[Irtalk] Impact of Social Sciences – Across all fields, Open Access articles in Swedish repository have a higher citation rate than non-OA articles.

[Hilton Gibson]

Due to differences in citation practices amongst scientific disciplines,
existing research on a possible open access citation advantage remains
limited. A new study seeks to overcome these limitations by
investigating whether there is a possible OA citation advantage across all
fields. Lars Kullman  presents his findings on cross-field citation
comparisons between OA and non-OA articles from the Chalmers University of
Technology self-archive repository. The results indicate an advantage.
*The OA articles studied in this paper have a 22% higher field normalized
citation rate than the non-OA articles.​*
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http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/06/30/open-access-citation-advantage-chalmers/
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