Downloads and citations in Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management

Abstract

This paper summarizes the papers downloaded most from the years 2000–2002 and traces the number of citations from Google Scholar (beta) for those papers at the beginning of 2008. It is found that the number of downloads and citations are highly correlated, suggesting that downloads is a leading indicator of citations, even years into the future. In addition, this paper assesses which of the papers from the journal have been cited most over the history of the journal, using both ISI–Social Science Citation Index and Google Scholar. It is found that the numbers of citations using both approaches are highly correlated. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Short and amusing: The relationship between title characteristics, downloads, and citations in psychology articles

“…The number of article downloads or views has usually been considered ‘a business secret’ by most subscription-based publishers, thus this information is generally not readily available for public research purposes. While previous research dealt with this issue by taking into account download data for a small number of open access [1] or even individual (subscription) journals [18–20], we wanted to take a different approach that would allow us to study multiple subscription-based journals. Even though the precise number of downloads may not often be available, there are publicly available ‘proxies’ to downloads, such as the ScienceDirect’s Top 25 Hottest Articles , which comprises a quarterly updated list of the 25 most downloaded articles for a given journal or the subject area.…”

“…We suspect that the download rates might be of a particular importance here because, on the one hand, the title characteristics seem to be related to both the download rates [1] and the citation rates of an article [1, 2, 10, 11], with indices that the first association is stronger [1]. On the other hand, the number of times an article is downloaded also correlates with the number of citations it receives [1, 18–20]. 2 This suggests that there actually might be both a direct and indirect relationship (e.g.…”

The 50 Most Downloaded Papers in Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management in 2014

“…Seven papers that were among the most downloaded papers from 2000 to 2002 (O'Leary, ) also were among the most downloaded in 2014: Kohara et al (), Fanning and Cogger (), McKee (), Ramamoorti et al . (), Coakley and Brown (), Yeo et al .…”

“…This editorial has summarized the 50 most downloaded full text papers from 2014 for Intelligent Systems in Accounting , Finance and Management . In addition, this paper compared the papers with an earlier research study that captured the number of downloads from the time period 2000–2002 (O'Leary, ).…”

“…Previous research has found that the number of downloads and Google citations are highly correlated (e.g. O'Leary, ), suggesting that downloads are a leading indicator of citations. Diamond () and others have noted that citations have economic benefit for those being cited.…”