3 Comments

1. Brad Leclerc says:

   March 30, 2011 at 10:32 am

   Not surprising
   Not surprising at all…after all, making it easier/cheaper gets more people reading it in general, and if you can get the full text of one paper for free, and have to pay for another paper on a similar topic, people will tend to gravitate towards the free content.

   The only problem with that is that the effect doesn’t often discriminate for quality, just price. So a crappy, but free, paper might get cited more than a well-done, but pricey, alternative…which is a shame.
2. Stevan Harnad says:

   March 30, 2011 at 1:13 pm

   Bibliography of Open Access Impact Advantage
   The effect of open access and downloads (‘hits’) on citation impact: a bibliography of studies
   http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
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   April 12, 2011 at 10:47 am

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