2015-02-11 9:04 GMT+02:00, Karl Glazebrook <[email protected]>: > Do we have any estimate of the impact/reach of PDL? > > Has anyone tried a paper count?
Hi if you mean citations to Glazebrook & Economou 1997, The Perl Journal, 5, 5, than the Thomson-Reuters Web of science is returning a total of 14 citations, only 13 of which however have a record in their "Web of science core collections". All these papers are in astrophysics, which looks a bit suspect, but I can't find any way to select other fields. Three more citations appear when searching for Dr Dobb's journal (one paper on optics, two in bioinformatics). Besides the PDL paper, people may just be citing the PDL website. The NASA ADS database returns 47 records with an occurrence of "pdl.perl.org" in the full text. I think the main difficulty is that neither the Perl Journal, nor Dr Dobb's (which published the same article, is it correct?) are indexed, so there not a proper record in the databases for the PDL paper. This means that if search for the PDL paper, you won't find it; but you can see it listed in the references list of a paper citing it. So in Web of science you must find one paper citing PDL, get the references, find PDL in the list, and ask for citations of that -- that's how I did. Piero _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
