?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Minimum+impact+and+immediacy+of+citations+to+physics+open%0Aarchives+of+arXiv.org%3A+Science+Citation+Index+based+reports&rft.creator=Prakasan%2C+E.+R.&rft.creator=Anil+Sagar%2C+*&rft.creator=Kalyane%2C+V.+L.&rft.creator=Anil+Kumar%2C+*&rft.creator=Harnad%2C+Stevan&rft.subject=Archives&rft.description=The+present+work+has+calculated+the+minimum+Open+Archive+Impact+Factors+and+Open+Archive+Immediacy+Index+for+the+Physics+Classes+of+arXiv.org+as+calculated+for+traditional+journals+in+Journal+Citation+Reports+of+the+Institute+of+Scientific+Information+using+Science+Citation+Index+without+the+citation+by+the+classes+itself.+The+calculated+Impact%0AFactors+reveal+that+High-Energy+Physics+classes+of+arXiv.org+(%E2%80%98hep-th%E2%80%99%2C+%E2%80%98hep-lat%E2%80%99%2C+%E2%80%98hep-ex%E2%80%99%2C+and+%E2%80%98hep-ph%E2%80%99)+have+made+more+impact+on+the+scientific+community+than+any+other+classes+except+%E2%80%98nucl-ex%E2%80%99.+The+Impact+Factors+for+the+year+2003+are%3A+%E2%80%98hep-th%E2%80%99+(0.999)%2C+%E2%80%98nucl-ex%E2%80%99+(0.806)%2C+%E2%80%98hep-lat%E2%80%99+(0.766)%2C+%E2%80%98hep-ex%E2%80%99+(0.73)%2C+%E2%80%98hep-ph%E2%80%99+(0.719)%2C+%E2%80%98nucl-th%E2%80%99+(0.338)%2C+%E2%80%98quant-ph%E2%80%99+(0.334)%2C+%E2%80%98cond-mat%E2%80%99+(0.313)%2C+%E2%80%98astro-ph%E2%80%99+(0.195)%2C+%E2%80%98math-ph%E2%80%99+(0.162)%2C+%E2%80%98physics%E2%80%99%0A(0.061)%2C+and+%E2%80%98gr-qc%E2%80%99+(0.002).+If+the+period+for+getting+the+citations+to+the+open+archive+classes+is+considered+one+year+as+against+two+years+for+journal+articles%2C+the+rank+of+the+classes+is+the+same.+The+immediacy+of+citing+the+Open+Archives+is+also+high+for+the+High-Energy+Physics+classes.+The+Immediacy+Indexes+for+the+year+2003+are%3A+%E2%80%98hep-ex%E2%80%99+(0.619)%2C+%E2%80%98hep-th%E2%80%99+(0.454)%2C+%E2%80%98hep-ph%E2%80%99+(0.44)%2C+%E2%80%98hep-lat%E2%80%99+(0.263)%2C+%E2%80%98nucl-ex%E2%80%99+(0.238)%2C+%E2%80%98quant-ph%E2%80%99+(0.202)%2C+%E2%80%98nucl-th%E2%80%99+(0.185)%2C+%E2%80%98cond-mat%E2%80%99+(0.168)%2C+%E2%80%98astro-ph%E2%80%99+(0.094)%2C+%E2%80%98math-ph%E2%80%99+(0.075)%2C+%E2%80%98physics%E2%80%99+(0.03)%2C+and+%E2%80%98gr-qc%E2%80%99+(0.002).+The+impact+is+definitely+much+higher+than+what+is+concluded+from+the+calculated+factors+because+self-citations+are+not+reckoned+in+the+study.+Use+of+web-tools+like+%E2%80%98Citebase%E2%80%99%2C+%E2%80%98Citeseer%E2%80%99+etc.+may+strengthen+the+above+argument.&rft.date=2005-04&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4272%2F1%2FFinal-21-04-05_new.pdf&rft.identifier=++Prakasan%2C+E.+R.+and+Anil+Sagar%2C+*+and+Kalyane%2C+V.+L.+and+Anil+Kumar%2C+*+and+Harnad%2C+Stevan++(2005)+Minimum+impact+and+immediacy+of+citations+to+physics+open+archives+of+arXiv.org%3A+Science+Citation+Index+based+reports.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4272%2F