Relativity analysis of downloads and citations for scientific papers
To study the relation between the internet communication and the scientific journal impact, the relativity between the download and citation frequencies of scientific papers is studied. The quantitative index of relativity and its calculated method are presented. The downloads and citations of some papers published in 1994, 2006, 2007 in the Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University are investigated and analyzed, the relativity coefficients are calculated. The results show that the downloads of internet is a necessary condition for the impact of journals; however the quality of published papers is the substantial condition.
internet communicationdownload frequencycitation frequencyimpact factor