Open access citation advantage? A local study at a large research university Academic Article

abstract

• ABSTRACTThis study examines the open access citation advantage of gold open access (OA) journal articles published at a large U.S. research university. Most studies that examine the open access citation advantage focus on specific journals, disciplines, countries or global output. Local citation patterns may differ from these larger patterns. Since many OA advocates mention the open access citation advantage when promoting OA journal publishing on university campuses, an understanding of local patterns is crucial. This study reports on a method and compares average citation counts for subscription and gold OA journal articles using Web of Science. Gold OA physics journals showed a definite open access citation advantage, whereas other disciplines showed no difference or no open access citation advantage.

authors

• Hubbard, David

published proceedings

• Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

altmetric score

• 5.312

author list (cited authors)

• Hubbard, D. E.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Hubbard, David E

publication date

• January 2017

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

keywords

• 46 Information And Computing Sciences
• 4610 Library And Information Studies
• Aging

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401126

start page

• 712

end page

• 713

volume

• 54

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401126