff