On 20 August 2015 at 06:54, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: > ..."the odds that an open access journal is referenced on > the English Wikipedia are 47% higher compared to closed access" > > Thanks for posting! That's an interesting paper, for all sorts of reasons. I > read it because I highly doubt that the number is as low as that. There is
I've been meaning to actually go through this paper for a while, and finally did so this morning :-). They worked on a journal basis, classing them as "OA" or "not OA". But this is, in some ways, a very small sample. See, eg/, pp. http://science-metrix.com/files/science-metrix/publications/d_1.8_sm_ec_dg-rtd_proportion_oa_1996-2013_v11p.pdf, which suggests that articles in gold OA titles represent less than 15% of the total amount "freely available" through various forms. Given this limitation, it seems quite plausible that the actual OA:citation correlation is higher on a *per-paper* basis... we just don't really have the information to be sure. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
