Attention decay in science
@article{Parolo2015AttentionDI, title={Attention decay in science}, author={Pietro Della Briotta Parolo and R. Pan and R. Ghosh and B. Huberman and K. Kaski and S. Fortunato}, journal={ArXiv}, year={2015}, volume={abs/1503.01881} }
The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to their work. [...] Key Result This indicates that the attention of scholars depends on the number of published items, and not on real time.Expand Abstract
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