Open access papers 'more likely to be cited on Twitter' | Times Higher Education

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-11

Summary:

"Articles that feature in open access journals are more likely to be cited on Twitter, a major study of how research is shared has found. Kim Holmberg, a research associate at the University of Turku in Finland, has conducted a study looking at around 4 million 'altmetric events' – the sharing of research using tools like Facebook and the academic bookmarking tool Mendeley - which might shed light on the impact of scholarly work beyond the traditional measure of citations by other academics.   Speaking to a conference on altmetrics on 8 October in Amsterdam, Dr Holmberg presented the preliminary findings, which showed that open access journals and articles have a 'big advantage' when it comes to being shared on Twitter compared with those behind a paywall. They were also more likely to be shared on Facebook, although to a lesser extent, he told the 2am:Amsterdam conference. However, on Mendeley and Wikipedia, articles behind a paywall were relatively more likely to be cited ..."

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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-access-papers-more-likely-be-cited-twitter

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oa.new oa.comment oa.studies oa.social_media oa.twitter oa.facebook oa.wikipedia oa.mendeley oa.citations oa.impact oa.altmetrics oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.gold oa.metrics oa.journals

Date tagged:

10/11/2015, 08:22

Date published:

10/11/2015, 04:22