scholarly journals Citation advantage for open access articles in European Radiology

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 482-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayan H. M. Alkhawtani ◽  
Thomas C. Kwee ◽  
Robert M. Kwee
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
European Radiology ◽  
Citation Advantage

Investigating the citation advantage of author-pays charges model in computer science research: a case study of Elsevier and Springer

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tehmina Amjad ◽  
Mehwish Sabir ◽  
Azra Shamim ◽  
Masooma Amjad ◽  
Ali Daud
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Computer Science Research ◽  
Science Domain ◽  
Citation Advantage

PurposeCitation is an important measure of quality, and it plays a vital role in evaluating scientific research. However, citation advantage varies from discipline to discipline, subject to subject and topic to topic. This study aims to compare the citation advantage of open access and toll access articles from four subfields of computer science.Design/methodology/approachThis research studies the articles published by two prestigious publishers: Springer and Elsevier in the author-pays charges model from 2011 to 2015. For experimentation, four sub-domains of computer science are selected including (a) artificial intelligence, (b) human–computer interaction, (c) computer vision and graphics, and (d) software engineering. The open-access and toll-based citation advantage is studied and analyzed at the micro level within the computer science domain by performing independent sample t-tests.FindingsThe results of the study highlight that open access articles have a higher citation advantage as compared to toll access articles across years and sub-domains. Further, an increase in open access articles has been observed from 2011 to 2015. The findings of the study show that the citation advantage of open access articles varies among different sub-domains of a subject. The study contributed to the body of knowledge by validating the positive movement toward open access articles in the field of computer science and its sub-domains. Further, this work added the success of the author-pays charges model in terms of citation advantage to the literature of open access.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to examine the citation advantage of the author-pays charges model at a subject level (computer science) along with four sub-domains of computer science.

scholarly journals Open Access Dermatology Publishing: No Citation Advantage Yet

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-72
Author(s):  
Laura J. Umstattd ◽  
Marcus A. Banks ◽  
Jeffrey I. Ellis ◽  
Robert P. Dellavalle
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Citation Advantage

scholarly journals Grades of Openness: Open and Closed Articles in Norway

Publications ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Mikki ◽  
Øyvind Gjesdal ◽  
Tormod Strømme
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Google Scholar ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Scholarly Article ◽  
Citation Advantage

Based on the total scholarly article output of Norway, we investigated the coverage and degree of openness according to the following three bibliographic services: (1) Google Scholar, (2) oaDOI by Impact Story, and (3) 1findr by 1science. According to Google Scholar, we found that more than 70% of all Norwegian articles are openly available. However, the degrees of openness are profoundly lower according to oaDOI and 1findr at 31% and 52%, respectively. Varying degrees of openness are mainly caused by different interpretations of openness, with oaDOI being the most restrictive. Furthermore, open shares vary considerably by discipline, with the medicine and health sciences at the upper end and the humanities at the lower end. We also determined the citation frequencies using cited-by values in Google Scholar and applying year and subject normalization. We found a significant citation advantage for open articles. However, this was not the case for all types of openness. In fact, the category of open access journals was by far the lowest cited, indicating that young journals with a declared open access policy still lack recognition.

Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 696-709
Author(s):  
Hajar Sotudeh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Abstract Level ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
Citation Advantage ◽  
Selection Of

Research topics vary in their citation potential. In a metric-wise scientific milieu, it would be probable that authors tend to select citation-attractive topics especially when choosing open access (OA) outlets that are more likely to attract citations. Applying a matched-pairs study design, this research aims to examine the role of research topics in the citation advantage of OA papers. Using a comparative citation analysis method, it investigates a sample of papers published in 47 Elsevier article processing charges (APC)-funded journals in different access models including non-open access (NOA), APC, Green and mixed Green-APC. The contents of the papers are analysed using natural language processing techniques at the title and abstract level and served as a basis to match the NOA papers to their peers in the OA models. The publication years and journals are controlled for in order to avoid their impacts on the citation numbers. According to the results, the OA citation advantage that is observed in the whole sample still holds even for the highly similar OA and NOA papers. This implies that the OA citation surplus is not an artefact of the OA and NOA papers’ differences in their topics and, therefore, in their citation potential. This leads to the conclusion that OA authors’ self-selectivity, if it exists at all, is not responsible for the OA citation advantage, at least as far as selection of topics with probably higher citation potentials is concerned.

scholarly journals Vantagens de citação do acesso aberto em periódicos selecionados da Ciência da Informação: uma análise ampliada aos indicadores altmétricos

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Roberto Cintra ◽  
Ariadne Chloe Furnival ◽  
Douglas Henrique Milanez
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
American Society ◽  
Web Social ◽  
Citation Advantage

