On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Iain Craig [Blackwell Publishers] wrote:
> There is a review article recently published (2007) in Journal of
> Informetrics which covers this ground, "Do open access articles have
> greater citation impact? A critical review of the literature".
>
> See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2007.04.001 or for an alternate
> location, see http://www.publishingresearch.net/Citations.htm.
If Iain Craig wishes to single out his study
even though it is already included among the many items in
the bibliography I posted, may I point out that that same bibliography
also includes a critique of his study:
"Craig et al.'s Review of Studies on the OA Citation Advantage"
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/248-guid.html
(I would perhaps not have added that the Craig et al study was proposed by
the Publishing Research Consortium and conducted by the staff of three
publishers, but I see that another publisher study is about to be
announced on AmSci. Stay tuned...)
Stevan Harnad
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> On 1-Apr-08, at 6:13 AM, Nick Sheppard (U. Leeds) wrote:
>
> > I would be very grateful if anyone could point me at evidence that OA
> > articles are cited more often than non-OA; I have the 2001 article by
> > Steve Lawrence... but could do with something a little more up to date.
>
> See Steve Hitchcock's ongoing bibliography: "The effect of open access
> and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies"
> http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
>
> There's been plenty since Lawrence 2001!
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