Measuring Open Access Publications: A Novel Normalized Open Access Indicator
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- Authors
- Maddi, A.
- Affiliations
- Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Maddi, Abdelghani
- ORCID
- Maddi, Abdelghani
- Venue
- Scientometrics
- Published
- 2020-04-19
- Volume
- 124
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 379-398
- ISSN
- 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
- 1588-2861
- OpenAlex
- W3016499005
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 2.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Scientometrics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- open access, open access indicators, comparative institutional analysis, research output measurement
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