#oaca — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oaca, aggregated by home.social.
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Update. Another article made it through peer review (at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) leading with two false generalizations, that (all or most) #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs and that (all or most) paid APCs are paid by authors.
https://journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstract/9900/the_open_versus_closed_access_publication.1671.aspx
(#paywalled)Most OA journals are #DiamondOA and charge no APCs.
http://www.doaj.org/Most paid APCs are paid by funders or employers, not by authors out of pocket. (Footnote: The evidence is clearer for the global north than the global south.)
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9On the plus side, the article reports that in field of orthopaedic surgery, OA articles have higher citation counts and altmetric scores than non-OA articles.
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Update. Another article made it through peer review (at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) leading with two false generalizations, that (all or most) #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs and that (all or most) paid APCs are paid by authors.
https://journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstract/9900/the_open_versus_closed_access_publication.1671.aspx
(#paywalled)Most OA journals are #DiamondOA and charge no APCs.
http://www.doaj.org/Most paid APCs are paid by funders or employers, not by authors out of pocket. (Footnote: The evidence is clearer for the global north than the global south.)
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9On the plus side, the article reports that in field of orthopaedic surgery, OA articles have higher citation counts and altmetric scores than non-OA articles.
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Update. Another article made it through peer review (at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) leading with two false generalizations, that (all or most) #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs and that (all or most) paid APCs are paid by authors.
https://journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstract/9900/the_open_versus_closed_access_publication.1671.aspx
(#paywalled)Most OA journals are #DiamondOA and charge no APCs.
http://www.doaj.org/Most paid APCs are paid by funders or employers, not by authors out of pocket. (Footnote: The evidence is clearer for the global north than the global south.)
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9On the plus side, the article reports that in field of orthopaedic surgery, OA articles have higher citation counts and altmetric scores than non-OA articles.
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Update. Another article made it through peer review (at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) leading with two false generalizations, that (all or most) #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs and that (all or most) paid APCs are paid by authors.
https://journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstract/9900/the_open_versus_closed_access_publication.1671.aspx
(#paywalled)Most OA journals are #DiamondOA and charge no APCs.
http://www.doaj.org/Most paid APCs are paid by funders or employers, not by authors out of pocket. (Footnote: The evidence is clearer for the global north than the global south.)
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9On the plus side, the article reports that in field of orthopaedic surgery, OA articles have higher citation counts and altmetric scores than non-OA articles.
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Update. Another article made it through peer review (at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) leading with two false generalizations, that (all or most) #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs and that (all or most) paid APCs are paid by authors.
https://journals.lww.com/jaaos/abstract/9900/the_open_versus_closed_access_publication.1671.aspx
(#paywalled)Most OA journals are #DiamondOA and charge no APCs.
http://www.doaj.org/Most paid APCs are paid by funders or employers, not by authors out of pocket. (Footnote: The evidence is clearer for the global north than the global south.)
https://suber.pubpub.org/pub/j1jk6hu9On the plus side, the article reports that in field of orthopaedic surgery, OA articles have higher citation counts and altmetric scores than non-OA articles.
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This new study finds a "moderate" #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA) in the field of medical education.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10872981.2026.2652722PS: Good to hear. But I must quibble with the article's title: "Is it worth publishing Open Access?" Can't we agree that it's a good thing to make access to research free of charge, to help more readers gain understanding, no matter how many or how few of those readers go on to cite that research?
The main point of OA is to reduce barriers to the circulation of knowledge, not to boost citations. Boosting citations is a side effect that happens to move some authors who aren't moved by the main point.
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In the field of orthopaedic medicine, #OpenAccess increases citation impact.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s10195-026-00911-zAnd BTW, so do long titles (by character count, but not by word count) and the presence of colons in the title (but not question marks).
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New study: "#OpenAccess via #repositories (#GreenOA) correlates with higher citation counts and a lower probability of zero citations. In contrast, OA via the publisher's website without an explicit #OpenLicense (#BronzeOA) is associated with higher citation counts but also with a higher probability of zero citations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15384v1#Citations #LibreOA #OACA #OpenAccessCitationAdvantage #ScholComm
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New study: "#OpenAccess via #repositories (#GreenOA) correlates with higher citation counts and a lower probability of zero citations. In contrast, OA via the publisher's website without an explicit #OpenLicense (#BronzeOA) is associated with higher citation counts but also with a higher probability of zero citations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15384v1#Citations #LibreOA #OACA #OpenAccessCitationAdvantage #ScholComm
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New study: "#OpenAccess via #repositories (#GreenOA) correlates with higher citation counts and a lower probability of zero citations. In contrast, OA via the publisher's website without an explicit #OpenLicense (#BronzeOA) is associated with higher citation counts but also with a higher probability of zero citations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15384v1#Citations #LibreOA #OACA #OpenAccessCitationAdvantage #ScholComm
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New study: "#OpenAccess via #repositories (#GreenOA) correlates with higher citation counts and a lower probability of zero citations. In contrast, OA via the publisher's website without an explicit #OpenLicense (#BronzeOA) is associated with higher citation counts but also with a higher probability of zero citations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15384v1#Citations #LibreOA #OACA #OpenAccessCitationAdvantage #ScholComm
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New study: "#OpenAccess via #repositories (#GreenOA) correlates with higher citation counts and a lower probability of zero citations. In contrast, OA via the publisher's website without an explicit #OpenLicense (#BronzeOA) is associated with higher citation counts but also with a higher probability of zero citations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15384v1#Citations #LibreOA #OACA #OpenAccessCitationAdvantage #ScholComm
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New study: In the digital humanities, #OpenAccess articles are cited significantly more often than non-OA articles.
