I recently did a google search on the title of one of my conference papers and was directed to a website for a Chinese heavy machinery manufacturing company. This was a bit strange since the article focused on the development of an expert system for payrolls at a power company which cited prior pilot systems at an aluminium smelting company.
Your report has an appendix which gives the interesting logic(?!) of overtime rates. This would be of interest to any social worker. It would even be of interest to any heavy machinery manufacturer who wants to improve its competitiveness, apart from smelting companies. Like most people, the Chinese were interested in a social part, not the whole of your report. It was not inappropriate.
Sadly such social "citations" do not count towards boosting your index of research reputation!
Come to think of it, now everyone must check, if something like this has happened to their research writings or reports ??
@Jaya: You should use Scholar to see if your citers suggest new lines of research or become co-authors. (Not just to stroke your ego!).
Thanks Ian: I'd been wondering why such an old paper was being downloaded so often. You made some interesting points.
Jaya - I found this link through a standard Google search when I had used Google Scholar previously no citations were noted.
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