Green and gold open access citation and interdisciplinary advantage: A bibliometric study of two science journals

Young, Jonathan; Brandes, Patricia

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2019.102105

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“…Gold OA refers to Open Access journals that provide immediate access to the articles published; Green OA are articles that are deposited in a repository and made publicly available by the authors; Hybrid OA articles are articles in subscription‐based journals with an Article Processing Charge (APC); Bronze OA articles are articles that are made free‐to‐read on the publisher website, without an explicit open license. Most studies that investigated the citation advantages of OA articles focused on Green and Gold OA articles (Zhang & Watson, 2017 ; Dorta‐González & Santana‐Jiménez, 2017 ; Young & Brandes, 2020 ). Most recently, researchers started to pay attention to different types of OA articles and compare their citation advantages.…”

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Use of Bibliometrics Data to Understand the Citation Advantages of Different Open Access Categories in Covid‐19 Related Studies

Chen

Bharti

Marsteller

2021

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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The number of Open Access (OA) research articles is trending upward. This research aims to understand the correlations between different OA types and the impact of OA research articles evaluated based on the citation numbers. To avoid bias caused by the publication year, we chose to use COVID-19 studies in different fields to take advantage of this topic's quick turnaround of data. We analyzed the bibliometrics data and citation numbers (excluding self-citations) of around 42,000 English language articles published in 2020 related to COVID-19. We evaluated different types of OA categories such as Gold, Bronze, and Hybrid articles separately. Results show that amongst all OA categories, Hybrid/Green and Bronze/Green OA articles had significant citation advantages. Green OA articles returned more citations than articles with the other OA status. Gold OA articles have no citation advantages compared to non-OA articles. Gold/Green OA articles had the highest self-citation rates, followed by Non-OA articles. The results of the study can be used in understanding different OA categories and the reasons for OA choices. Certain strategies can be made accordingly to improve the awareness of OA in different fields and help OA publishers to improve the OA services.

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Use of Bibliometrics Data to Understand the Citation Advantages of Different Open Access Categories in Covid‐19 Related Studies

Chen

Bharti

Marsteller

2021

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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“…Studies of the scholarly impact of open access provided by IR may be less sensitive to questions of definition, however, as IR are commonly understood to provide green OA. Importantly, a citation advantage attributable specifically to green OA has been reported by Young and Brandes (2020), and Archambault et al, (2014. Archambault identified the use of IR and immediate green OA in order to avoid embargo delays and showed there is a significant citation advantage to green OA publishing (Archambault et al, 2014(Archambault et al, , 2016.…”

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Impact factions: assessing the citation impact of different types of open access repositories

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Institutional repositories (IR) maintained by research libraries play a central role in providing open access to taxpayer-funded research products. It is difficult to measure the extent to which IR contribute to new scholarship because publisher self-archiving policies typically require researchers to cite the “version of record” of a manuscript even when an IR copy is accessed to conduct the research. While some studies report an open access (OA) citation advantage resulting from the availability of self-archived or “green” OA manuscripts, few have sought to measure an OA citation effect of IR separately from disciplinary repositories, including arXiv and PubMed Central. In this study, the authors present a bibliometric analysis examining correlations between search engine performance of items in IR, OA availability from different types of repositories, and citations. The analysis uses a novel, open dataset of IR access and usage derived from five months of Google search engine results pages (SERP) data, which were aggregated by the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal (RAMP) web service. Findings indicate that making OA copies of manuscripts available in self-archiving or “green” repositories results in a positive citation effect, although the disciplinary repositories within the sample significantly outperform the other types of OA services analyzed. Also evident is an increase in citations when a single manuscript is available in multiple OA sources.

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“…Open access (OA), and other new technological opportunities such as electronic publishing or open repositories, have changed the scholarly publishing landscape; one effect has been increased accessibility of research output, such as publications. Several scholars have studied the advantage of OA in terms of readership as well as citation impact (Basson et al, 2020;Cintra et al, 2018;Morillo, 2020;Piwowar et al, 2018;Riera & Aibar, 2013;Tang et al, 2017;Torres-Salinas et al, 2019;Young & Brandes, 2020). One of the key issues of recent OA developments has been to understand to which extent the current scientific literature is already published in open access and how that share is evolving in relation to the total growth of the scientific literature.…”

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The Arabic Citation Index - Toward a better understanding of Arab scientific literature

El-Ouahi

2022

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The Arabic Citation Index (ARCI) was launched in 2020. This article provides an overview of the scientific literature contained in this new database and explores its possible usage in research evaluation. As of May 2022, ARCI had indexed 138,283 scientific publications published between 2015 and 2020. ARCI's coverage is characterised by using the metadata available in scientific publications. First, I investigate the distributions of the indexed literature at various levels (research domains, countries, languages, open access). Articles make up nearly all the documents indexed with a share of 99% of ARCI. The Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences fields have the highest concentration of publications. Most indexed journals are published in Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. About 8% of publications in ARCI are published in languages other than Arabic. Second, I use an unsupervised machine learning model, LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation), and the text mining algorithm of VOSviewer to uncover the main topics in ARCI. These methods provide a better understanding of ARCI's thematic structure. Next, I discuss how ARCI can complement global standards in the context of a more inclusive research evaluation. Finally, I suggest a few research opportunities after discussing the findings of this study.

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Green and gold open access citation and interdisciplinary advantage: A bibliometric study of two science journals

Cited by 23 publications

References 24 publications

Use of Bibliometrics Data to Understand the Citation Advantages of Different Open Access Categories in Covid‐19 Related Studies

Use of Bibliometrics Data to Understand the Citation Advantages of Different Open Access Categories in Covid‐19 Related Studies

Impact factions: assessing the citation impact of different types of open access repositories

The Arabic Citation Index - Toward a better understanding of Arab scientific literature

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