Blogging about a paper causes a large increase in the number of abstract views and downloads in the same month: an average impact of an extra 70-95 abstract views in the case of Aid Watch and Blattman, 135 for Economix, 300 for Marginal Revolution, and 450-470 for Freakonomics and Krugman. These increases are massive compared to the typical abstract views and downloads these papers get- one blog post in Freakonomics is equivalent to 3 years of abstract views! However, only a minority of readers click through – we estimate 1-2% of readers of the more popular blogs click on the links to view the abstracts, and 4% on a blog like Chris Blattman that likely has a more specialized (research-focused) readership. There is some spillover of reads into the next month (not everyone reads a blog post the day it is produced), and no evidence that abstract views and downloads lead blog posts.
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i’m pretty sure i went to grad school solely for the access to academic articles.
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i think i could do pretty similar work that i was doing in the last two years of my studies if i still had access to...
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bossyfemme reblogged this from abbyjean and added:
Not surprising that folks don’t tend to read further than abstracts since it usually costs serious $$ to access journals...
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barthel said:
Hahaha oh god. 450-470?
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