The Green Open Access Citation Advantage: Within-Journal Versus Between-Journal Comparisons

Amsciforum 2013-03-10

Summary:

It is only one of Miguel et al’s conclusions – that their between-journal data showing that Green OA journals have higher impact factors than both Gold OA and Gray journals somehow explain or invalidate the many within-journal studies demonstrating that Green OA articles within the same journal have higher citation counts than non-OA articles – that does not follow from the evidence (and cannot follow, methodologically or logically). Apart from that one point, the Miguel et al article contains informative and useful between-journal data on Green and Gold OA, across fields and geographic areas.

Link:

http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/811-guid.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Amsciforum

Tags:

oa.new oa.elsevier oa.metrics oa.impact oa.citations oa.advantage oa.scopus oa.paywalled

Authors:

stevanharnad

Date tagged:

03/10/2013, 12:39

Date published:

05/04/2011, 13:21