Elsevier is spamming my mailbox. You would not expect that from a large publishing company who makes money from publishing scientific papers, but that's what happens. I think I am not alone in receiving automated emails with your name on the subject (a typical sign that the message is junk by the way):
Dr. Dorigo, your work has been cited.
Dear Dr. T. Dorigo,
It is our pleasure to inform you that your publication has been cited in a journal published by Elsevier.
Through this unique service we hope we can offer you valuable information, and make you aware of publications in your research area.
Then the specification of the cited and the citing papers are given. The irony is that these are nothing but 600-author papers by CDF and DZERO, respectively - so the "alert" is not really so interesting to me, since it is not really information I was not aware of.
But now I am frightened: I have authored over 640 papers, and most of them are well-known results from the CDF and CMS collaborations. The average number of citations of these papers has double digits, and a simple calculation makes me expect that I get on average one or two citations a day. Not all these papers are published by Elsevier, but a good fraction is... So the next thing to do is to unsubscribe to this service I did not ask for !
