Physical aging in article page views

Authors :: Kim, Yeseul
Cho, Kun
Weon, Byung Mook
Publication Year :: 2016
Abstract: Statistics of article page views is useful for measuring the impact of individual articles. Analyzing the temporal evolution of article page views, we find that article page views usually decay over time after reaching a peak, especially exhibiting relaxation with nonexponentiality. This finding suggests that relaxation in article page views resembles physical aging as frequently found in complex systems.<br />Comment: 3 pages with 1 figure