Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles
“Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles,” an article by Gunther Eysenbach published in the May 2006 issue of PLoS Biology, finds that articles published as an immediate open access (OA) article on a top journal site have higher impact than self-archived or otherwise openly accessible OA articles. The article finds strong evidence that, even in a journal that is widely available in research libraries, OA articles are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-OA articles published in the same journal. It concludes that OA is likely to benefit science by accelerating dissemination and uptake of research findings. From SPARC eNews.