Re: Blog vs. Peer Review Final Report: Lessons Learned

[bgsloan2@yahoo.com]

Robert Richards said:

"Moreover, often the dissemination of ideas in these new media 
becomes an end in itself: for example, many an influential 
scholarly blog post never leads to a formally published scholarly 
work."

That reminds me of an experience I had. Once I was playing around 
with some data comparing citations on the web to citations in the 
Web of Science. It was very preliminary stuff. I put a very brief 
description of the results on a web page.

This web page wound up being cited seven times in the Web of 
Science: twice in JASIST, twice in the Journal of Information 
Science, twice in Online Information Review, and once in College 
and Research Libraries. I have had some formally published papers 
that have only been cited once or twice in WoS.

Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates