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"Open Access and Global Participation in Science" by James A. Evans and Jacob Reimer

For anyone who wishes more details about the impact of open-access journals, please see the attached PDF.

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 (sciencemag.org)". 

Tags: citations, impact, investigations, journals, scientists

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Dan Mires Permalink Reply by Dan Mires on February 13, 2010 at 9:08pm
There is more than one way of publicizing a journal other than the use of commecial sources. One only needs to seize the opportunities presented by various electronic means of communication.

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