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Open Access and Global Participation in Science
Abstract
Previous investigations into the impact of open-access journals on subsequent citations confounded open and electronic access and failed to track availability over time. With new data, we separated these effects. We demonstrate that a journal receives a modest increase in citations when it comes online freely, but the jump is larger when it first comes online through commercial sources. This effect reverses for poor countries where free-access articles are much more likely to be cited. Together, findings suggest that free Internet access widens the circle of those who read and make use of scientists' investigations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Evans, J. A., & Reimer, J.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2009-02-20
- Volume
- 323
- Issue
- 5917
- Pages
- 1025-1025
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2088909840
- Cited by
- 258
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 49.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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