Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

Sotudeh, Hajar

doi:10.1177/0165551519865489

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“…Apart from that, the citation advantage is usually used as recognition of the validity of OA publication and has been linked to the authors' selection of their best works for OA. However, the study by Sotudeh (2019) concludes that, if the authors' self-selectivity exists, it is not responsible for the OA citation advantage, at least with regard to the selection of topics. Besides, during her data collection, Antelman (2004) observed that it was usual for authors to publish all or none of their articles in OA.…”

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Is open access publication useful for all research fields? Presence of funding, collaboration and impact

Morillo

2020

Scientometrics

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Open access (OA) to every research result supported by funding bodies is a medium to long-term goal. This work aims to find out whether OA publication is useful for all research fields, regardless of their specific features. As a sample, articles from the WoS databases from two disparate disciplines (one from SSCI and another from SCIE) are selected, and several hypotheses related to the presence of funding acknowledgements, cooperation and citations are tested. A first look at the general distribution of publications shows that collaborative and funded research obtains a higher proportion of cited articles, and that this proportion increases in the case of OA publications. Moreover, the logistic regression reveals that the probability of finding an OA publication is significantly increased in the SCIE discipline, and by the presence of EU funding, international collaboration and citations. This probability rises with some interactions (e.g. presence of international funding and international collaboration, or international funding and citations). Regarding OA types, Green OA publications are the most related to fund recognition, although Gold OA/Bronze OA articles in international collaboration are also significantly related to financing. Concerning impact, the most likely cited OA type is the Hybrid OA. However, if papers include funding acknowledgements, the Bronze OA and Green OA publications increase their citation likelihood. Similarly, when Gold OA articles include international collaboration, there is a greater chance of citation. With these findings, it is possible to venture that OA publishing will be useful for all research fields, although their specific features should be considered. Consequently, funders should be aware of these particularities to stimulate OA without compromising the quality of the research.

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Is open access publication useful for all research fields? Presence of funding, collaboration and impact

Morillo

2020

Scientometrics

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“…A study of working papers in economics shows that the impact of working papers is relatively low and provides no evidence of an OA advantage (Frandsen, 2009). OA advantages might be topic-dependent; that is, authors tend to select citationattractive topics, especially for OA outlets that are more likely to attract citations (Sotudeh, 2019). However, we do not really know whether OA benefits hot topics or TA cools cold topics.…”

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Scientific Value Weights more than Being Open or Toll Access: An analysis of the OA advantage in Nature and Science

Wang

Wei

Cao

et al. 2021

Journal of Data and Information Science

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Purpose We attempt to find out whether OA or TA really affects the dissemination of scientific discoveries. Design/methodology/approach We design the indicators, hot-degree, and R-index to indicate a topic OA or TA advantages. First, according to the OA classification of the Web of Science (WoS), we collect data from the WoS by downloading OA and TA articles, letters, and reviews published in Nature and Science during 2010–2019. These papers are divided into three broad disciplines, namely biomedicine, physics, and others. Then, taking a discipline in a journal and using the classical Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to cluster 100 topics of OA and TA papers respectively, we apply the Pearson correlation coefficient to match the topics of OA and TA, and calculate the hot-degree and R-index of every OA-TA topic pair. Finally, characteristics of the discipline can be presented. In qualitative comparison, we choose some high-quality papers which belong to Nature remarkable papers or Science breakthroughs, and analyze the relations between OA/TA and citation numbers. Findings The result shows that OA hot-degree in biomedicine is significantly greater than that of TA, but significantly less than that of TA in physics. Based on the R-index, it is found that OA advantages exist in biomedicine and TA advantages do in physics. Therefore, the dissemination of average scientific discoveries in all fields is not necessarily affected by OA or TA. However, OA promotes the spread of important scientific discoveries in high-quality papers. Research limitations We lost some citations by ignoring other open sources such as arXiv and bioArxiv. Another limitation came from that Nature employs some strong measures for access-promoting subscription-based articles, on which the boundary between OA and TA became fuzzy. Practical implications It is useful to select hot topics in a set of publications by the hot-degree index. The finding comprehensively reflects the differences of OA and TA in different disciplines, which is a useful reference when researchers choose the publishing way as OA or TA. Originality/value We propose a new method, including two indicators, to explore and measure OA or TA advantages.

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“…Unrestricted access to scientific work manifests the principle that science is owned collectively by the public (i.e., the norm of communalism; Merton, 1942Merton, /1973. OA also improves a work's reach and impact metrics; papers that are publicly accessible get more engagement and more citations relative to inaccessible research (Davis, 2011;Fraser et al, 2020;Fu & Hughey, 2019;Piwowar et al, 2018;Sotudeh, 2020;Tennant et al, 2016). Nominal support for OA has been high for more than a decade among psychologists (Dallmeier-Tiessen et al, 2011) and health researchers (Anderson et al, 2007(Anderson et al, , 2010).…”

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A Guide to Posting and Managing Preprints

Moshontz

Binion

Walton

et al. 2021

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

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Posting preprints online allows psychological scientists to get feedback, speed dissemination, and ensure public access to their work. This guide is designed to help psychological scientists post preprints and manage them across the publication pipeline. We review terminology, provide a historical and legal overview of preprints, and give guidance on posting and managing preprints before, during, or after the peer-review process to achieve different aims (e.g., get feedback, speed dissemination, achieve open access). We offer concrete recommendations to authors, such as post preprints that are complete and carefully proofread; post preprints in a dedicated preprint server that assigns DOIs, provides editable metadata, is indexed by GoogleScholar, supports review and endorsements, and supports version control; include a draft date and information about the paper’s status on the cover page; license preprints with CC BY licenses that permit public use with attribution; and keep preprints up to date after major revisions. Although our focus is on preprints (unpublished versions of a work), we also offer information relevant to postprints (author-formatted, post-peer-review versions of a work) and work that will not otherwise be published (e.g., theses and dissertations).

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Does open access citation advantage depend on paper topics?

Cited by 19 publications

References 73 publications

Is open access publication useful for all research fields? Presence of funding, collaboration and impact

Is open access publication useful for all research fields? Presence of funding, collaboration and impact

Scientific Value Weights more than Being Open or Toll Access: An analysis of the OA advantage in Nature and Science

A Guide to Posting and Managing Preprints

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