Jesse Fried and Eric Talley Comment on Popularity of Academic Web Site

The Daily Californian, June 25, by Emma Anderson
http://www.dailycal.org/article/101985

“(The rankings feature) may have been added as a gimmick to encourage more postings, so you’d get more downloads,” Fried said…. “It got one thousand downloads. Does that make it more scholarly significant? No.”
“It’s not a great barometer,” Talley said. “All you really need is a really provocative title and people will download it only to reach page three and find it’s nothing.”