Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?

By Kristin Antelman. 2004

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Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few. This study looks at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption of open access—philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic engineering and mathematics—to see whether they have a greater impact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when their authors make them freely available on the Internet. The finding is that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater research impact. Shedding light on this category of open access reveals that scholars in diverse disciplines are adopting open-access practices and being rewarded for it.

Subfields: Information Systems, Statistics and Probability

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Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals at the European and World Levels—1996-2013 (2014, methodology): “The initial interest in the use of bibliometric methods in OA measurement focused on accessing the so-called citation advantage of OA2 as opposed to subscription-based journals (Lawrence, 2001; Antelman, 2004; Harnad & Brody, 2004; Craig, 2007).”
University Faculty Awareness and Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing and the Institutional Repository: A Case Study (2015, neutral): “More studies favoring the OA advantage exist (Antelman, 2004; Eysenbach, 2006; Gargouri, et al., 2010; Harnad & Brody, 2004; Norris, Oppenheim, & Rowland, 2008; Perkel, 2006; Xia & Nakanishi, 2012) than those that found no advantage (Craig, Plume, McVeigh, Pringle, & Amin, 2007; Davis & Fromerth,…”