No new evidence for a citation benefit for Author-Pay Open Access Publications in the social sciences and humanities

K. Brad Wray ()
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K. Brad Wray: State University of New York, Oswego

Scientometrics, 2016, vol. 106, issue 3, No 8, 1035 pages

Abstract: Abstract I challenge a finding reported recently in a paper by Sotudeh et al. (Scientometrics, 2015. doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1607-5 ). The authors argue that there is a citation advantage for those who publish Author-Pay Open Access (Gold Open Access) in journals published by Springer and Elsevier. I argue that the alleged advantage that the authors report for journals in the social sciences and humanities is an artifact of their method. The findings reported about the life sciences, the health sciences, and the natural sciences, on the other hand, are robust. But my finding underscores the fact that epistemic cultures in the social sciences and humanities are different from those in the other fields.

Keywords: Citations; Open Access Publishing; Author-pay model; Social sciences; Humanities; Citation advantage; Gold Open Access (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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