Open access effect on uncitedness: a large-scale study controlling by discipline, source type and visibility

Dorta-González, Pablo; Suárez-Vega, Rafael; Dorta-González, María Isabel

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03557-8

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“…Many research articles in this study have not been cited or have not received any attention in social media (compiled in the database after four years). This is something that is observed frequently in the literature [32].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Collaboration Effect by Co-Authorship on Academic Citation and Social Attention of Research

Dorta-González

2022

Mathematics

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Academic citation and social attention measure different dimensions of the impact of research results. Both measures do not correlate with each other, and they are influenced by many factors. Among these factors are the field of research, the type of access, and co-authorship. In this study, the increase in the impact due to co-authorship in scientific articles disaggregated by field of research and access type, was quantified. For this, the citations and social attention accumulated until the year 2021 by a total of 244,880 research articles published in the year 2018, were analyzed. The data source was Dimensions.ai, and the units of study were research articles in Economics, History and Archaeology, and Mathematics. As the main results, a small proportion of the articles received a large part of the citations and most of the social attention. Both citations and social attention increased, in general, with the number of co-authors. Thus, the greater the number of co-authors, the greater the probability of being cited in academic articles and mentioned on social media. The advantage in citation and social attention due to collaboration is independent of the access type for the publication. Furthermore, although collaboration with an additional co-author is in general positive in terms of citation and social attention, these positive effects reduce as the number of co-authors increases.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Collaboration Effect by Co-Authorship on Academic Citation and Social Attention of Research

Dorta-González

2022

Mathematics

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“…As indicated, many of the research articles in this study have not been cited or have not received any attention in social media (compiled in the database after four years). This is something that happens frequently in the literature in the case of the citations (Dorta-González et al. , 2020).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 88%

The funding effect on citation and social attention: the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a case study

Dorta-González

2023

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PurposeAcademic citation and social attention measure different dimensions in the impact of research results. The authors quantify the contribution of funding to both indicators considering the differences attributable to the research field and access type.Design/methodology/approachCitation and social attention accumulated until the year 2021 of more than 367 thousand research articles published in the year 2018 are studied. The authors consider funding acknowledgments (FAs) in the research articles. The data source is Dimensions, and the units of study are research articles in the United Nation (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).FindingsMost cited goals by researchers do not coincide with those that arouse greater social attention. A small proportion of articles accumulates a large part of the citations and most of the social attention. Both citation and social attention grow with funding. Thus, funded research has a greater probability of being cited in academic articles and mentioned in social media. Funded research receives on average two to three times more citations and 2.5 to 4.5 times more social attention than unfunded research. Moreover, the open access (OA) modalities gold and hybrid have the greatest advantages in citation and social attention due to funding.Research limitations/implicationsSpecific topics were studied in a specific period. Studying other topics and/or different time periods might result in different findings.Practical implicationsWhen funding to publish in open or hybrid access journals is not available, it is advisable to self-archiving the pre-print or post-print version in a freely accessible repository.Social implicationsAlthough cautiously, it is also advisable to consider the social impact of the research to complement the scientific impact in the evaluation of the research.Originality/valueThe joint evaluation of the effect of both funding and OA on social attention.

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“…For example, a recent analysis of citations among OA and paywalled journal articles found that there is no general OA citation advantage and that article access status accounts for little of the variability in the number of citations an article receives (Basson, 2019). Instead, confounding factors including the reputation of the journal, the language the journal is published in, and the first author's home institution can have a stronger effect on the number of citations an article receives (Basson, 2019;Dorta-González et al, 2020).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Open access effect on uncitedness: a large-scale study controlling by discipline, source type and visibility

Cited by 13 publications

References 25 publications

Collaboration Effect by Co-Authorship on Academic Citation and Social Attention of Research

Collaboration Effect by Co-Authorship on Academic Citation and Social Attention of Research

The funding effect on citation and social attention: the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a case study

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

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