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I wonder what the "rot factor" is for scientific citations? Some professional societies I am in mandate URLs for bibliographical references. Most of the time th
by peter303 9y ago
I wonder what the "rot factor" is for scientific citations? Some professional societies I am in mandate URLs for bibliographical references. Most of the time these are peer-reviewed articles. But they can be softer references like Wiki reviews, data repositories, etc.
- Pulcinella 9y agoDOIs are "suppose" to help solve this problem. I've often encountered a sort of "reverse link rot" where a cited article is in another language or obscure journal or reference material that was never digitized and is inaccessible.
- Deimorz 9y agoThere are some info/studies about it linked here that show it's fairly high: https://perma.cc/#landing-problem https://perma.cc/#landing-problem Perma.cc was created by the Harvard Law School Library specifically to try to solve that issue, since so many citation links were becoming useless.