Open data policy and journal impacts: a synthetic difference-in-differences approach

Ho-Chuan Huang, Yin Ma and Yipeng Wang

Applied Economics Letters, 2024, vol. 31, issue 15, 1368-1373

Abstract: By implementing a novel synthetic difference-in-differences approach, this article assesses whether adopting open data policy will increase the impact of a journal. Using China Industrial Economics (hereafter CIE, a leading Chinese journal which mandates authors to open their research data/code in the end of 2016) as a quasi-experiment, we show that the introduction of open data policy leads to an increase in CIE’s impact factor by a factor of approximately 1.5 to 2 times.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2023.2187017

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