On 12/12/2007, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
I sure how this is directly relevant, or indeed how it's measure at all,
Like this:
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/nielsen/index.html
but it's entirely unsurprising - we're writing for a more general, more popular audience, and thus are less likely to delve into the more obscure works. The nature of the high-impact journals is that the work published in them is usually among the most prominent in its field...
I would tend to credit it to different use patterns. When an article appears in a high impact journal people may read the journal then go and add the info to wikipedia. For lower level journals they are going to picked up more randomly as people go looking for a cite of a given bit of information.