Jim Till writes > It may be noteworthy that the largest number of preprints has been in the > subfield of physical chemistry. Might this be another example (along with > the arXiv server) of physics-oriented scientists choosing to be early > adopters of preprint servers?
My theory is that it is because Physical Chemistry is at the border with physics and physics is a preprint discipline. Similar things happen around econonomics which is another area of preprint tradition. You will find preprints in finance at the border between economics and business much more than say in marketing, which is as area that is further away from economics. Thus it has more to do with established behaviour rather than flexibility towards a new behaviour. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
