What happens when a journal converts to Open Access? A bibliometric analysis

« In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access has led to many journals converting, or ‘flipping’, from a closed access (CA) to an open access (OA) publishing model. Changing the publishing model can influence the decision of authors to submit their papers to a journal, and increased article accessibility may influence citation behaviour. In this paper we aimed to understand how flipping a journal to an OA model influences the journal’s future publication volumes and citation impact. (…) »

source > arxiv.org, Fakhri Momeni, Philipp Mayr, Nicholas Fraser, Isabella Peters, 26 mars 2021, arXiv:2103.14522

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