That's smart! Thanks Piero I get 67 hits on full:"perl data language"
I expect the number of papers using it is a lot greater. I myself have probably used it in 50 papers without citing it. Damn! Karl On 11 Feb 2015, at 8:51 pm, Piero Ranalli <piero.rana...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-02-11 9:04 GMT+02:00, Karl Glazebrook <kglazebr...@swin.edu.au>: >> Do we have any estimate of the impact/reach of PDL? >> >> Has anyone tried a paper count? > > Hi > > if you mean citations to Glazebrook & Economou 1997, The Perl Journal, > 5, 5, than the Thomson-Reuters Web of science is returning a total of > 14 citations, only 13 of which however have a record in their "Web of > science core collections". All these papers are in astrophysics, which > looks a bit suspect, but I can't find any way to select other fields. > Three more citations appear when searching for Dr Dobb's journal (one > paper on optics, two in bioinformatics). > > Besides the PDL paper, people may just be citing the PDL website. The > NASA ADS database returns 47 records with an occurrence of > "pdl.perl.org" in the full text. > > > I think the main difficulty is that neither the Perl Journal, nor Dr > Dobb's (which published the same article, is it correct?) are indexed, > so there not a proper record in the databases for the PDL paper. This > means that if search for the PDL paper, you won't find it; but you can > see it listed in the references list of a paper citing it. > So in Web of science you must find one paper citing PDL, get the > references, find PDL in the list, and ask for citations of that -- > that's how I did. > > > > Piero _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list Perldl@jach.hawaii.edu http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
