This is one of the areas in which social media is big, because of its immediacy factor and the possibility for messages to spread and reach people throughout the world in a matter of seconds.
(3) Although de Solla Price [34] has postulated an "immediacy factor" in which most scientific publications usually cite recent work, and papers tend to become obsolete within five to ten years [35], it might be that limiting our data to papers published after 1996 (that is, by using Scopus) affects the results [36].
Citation counts of articles and the relationship between the misuse rate and impact factor, immediacy index, or cited half-life were also evaluated.
But if immediacy is the prime factor in the futures pit, she said, deliberation is at the core of decision-making for fund managers, like those she has been studying in London.
Journals should follow their own guidelines for presenting data [ 21] by including a measure of uncertainty when quoting performance indicators such as the journal impact factor or immediacy index.
The editor, Michael Schmitt, a professor at the US Naval War College, cites among the crucial factors: "severity, immediacy, invasiveness, measurability and state involvement".Such rules would help if law-abiding countries went to war (Sweden against Canada, say).
Other participants did, however, identify workplace factors such as immediacy and newsworthiness which impact capacity to provide fair and balanced reporting.
Results of both experiments provide evidence that obtained relative immediacy may be an important contributing factor to the SDVL phenomenon.
Analysts say the ability to select software and download it directly from the web provides the highest level of immediacy to the user when shopping online a factor which is going to propel online software sales to $2 billion by year 2000, according to New York-based Jupiter Communications.
Street art is big now, thanks to a convergence of several factors, from the small world immediacy of the internet to the DIY, my-kid-could-do-that visual aesthetic of stencils and spray paint, to the appeal of the sports-like physicality and spirit of competition, that anybody with enough guts, imagination and paint could pull off a very public masterpiece.
Furthermore, these efforts demonstrate the immediacy that academic sciences can have on local communities, a factor that may be advantageous for the scientific community in a tight funding climate.
