For the first time on a scale of a country, France, a study demonstrates that Open Science could increase the chances for researchers to be cited

"For the first time, an international research team has conducted a comprehensive study covering an entire country and all disciplines. The authors, Giovanni Colavizza (Denmark), Lauren Cadwallader (United States) and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (United States), chose to study France, a leading country in monitoring Open Science, and to use data from the French Open Science Monitor, that covers the entire country since 2018.

The study covers a considerable corpus of over 500,000 scientific articles. It reveals that each open science practice seems to be associated with an increase of the number of citations of the articles concerned. The results show that:

• An article published in open access is linked to 8.6% increase in citations compared to an article that is not open access.
• An article sharing source code is linked to 13.5% increase in citations.
• An article sharing data is linked to 14.3% increase in citations.
• An article published as a preprint is linked to 19% increase in citations...."