Senior economists studied the link between blog posts mentioning specific papers, to the amount of downloads of these papers. As to be expected, each time the papers were mentioned on a blog (such as Freakonomics, Marginal Revolution or Krugman), the amount of downloads peaked.
For example, when Freakonomics blogs about a paper:
So, evidently blog mentions have a positive impact on downloads. But more precisely, is it possible to measure the relationship between blog posts and downloads & abstract views?
The answer = yes.
By studying 94 papers that were linked to by 6 blogs, the study lead to the following results:
- blogging about a paper leads to a huge increase in downloads and abstract views in the same month the post was published (between 70 to 450, depending on the nature of the blogs readership).
- while the increase in downloads is massive, in % terms of the blogs readership, it is very small. The author suggests that just 1 - 2% of readers of the most popular blogs click through to see the paper - although with more specialised, research- focused blogs, this increases to around 4%.
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Because of technology and the people as well who find blogging and searching the net as already a part of their daily activities, that is why blogging has been a buzz.
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