A longitudinal study of the evolution of opinions about open access and its main features: a twitter sentiment analysis

Sotudeh, Hajar; Saber, Zeinab; Aloni, Farzin Ghanbari; Mirzabeigi, Mahdieh; Khunjush, Farshad

doi:10.1007/s11192-022-04502-7

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“…Negative attitudes were also revealed about the OAI, though it was the least negative feature along with the OAM. Notwithstanding a growing interest in OA-related discussions on Twitter (Sotudeh et al, 2022), tweeters were rarely found to be frequently involved in the OA debates. The opinion negativity depended on which party (role, gender) tweeted about what (OA features) and where (trends).…”

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“…A content analysis method, with an opinion mining approach, was used to analyze a dataset received courtesy of Sotudeh et al (2022). It comprised 9,268 tweets posted by 5,227 tweeters in 2019.…”

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“…As Dalton et al (2020) set forth, the rapidly changing landscape of scholarly publishing requires renewing our knowledge of the needs and feelings about it. Except for Colclough (2020) and Sotudeh et al (2022), no studies concentrated on the OA debates on social networks. The former tackled tweeters' opinions about an important, though narrow, topic (i.e.…”

Section: Open-access Debates and Tweeters' Sentimentsmentioning

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“…Learned societies appeared in the conflicted role of both publisher and academic champion. Having used a search strategy composed of the salient keywords identified from OA literature, Sotudeh et al (2022) gathered tweets on OA "costs and funds" (OACF), "validity and quality" (OAVQ), "impact" (OAI), "models" (OAM) and "publishing and publications" (OAP). They found out that the OA-related tweets were mostly neutral.…”

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“…The rare examples conducted across the world chose their samples from the authors contributing to OA journals, but not non-authors. Colclough (2020) and Sotudeh et al (2022) were the exceptions concentrating on social users. However, the former investigated the attitudes about a narrow OA-related topic, and the latter analyzed the opinions collectively, without zooming in on the granularity of different OAS opinions.…”

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How social are open-access debates: a follow-up study of tweeters' sentiments

Sotudeh

2023

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PurposeDespite the widespread studies on the attitudes about OA, there exists little comparative evidence about the opinions of author and non-author parties at a global level in a social context. To bridge the gap, this study first investigated the opinions of the users who posted at least one tweet about OA in 2019. Then, it zoomed in to explore the views of the OA-interested tweeters, i.e. the users who have posted five or more tweets about OA.Design/methodology/approachUsing a content analysis method, with an opinion-mining approach, this study examined a sample of 9,268 OA-related tweets posted by 5,227 tweeters in 2019. The sentiments were analyzed using SentiStrength. A threshold of at least five tweets was set to identify the OA-interested tweeters.FindingsAcademics and scholars, library and information professionals, and journals and publishers were the main OA-interested tweeters, implying that OA debates have not been widely propagated from its traditional audience to the general public. Despite an overall positive attitude, the tweeters showed negative perspectives about the gold and hybrid models, validity and quality, and costs and funds. The negativity depended on the OA features tweeted, the tweeters' occupations and gender, as well as the trends.Research limitations/implicationsThe low societal impact of the OA debates calls for solutions to attract the public's attention and to exploit their potential to achieve the OA ideals. The OA stakeholders' divergence necessitates finding solutions to remedy the pitfalls. It also underlines the need for scrutiny into social layers when studying society's opinions and behaviors in a social network.Originality/valueThis is the first study in estimating the extent of the societal impact of OA debates, comparing the social OA stakeholders' opinions and their dependence on the OA features tweeted, the tweeter roles and gender and the tweet trending status.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-09-2022-0502

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