Thank you Arif. I have read the article this afternoon (3 January) and will
download and look through your thesis asap.
Â
However I feel compelled to re-emphasize to the list that I am not looking for
an estimate of how many articles are published annually, or ever. The first of
those pieces
Arthur,
There is far more difficulty in counting researchers than in counting
articles. The problem is the inherent ambiguity in the term "researcher."
Who qualifies? How do you tell the difference between research and
development? What do you do about all the support staff (such as the
technic
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Les A Carr
> Date: January 3, 2012 11:24:40 AM EST
> Subject: Re: Mendeley users
>
> ...I did do a couple of analyses of Mendeley effectiveness for OA about 12
> months ago.
> You can see my writeups here:
>
> http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2011/06/mendeley
On 2012-01-03, at 1:01 PM, Les Carr wrote:
>> ...Mendley is not any more successful in providing OA than repositories
That's UNMANDATED repositories, of course.
MANDATED repositories are far more successful than either Mendeley or
unmandated repositories:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/uploads
Arthur,
Great work. Just trying to save you some time. Here's what I found after
working on it for about 2 years.
- # of researchers in the world is reported by UN data in the Science Report.Â
- That figure directly relates to the number of journal titles which relates
directly to the number o
Dear all:
The deadline for responding to the White House RFI on OA to US
federally funded research has been extended to January 12.
http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from
Please do
I would like to ask a counting question since all of this is based on good
counting
and a great deal of faith is placed on the the counters. Even the US census
knows the issues with doing this and resorts to capture/recapture methods
to get things right.
Counting papers should be rather straightf
ce of different national
styles? It is even difficult to get one number for PhD granting
universities in the US, and as for India and China @$#!
Arthur Sale
University of Tasmania, Australia
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Arthur,
There is far more difficulty in counting researchers than in counting
articles. The problem is the inherent ambiguity in the term "researcher."
Who qualifies? How do you tell the difference between research and
development? What do you do about all the support staff (such as the
technic
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Les A Carr
> Date: January 3, 2012 11:24:40 AM EST
> Subject: Re: Mendeley users
>
> ...I did do a couple of analyses of Mendeley effectiveness for OA about 12
> months ago.
> You can see my writeups here:
>
> http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2011/06/mendeley
On 2012-01-03, at 1:01 PM, Les Carr wrote:
>> ...Mendley is not any more successful in providing OA than repositories
That's UNMANDATED repositories, of course.
MANDATED repositories are far more successful than either Mendeley or
unmandated repositories:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/uploads
Shen Yang, as reported by Ding Jie, estimated for China alone "30 million
teachers, lecturers, students, technicians and researchers seeking publication".
from: SciDevNet
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/science-paper-trade-booms-in-china-1.html
Heather Morrison, MLIS
Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fras
es? It is even difficult to get one number for PhD granting universities
in the US, and as for India and China @$#!
Arthur Sale
University of Tasmania, Australia
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Dear all:
The deadline for responding to the White House RFI on OA to US
federally funded research has been extended to January 12.
http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from
Please do
then that implies 1 x 1000 = 10,000,000
> researchers.
>
>
>
> That narrows the estimate, rough as it is, to
>
> 1.1M < no of researchers < 10M
>
> I can live with this, as it is only one power of ten (order of magnitude)
> between the two bounds. The upper limit is around 0.2% of the world's
> population.
>
>
>
> Another tactic is to try to estimate the number of people whose name
> appeared in an author list in the last decade. Disambiguation of names rears
> its ugly head. This will also include many non-researchers in big labs, some
> of them will be dead, and there will be new researchers who have just not yet
> published, but I am looking for ball-park figures, not pinpoint accuracy. I
> haven't done this work yet.
>
>
>
> Can we do better than these estimates, in the face of different national
> styles? It is even difficult to get one number for PhD granting universities
> in the US, and as for India and China @$#!
>
>
>
> Arthur Sale
>
> University of Tasmania, Australia
>
>
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