Impact de l’Open Access sur les citations : une étude de cas

Bordignon, Frédérique; Andro, Mathieu

doi:10.3917/i2d.163.0070

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“…To answer the question, this study tries to pair OA and NOA papers in terms of their subject similarity and then examine the association between their OACA and similarity degrees. As far as the OACA-oriented literature goes, it seems that subject coverage is taken into consideration by focusing on the papers published either in the same journal [14,25,51–53] or in the same discipline [6,21,30,54–57]. Piwowar et al [22] categorised papers based on their publishing journal fields, except for those published in multidisciplinary journals that they classified at the article level to their mostly cited subject area.…”

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Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

Sotudeh

2019

Journal of Information Science

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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.

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Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

Sotudeh

2019

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Is the open access citation advantage real? A systematic review of the citation of open access and subscription-based articles

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Aims Over the last two decades, the existence of an open access citation advantage (OACA)—increased citation of articles made available open access (OA)—has been the topic of much discussion. While there has been substantial research to address this question, findings have been contradictory and inconclusive. We conducted a systematic review to compare studies of citations to OA and non-OA articles. Methods A systematic search of 17 databases attempted to capture all relevant studies authored since 2001. The protocol was registered in Open Science Framework. We included studies with a direct comparison between OA and non-OA items and reported article-level citation as an outcome. Both randomized and non-randomized studies were included. No limitations were placed on study design, language, or publication type. Results A total of 5,744 items were retrieved. Ultimately, 134 items were identified for inclusion. 64 studies (47.8%) confirmed the existence of OACA, while 37 (27.6%) found that it did not exist, 32 (23.9%) found OACA only in subsets of their sample, and 1 study (0.8%) was inconclusive. Studies with a focus on multiple disciplines were significantly positively associated with finding that OACA exists in subsets, and are less associated with finding that OACA did not exist. In the critical appraisal of the included studies, 3 were found to have an overall low risk of bias. Of these, one found that an OACA existed, one found that it did not, and one found that an OACA occurred in subsets. Conclusions As seen through the large number of studies identified for this review, OACA is a topic of continuing interest. Quality and heterogeneity of the component studies pose challenges for generalization. The results suggest the need for reporting guidelines for bibliometrics studies.

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Impact de l’Open Access sur les citations : une étude de cas

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

Is the open access citation advantage real? A systematic review of the citation of open access and subscription-based articles

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