Kairos Praxis Editor Colleen Reilly and I worked together on an analysis of the citation of online works in the print journals of rhetoric/composition, initially intending to see how often works in peer-reviewed electronic journals (such as Kairos, Enculturation, and Computers and Composition Online) were cited in the articles published in CCC, College English, JAC, and Computers and Composition. The current data set we are working with covers these print journals from 1996 - 2003, and we found that very few articles in these print journals cited any kind of electronic resource: "Of the 25,979 citations that appear in all articles, reviews, and other pieces in the four print journals we examined, 913 or 3.5% cite electronic sources and only 104 citations, a negligible percentage, are to texts published in peer-reviewed, online journals" (Eyman and Reilly, in-progress).

The good news is that most of those 104 citations are to works published in Kairos. We're working on expanding the dataset to include 2004-2006 (and will be adding other journals as well), but we hope to see an increase in the citation of Kairos articles. I'll report on that once the project is finished. I have noticed (but do not have current data for this anecdotal evidence--that will be a follow-up project) that edited collections and monographs are far more likely to cite electronic resources than are print journal articles.

Speaking of citations: with the able assistance of Susan Baxter, a graduate student at Utah State University, we are also working on making available a bibliography of all the works cited in Kairos; once it is complete, we will also be able to analyze the degree to which the works we publish cite both print and electronic resources. Next: The Future

Kairos is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography

Kairos is also catalogued in the Directory of Open Access Journals

The first three volumes (1996-1998) of Kairos are indexed in CompPile: An ongoing inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, technical writing, and discourse studies.