Larivière, V., Macaluso, B., Milojević, S., Sugimoto, C. R., & Thelwall, M. (2012). Of caterpillars and butterflies: The life and afterlife of an arxiv e-print. Paper presented at Altmetrics12, An ACM Web Science Conference 2012 Workshop.
Since its creation by Paul Ginsparg in 1991, arXiv has become central to the diffusion of research in a number of fields—most notably in physics, mathematics, and computer science. Previous researchers have studied aspects of this successful repository focusing on use (Brown, 2001), ordering and citation rates (Haque & Ginsparg, 2009), coexistence of e-prints and journals (Henneken et al., 2007) and the effect of arXiv on citation rates (Moed, 2007). However, previous literature has failed to comprehensively integrate data from arXiv and Web of Science (WoS) in order to enhance our understanding of the new ecology of scholarly communication. This paper uses combined data to investigate publication delays, aging characteristics and scientific impact of arXiv e-prints and their published alter egos on the entire database and a series of micro-analyses on the astrophysics domain.
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