On 20 August 2015 at 06:54, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
..."the odds that an open access journal is referenced on the English Wikipedia are 47% higher compared to closed access"
Thanks for posting! That's an interesting paper, for all sorts of reasons. I read it because I highly doubt that the number is as low as that. There is
I've been meaning to actually go through this paper for a while, and finally did so this morning :-).
They worked on a journal basis, classing them as "OA" or "not OA". But this is, in some ways, a very small sample. See, eg/, pp. http://science-metrix.com/files/science-metrix/publications/d_1.8_sm_ec_dg-r..., which suggests that articles in gold OA titles represent less than 15% of the total amount "freely available" through various forms.
Given this limitation, it seems quite plausible that the actual OA:citation correlation is higher on a *per-paper* basis... we just don't really have the information to be sure.