Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study

Arendt, Julie; Peacemaker, Bettina; Miller, Hillary

doi:10.5860/crl.80.3.303

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“…These data show a decidedly large citation advantage for OA papers, despite a lag in availability of OA compared to paywalled papers among the papers included in their study. Arendt et al (2019) used citation counts and observed similar patterns to those found by Antelman (2004): freely accessible articles receive more citation counts than paywalled. Other metrics used to measure a statistically significant OA citation advantage include: citation rate (Alkhawtani et al, 2020;Antelman, 2004;Bautista-Puig et al, 2020), and risk of not being cited (Eysenbach, 2006).…”

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confidence: 62%

“…The discipline with the largest growth in OA availability in Antelman's study was mathematics, but the discipline with the greatest impact of OA on citation rates was political science (Antelman, 2004). Similarly, Arendt et al (2019), Björk et al (2010), andHajjem et al (2006) report a general citation advantage for open access papers that is sensitive to disciplinary context but nonetheless consistently demonstrated across disciplines.…”

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confidence: 97%

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

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“…In spite of the widespread studies on the OACA, there is not yet any certainty about the causation of the phenomenon. As instance, ‘the early view postulate’ is challenged by some studies confirming the OACA persistence over time [33,34]. The impact of ‘self-selection’ bias is also rejected by Ottaviani [18].…”

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confidence: 99%

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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“…In addition to open access publishing support and education, universities and colleges with institutional repositories can use those systems to help identify and analyze their open access and scholarly communication needs. Examining open access citation data from an institutional repository (IR) can help librarians demonstrate the scholarship's impact and can provide opportunities for improving research support services (Antelman, 2004;Arendt et al, 2019). At Montana State University, librarians looked at citation data from their IR and used this analysis to inform scholarly communication programing (Sterman & Clark, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Scholarly Communications Training: Professional Development for the Next Generation of Scholars

Craft

Harlow

2020

Serials Review

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Many campuses are seeing increased needs for support in scholarly communications areas such as open access, research identity management, scholarship metrics, and related topics. This article discusses a professional development program that addresses scholarly communications needs for online and in-person graduate students and faculty at UNC Greensboro (UNCG), through a collaborative, interdepartmental effort that brings together librarians from the departments of Research, Outreach, and Instruction (ROI) and Technical Services. The authors provide a brief overview of the literature related to scholarly communications needs and training in academic libraries and discuss the UNCG program's inception, modules, format, assessment, and future directions.

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Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

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

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

Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

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