In Swedish Repository, OA Citations Trump Non-OA

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-07-07

Summary:

"... Why then care about citations rates on OA articles? Because citations are a language that researchers and university management understand. The assumption that open access leads to increased citations is widely spread among OA proponents. And proponents of this view have tended to be both passionate and argumentative. But what does it look like at Chalmers University of Technology? Research on whether OA articles receive more citations than non-OA articles officially traces its origins back to 2001 when Steve Lawrence first published a paper indicating an OA citation advantage in the field of computer science. Since then numerous of studies have been made on the subject. The explanations from previous studies of an OA citation advantage can be summarized as: (1) A general OA advantage: more scholars have access to papers and these therefore receive more citations. (2) An early advantage: the earlier a paper is made available, the earlier it can start accumulating citations. (3) A selection bias / quality advantage: authors choose to self-archive their best papers, and better papers attract more citations. Existing research on a possible OA citation advantage has used various different data sources and methodological approaches. Most studies have, however, compared citations to OA and non-OA papers published in the same journal or in a set of journals within a specific research field. This has been argued to be necessary due to differences in citation practice between scientific disciplines. An alternative approach could be to use citation-based bibliometric indicators that normalize for such differences and thus allow meaningful cross-disciplinary comparisons of citation impact. Studies on a possible OA citation advantage utilizing field normalized citation data seem to be lacking, but could make an important contribution to this research as they are not limited to comparing likes with likes. In this study, field normalized citation scores were combined with data on self-archiving from the university repository, Chalmers Publication Library (CPL), allowing for cross-field citation comparisons between OA and non-OA articles from Chalmers research publication output ..."

Link:

http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2014/07/in-swedish-repository-oa-citations-trump-non-oa/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.studies oa.ciations oa.metrics oa.impact oa.chalmers.u oa.green oa.repositories

Date tagged:

07/07/2014, 12:35

Date published:

07/07/2014, 08:35