[Air-l] How Much Information / Information Growth

[Denise N. Rall]

Ok Air-ers -

I'm staying out of the
data/information/knowledge/wisdom debate -
Here's some websites that measure no. of journals
which might be a benchmark for other types of
information explosion.

I personally am not *too* worried about information
explosion - but information implosion - where somehow
Paris Hilton and other 'high interest' topics come to
dominate any internet search in endless loops.

However this is an infometric issue - and we've got
some good scholars around on these topics - especially
those associated with the NIWI group in Amsterdam -
any opinions there?

> Hi Denise
> 
> this web site also came up looks good 
> http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publishing/
> 
> There is a nice graph the you can get to from the
> links on the left 
> "Journal numbers over time"
> 
> And the 2006 update of the paper 
>
http://octavia.zoology.washington.edu/publications/BergstromAndBergstrom06.pdf
> 


Cheers, Denise



Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis, "Locating four pathways to 
internet scholarship" School of Env. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA 
Tues: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 
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Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK
http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html


 
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