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Physics Today / Volume 41 / Issue 7 / ARTICLES

The Cost‐Effectiveness of Physics Journals

Henry H. Barschall

University of Wisconsin, Madison

July 1988, page 56

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.881125
A survey of more than 200 journals shows that their cost‐effectiveness, as measured by the ratio of the cost per printed character to the frequency with which articles are cited, varies by three orders of magnitude.

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0031-9228 (print)  

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  • 01.30.-y

    Physics literature and publications

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