29.01.2024
Open-access papers draw more citations from a broader readership
« For 2 decades, advocates of open access in scientific publishing have offered a fundamental justification: Making papers immediately free for anyone to read would speed the dissemination of findings and accelerate research progress.
Now, after years of little conclusive evidence
to support these assertions, researchers report that open-access papers have a greater reach than paywalled ones in two key ways: They attract more total citations, and those citations come from scholars in a wider range of locations, institutions, and fields of research. (…) »
source > science.org, Jeffrey Brainard, 24 janvier 2024, doi: 10.1126/science.zb4sw6i
