Hi both, Firstly, good idea to look into this, Karl. A search on google scholar with the terms 'perl pdl' produces quite a few more hits, also in journals outside of astro.
It would probably be nice to come up with a few approaches to calculate some metrics from this and similar info. Maybe somebody really clever can come up with a perl/pdl script to automatically 'scrape' the info from the relevant servers? In any case, a nice compilation of findings would clearly be useful for future reference. Cheers, CS On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 9:51 AM, Piero Ranalli wrote: > 2015-02-11 9:04 GMT+02:00, Karl Glazebrook <kglazebr...@swin.edu.au > (mailto:kglazebr...@swin.edu.au)>: > > 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 (http://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 > Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu (mailto:Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu) > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > >
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