Jim Till writes
> It may be noteworthy that the largest number of preprints has been in the
> subfield of physical chemistry. Might this be another example (along with
> the arXiv server) of physics-oriented scientists choosing to be early
> adopters of preprint servers?
My theory is that it is because Physical Chemistry is at the border with
physics and physics is a preprint discipline. Similar things happen
around econonomics which is another area of preprint tradition. You will
find preprints in finance at the border between economics and business much
more than say in marketing, which is as area that is further away from
economics. Thus it has more to do with established behaviour rather than
flexibility towards a new behaviour.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel
http://openlib.org/home/krichel
RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
Received on Wed Jan 03 2001 - 19:17:43 GMT