Fathoming Publication Strategies

摘要

While many studies have tracked numbers of citations after publication, such studies cannot reveal how prepublication dynamics affects subsequent citation history. Calcagno et al. (p. 1065, published online 11 October) surveyed the submission history of more than 80,000 articles published in 16 fields of biology in 2006-2008 and constructed a social network based on manuscript flows among scientific journals.