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Are Researchers Reading the Journals they Publish in? A Case Study of Icahn School of Medicine

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In this study we sought to find whether there is a correlation between the journals that scientists read to those that they publish in. For the analysis, we selected the journals that include at least 10 articles authored or coauthored by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai scientists and journals that were used at least 10,000 times in 2015. For each of the journals we also collected the Journal Impact Factor value for 2015. Our results show that Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai scientists do not necessarily publish in and read the same journals at the same rate. The data also shows that scientists tend to read journals with higher impact factor.

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  1. The Levy Library, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Mail Stop 1102, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Gali Halevi

  2. Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Judit Bar-Ilan

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Halevi, G., Bar-Ilan, J. Are Researchers Reading the Journals they Publish in? A Case Study of Icahn School of Medicine. Pub Res Q 33, 56–63 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-016-9488-x

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