Tireless Ad Hoc Critiques of OA Study After OA Study: Will Wishful Thinking Ever Cease?
Amsciforum 2013-03-10
Summary:
No study based on samples and statistical significance-testing has the force of an unassailable mathematical proof.
But how many studies showing that OA articles are downloaded and cited more have to be published before the ad hoc critiques (many funded and promoted by an industry that has something of an interest in the outcome!) and the hopeful special pleading tire of the chase?