[RAS] Fwd: 909 is down from 995 eight days ago, but up from 651 four days ago - the citations go down just before the rankings are released, and come up again after they have been released (fwd)

[Ivan Kurmanov]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Christian Zimmermann
<zimmermann at stlouisfed.org> wrote:
> Here is some one complaning about massively missing citations.

I've stopped APU cronjob until this is clarified.

The citations data (citec) was in
/opt/mutabor/home/adnetec/RePEc/zzz/cites on old nebka.

There is the same directory on the new nebka, and it seems to have the
same content, except that it belongs to aras user and aras group
(versus adnetec/adnetec on the old server). Do we need to setup
updates of that?

It looks like that may have the outdated content now. Update daemon says:

U DATAFILE_START: ssb/dispap/410.amf.xml
src doc id: RePEc:ssb:dispap:410
srcdocsid: dcan1533
citations already known: 36 (45)
citations now: 19
citations disappeared: 17
RECORD PROCESS: RePEc:ssb:dispap:410#citations|citations
RECORD CHANGED: RePEc:ssb:dispap:410#citations
U DATAFILE_FINISH: ssb/dispap/410.amf.xml
U DATAFILE_START: ssb/dispap/388.amf.xml
src doc id: RePEc:ssb:dispap:388
srcdocsid: dsec594
citations already known: 39 (43)
citations now: 16
citations disappeared: 23
RECORD PROCESS: RePEc:ssb:dispap:388#citations|citations
RECORD CHANGED: RePEc:ssb:dispap:388#citations
U DATAFILE_FINISH: ssb/dispap/388.amf.xml
U DATAFILE_START: ssb/dispap/532.amf.xml
src doc id: RePEc:ssb:dispap:532
srcdocsid: deng222
citations already known: 15 (18)
citations now: 12
citations disappeared: 3
RECORD PROCESS: RePEc:ssb:dispap:532#citations|citations
RECORD CHANGED: RePEc:ssb:dispap:532#citations
U DATAFILE_FINISH: ssb/dispap/532.amf.xml
U DATAFILE_START: ssb/dispap/278.amf.xml
src doc id: RePEc:ssb:dispap:278
srcdocsid: dimp3175
citations already known: 57 (59)
citations now: 28
citations disappeared: 29
....

And there's lots of them disappeared.

So this might explain it.


-i


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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 01:02:56 +0200
> From: Michael McAleer <michael.mcaleer at gmail.com>
> To: Christian Zimmermann <zimmermann at stlouisfed.org>
> Subject: Fwd: 909 is down from 995 eight days ago,
>    but up from 651 four days ago - the citations go down just before the
>    rankings are released, and come up again after they have been released
>
> Dear Professor Zimmermann,
>
>   On 3 September 2011, I had 960 citations to the documents identified in
> my research profile.
>
>   On 4 September 2011, I had 934 citations to the documents identified in
> my research profile.
>
>    On 8 September 2011, I had 111 citations to the documents identified in
> my research profile.
>
>   Even by the amazing data contortions and distortions that I have observed
> in RePEc over the last few years, this is truly unbelievable.
>
>   Yours sincerely,
>
>   Michael McAleer
>
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