Think of it this way... even if you have easy access to 100x more papers than before, the number of citations that you put in your paper is still the same. This means that the you will try to pick the best references from the set you have available, which, in turn, will result in some particularly good papers being cited more often than they would otherwise.
Are they being rude by doing a bunch of redirects (and making it harder for me to leave) or is there something else going on?
Second, because I can easily get a different article, if the one I have doesn't say quite what I need, I can find something else.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb also addresses this topic in some depth in his book "The black Swan" (http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp...).