Introdução: O acesso aberto diz respeito à literatura científica disponibilizada a qualquer usuário sem custos e livre das restrições de copyright e de licenciamento para seu reuso. Espera-se, de acordo com a hipótese do Open Access Citation Advantage, um aumento no número total de citações recebidas pelo artigos disponibilizados em acesso aberto com relação àqueles em acesso restrito.Objetivo: Analisar as possíveis vantagens de citações e menções na web social que o acesso aberto pode oferecer à área da Ciência da Informação.Metodologia: Foram analisados indicadores altmétricos e bibliométricos de citação de dois periódicos científicos: Journal of the American Society for Information Science e Scientometrics. A coleta dos dados foi realizada na Web of Science, Google Acadêmico, Altmetric.com e Mendeley.Resultados: Os resultados indicaram que o acesso aberto oferece vantagem quanto ao número de citações e de menções na web social recebidas pelos artigos em ambos as revistas. Verificou-se também que essa vantagem se mantém ao longo dos anos.Conclusões: A investigação confirma a hipótese do Open Access Citation Advantage para os periódicos selecionados da área da Ciência da Informação e demonstra que essa vantagem se estende aos dados altmétricos.

scholarly journals Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (02) ◽  
pp. 448-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Atchison
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Citation Advantage

ABSTRACTOpen-access (OA) advocates have long promoted OA as an egalitarian alternative to traditional subscription-based academic publishing. The argument is simple: OA gives everyone access to high-quality research at no cost. In turn, this should benefit individual researchers by increasing the number of people reading and citing academic articles. As the OA movement gains traction in the academy, scholars are investing considerable research energy to determine whether there is an OA citation advantage—that is, does OA increase an article’s citation counts? Research indicates that it does. Scholars also explored patterns of gender bias in academic publishing and found that women are cited at lower rates in many disciplines. Indeed, in many disciplines, men enjoy a significant and positive gender citation effect (GCE) compared to their female colleagues. This article combines these research areas to determine whether the OA citation advantage varies by gender. Using Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) tests, the nonparametric analog to the independent samples T-test, I conclude that OA benefits male and female political scientists at similar rates. Thus, OA negates the gender citation advantage that typically accrues to male political scientists.

The citation advantage for open access science journals with and without article processing charges

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-130
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Ghane ◽  
Mohammad Reza Niazmand ◽  
Ameneh Sabet Sarvestani
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Science Class ◽  
H Index ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
Citation Advantage

In this study of access models, we compared citation performance in journals that do and do not levy article processing charges (APCs) as part of their business model. We used a sample of journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) science class and its 13 subclasses and recorded four citation metrics: JIF, H-index, citations per publication (CPP) and quartile rank. We examined 1881 science journals indexed in DOAJ. Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports and Web of Science were used to extract JIF, H-index, CPP and quartile category. Overall, the JIF, H-index and CPP indicated that APC and non-APC open access (OA) journals had equal impact. Quartile category ranking indicated a difference in favour of APC journals. In each science subclass, we found significant differences between APC and non-APC journals in all citation metrics except for quartile rank. Discipline-related variations were observed in non-APC journals. Differences in the rank positions of scores in different groups identified citation advantages for non-APC journals in physiology, zoology, microbiology and geology, followed by botany, astronomy and general biology. Impact ranged from moderate to low in physics, chemistry, human anatomy, mathematics, general science and natural history. The results suggest that authors should consider field- and discipline-related differences in the OA citation advantage, especially when they are considering non-APC OA journals categorised in two or more subjects. This may encourage OA publishing at least in the science class.

scholarly journals The cost-effectiveness of the article-processing-charge-funded model across countries in different scientific blocks: the case of Elsevier's hybrid open access journals

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohreh Estakhr ◽  
Hajar Sotudeh ◽  
Javad Abbaspour ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Article Processing Charge ◽  
Publishing Article ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Citation Advantage

Introduction. The present study investigated the cost-effectiveness of article-processing-charge-funded model across the world countries in terms of its citation value proportional to the article processing charges. Method. Using a comparative citation analysis method at the macro level, it explored a sample of articles in forty-seven Elsevier hybrid open access journals that had been following the model since 2007. Analysis. The contributing countries' open access citation advantages were calculated based on the percentage of their open access citation surplus proportional to that of their non-open access articles. Their relative open access citation cost-effectiveness was obtained based on their open access citation counts proportional to the article processing charges, normalised by those of non-open access papers. The countries were categorised into four scientific blocks using Rand's categorization of countries' scientific development. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data in SPSS. Results. The results supported the citation advantage of the article-processing-charge-funded papers, encompassing the majority of the contributing countries in the four scientific development blocks. The articles showed relative cost-effectiveness over the years and for most countries in all the scientific development blocks. Conclusions. Publishing article-processing-charge-funded papers is relatively cost-effective, implying higher visibility and influence in exchange for the money paid.

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