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            The Public-Access Computer Systems Review

Volume 7, Number 5 (1996)                          ISSN 1048-6542
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REFEREED ARTICLES

Stephen P. Harter, The Impact of Electronic Journals on Scholarly
Communication: A Citation Analysis

     This article reports hard empirical data on the impact of
     the first wave of e-journals on the scholarly communities
     they serve.  A citation analysis was conducted for 39
     scholarly journals that began electronic publication no
     later than 1993.  Citation data for these journals were
     tabulated and analyzed.  For journals that publish both
     print and electronic versions, citations to articles
     published prior to parallel publication were eliminated.
     The eight most highly cited e-journals were identified.
     Citation and publication data for three high ranking
     e-journals in the study were compared to similar data for
     print journals in the same fields.  The seven most highly
     cited articles from the e-journals in the study were
     determined.

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Associate Editor, Columns

Leslie Dillon, OCLC

Associate Editor, Communications

Dana Rooks, University of Houston

Associate Editor, Production

Ann Thornton, New York Public Library

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Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin
George H. Brett II
Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago
Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc.
Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group
Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath
Pat Ensor, University of Houston
Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz
Charles Hildreth, University of Oklahoma
Ronald Larsen, University of Maryland
Clifford Lynch, Division of Library Automation, University of
     California
David R. McDonald, Tufts University
R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego
Paul Evan Peters, Coalition for Networked Information
Mike Ridley, University of Guelph
Peggy Seiden, Skidmore College
Peter Stone
John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University

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