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Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines

This paper empirically studies the effect of Open Access on journal CiteScores. We have found that the general effect is positive but not uniform across different types of journals. In particular, we investigate two types of heterogeneous treatment effect: (1) the differential treatment effect among...

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Autores principales: Li, Yang, Wu, Chaojiang, Yan, Erjia, Li, Kai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30161156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201885
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description This paper empirically studies the effect of Open Access on journal CiteScores. We have found that the general effect is positive but not uniform across different types of journals. In particular, we investigate two types of heterogeneous treatment effect: (1) the differential treatment effect among journals grouped by academic field, publisher, and tier; and (2) differential treatment effects of Open Access as a function of propensity to be treated. The results are robust to a number of sensitivity checks and falsification tests. Our findings shed new light on Open Access effect on journals and can help stakeholders of journals in the decision of adopting the Open Access policy.
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spelling pubmed-61169392018-09-16 Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines Li, Yang Wu, Chaojiang Yan, Erjia Li, Kai PLoS One Research Article This paper empirically studies the effect of Open Access on journal CiteScores. We have found that the general effect is positive but not uniform across different types of journals. In particular, we investigate two types of heterogeneous treatment effect: (1) the differential treatment effect among journals grouped by academic field, publisher, and tier; and (2) differential treatment effects of Open Access as a function of propensity to be treated. The results are robust to a number of sensitivity checks and falsification tests. Our findings shed new light on Open Access effect on journals and can help stakeholders of journals in the decision of adopting the Open Access policy. Public Library of Science 2018-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6116939/ /pubmed/30161156 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201885 Text en © 2018 Li et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_sort will open access increase journal citescores? an empirical investigation over multiple disciplines
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116939/
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