Evaluating Open Access Advantages for Citations and Altmetrics (2011-21): A Dynamic and Evolving Relationship

arXiv - CS - Digital Libraries Pub Date : 2024-06-15 DOI:arxiv-2406.10535

Michael Taylor

{"title":"Evaluating Open Access Advantages for Citations and Altmetrics (2011-21): A Dynamic and Evolving Relationship","authors":"Michael Taylor","doi":"arxiv-2406.10535","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Differences between the impacts of Open Access (OA) and non-OA research have\nbeen observed over a wide range of citation and altmetric indicators, usually\nfinding an Open Access Advantage (OAA) within specific fields. However,\nscience-wide analyses covering multiple years, indicators and disciplines are\nlacking. Using citation counts and six altmetrics for 38.7M articles published\n2011-21, we compare OA and non-OA papers. The results show that there is no\nuniversal OAA across all disciplines or impact indicators: the OAA for\ncitations tends to be lower for more recent papers, whereas the OAAs for news,\nblogs and Twitter are consistent across years and unrelated to volume of OA\npublications, whereas the OAAs for Wikipedia, patents and policy citations are\nmore complex. These results support different hypotheses for different subjects\nand indicators. The evidence is consistent with OA accelerating research impact\nin the Medical & Health Sciences, Life Sciences and the Humanities; that\nincreased visibility or discoverability is a factor in promoting the\ntranslation of research into socio-economic impact; and that OA is a factor in\ngrowing online engagement with research in some disciplines. OAAs are therefore\ncomplex, dynamic, multi-factorial and require considerable analysis to\nunderstand.","PeriodicalId":501285,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - CS - Digital Libraries","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"arXiv - CS - Digital Libraries","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2406.10535","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Differences between the impacts of Open Access (OA) and non-OA research have been observed over a wide range of citation and altmetric indicators, usually finding an Open Access Advantage (OAA) within specific fields. However, science-wide analyses covering multiple years, indicators and disciplines are lacking. Using citation counts and six altmetrics for 38.7M articles published 2011-21, we compare OA and non-OA papers. The results show that there is no universal OAA across all disciplines or impact indicators: the OAA for citations tends to be lower for more recent papers, whereas the OAAs for news, blogs and Twitter are consistent across years and unrelated to volume of OA publications, whereas the OAAs for Wikipedia, patents and policy citations are more complex. These results support different hypotheses for different subjects and indicators. The evidence is consistent with OA accelerating research impact in the Medical & Health Sciences, Life Sciences and the Humanities; that increased visibility or discoverability is a factor in promoting the translation of research into socio-economic impact; and that OA is a factor in growing online engagement with research in some disciplines. OAAs are therefore complex, dynamic, multi-factorial and require considerable analysis to understand.

查看原文本刊更多论文

评估开放获取在引用和 Altmetrics 方面的优势（2011-21）：不断发展的动态关系

开放存取（OA）研究与非开放存取研究的影响差异已在广泛的引文和计量指标中被观察到，通常在特定领域发现开放存取优势（OAA）。然而，目前还缺乏涵盖多个年份、指标和学科的全科学分析。利用 2011-21 年发表的 3,870 万篇论文的引文计数和六项计量指标，我们对开放存取论文和非开放存取论文进行了比较。结果表明，在所有学科或影响指标中都存在普遍的OAA：较新论文的OAA往往较低，而新闻、博客和Twitter的OAA在不同年份是一致的，且与OA发表量无关，而维基百科、专利和政策引文的OAA则更为复杂。这些结果支持针对不同主题和指标的不同假设。有证据表明，开放式获取加速了医学与健康科学、生命科学和人文学科的研究影响；增加可见性或可发现性是促进研究转化为社会经济影响的一个因素；开放式获取是某些学科在线参与研究的一个因素。因此，开放式获取是复杂的、动态的、多因素的，需要进行大量分析才能理解。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

arXiv - CS - Digital Libraries

自引率

0.00%

发文量