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Yep this is it exactly on the journos behalf. Except change half to 90% - and that's being charitable. The publishers could change this but don't however, because they don't want people leaving their site for any reason ever. What if they don't come back!? They are often right to be afraid - after all why continue reading some moron's interpretation of a study when you can just read the study itself? Or why listen to a journo's memory of a politician's policies when you can check out their website and discover them for yourself?
And scientists don't really mind (as much as they complain about science journalism among themselves), because nothing gets citation numbers up like journo spam.
How would it being difficult to find their paper lead to more citations?
What?
Journalists excluding information that makes it easy to find your paper does little to help you get citations.
No, because anyone in a field close enough to cite you will easily find and have access to your paper through their university. But they're a lot more likely to a) hear about it and b) want to associate their own work with it if they hear about the paper on NPR rather than skimming through issue #1708 of the Journal of Queering Anthropology (which nobody ever actually does)
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