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One year after launch, the #OpenAccess edition of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease finds that "OA is helping us to achieve our goal of improving knowledge dissemination in #LMICs, where there is restricted access to subscription journals. Citation analysis of the first few issues of IJTLD OPEN also suggests that this higher level of downloads [higher than for the non-OA edition] is leading to articles being cited at an accelerated rate."
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtldo/2025/00000002/00000001/art00001 -
One year after launch, the #OpenAccess edition of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease finds that "OA is helping us to achieve our goal of improving knowledge dissemination in #LMICs, where there is restricted access to subscription journals. Citation analysis of the first few issues of IJTLD OPEN also suggests that this higher level of downloads [higher than for the non-OA edition] is leading to articles being cited at an accelerated rate."
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtldo/2025/00000002/00000001/art00001 -
One year after launch, the #OpenAccess edition of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease finds that "OA is helping us to achieve our goal of improving knowledge dissemination in #LMICs, where there is restricted access to subscription journals. Citation analysis of the first few issues of IJTLD OPEN also suggests that this higher level of downloads [higher than for the non-OA edition] is leading to articles being cited at an accelerated rate."
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtldo/2025/00000002/00000001/art00001 -
One year after launch, the #OpenAccess edition of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease finds that "OA is helping us to achieve our goal of improving knowledge dissemination in #LMICs, where there is restricted access to subscription journals. Citation analysis of the first few issues of IJTLD OPEN also suggests that this higher level of downloads [higher than for the non-OA edition] is leading to articles being cited at an accelerated rate."
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtldo/2025/00000002/00000001/art00001 -
One year after launch, the #OpenAccess edition of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease finds that "OA is helping us to achieve our goal of improving knowledge dissemination in #LMICs, where there is restricted access to subscription journals. Citation analysis of the first few issues of IJTLD OPEN also suggests that this higher level of downloads [higher than for the non-OA edition] is leading to articles being cited at an accelerated rate."
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iuatld/ijtldo/2025/00000002/00000001/art00001 -
New study: " #OpenAccess increases both interdisciplinary and within-discipline citations in many fields and increases only interdisciplinary citations in chemistry, computer science, and clinical medicine."
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New study: Looking at its own articles published 2019-2013, the hybrid 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘺 found that "OA articles had statistically significantly higher citation counts than TA [toll access] articles."
https://journals.lww.com/jcraniofacialsurgery/abstract/9900/do_open_access_articles_have_a_citation_advantage.2152.aspx -
New study: "We find that the early release of a publication as a #preprint correlates with a significant positive citation advantage of about 20.2% (±.7) on average. We also find that sharing #data in an online #repository correlates with a smaller yet still positive citation advantage of 4.3% (±.8) on average. However, we do not find a significant citation advantage for sharing #code."
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311493 -
New study: "#OpenAccess articles are extensively and increasingly more cited in #Wikipedia, as they show an approximately 64.7% higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia when compared to paywalled articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with high citation counts or published in recent years."
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The #RoyalSociety has documented the #OpenAccessCitationAdvantage (#OACA) for articles published in its #hybrid journals.
https://royalsociety.org/blog/2024/09/royal-society-open-access-equity-year-1-in-numbers/"Data from [our] journal articles published in 2022 shows that papers published #OpenAccess receive 100% more citations and 116% more downloads" than articles behind #paywalls.
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New study: In the field of #ecology "#code is rarely published (only 6% of papers)…[But] there may be incentives to publish code: Publications that share code have tended to be low-impact initially, but accumulate citations faster…Studies that additionally meet other #OpenScience criteria, #OpenAccess publication, or #data sharing, have still higher citation rates."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.70030EDIT: I just added the link to the article. Sorry!
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Evidence for an #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA) in the field of general surgery.
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Update. Evidence for an #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA) in one journal of surgery.
https://journals.lww.com/international-journal-of-surgery/citation/9900/does_open_access_contribute_to_higher_citation.1738.aspxPS: A broader study would count citations from more OA journals in the field. Would also count citations arising from #GreenOA.
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New study: #APC-based #OpenAccess journal articles enjoy a citation advantage over #paywalled articles. But so do articles in no-fee OA #repositories.
https://www.lib.auburn.edu/whatsnew/2024/03/au-librarians-and-biologists-team-up-and-use-big-data-to-investigate-open-access-publishing-models/PS: Save your money *and* reduce our reliance on APC-based revenue models.
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New study: "We found that publishing #OpenAccess in #hybrid journals…confers an avg citation advantage…of 17.8 #citations…After taking [several variables] into account…we still found that OA generated significantly more citations than closed access…We found that cost itself was not predictive of citation rates…For authors with limited budgets, we recommend OA alternatives that do not require paying a fee [#DiamondOA]."
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Update. Missed this one from Nov 2017: The #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA) is real and it "benefits male and female political scientists at similar rates. Thus, OA negates the gender citation advantage that typically accrues to male political scientists."
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517000014 -
Update. #Subscription #OBGYN journals that flip to #OpenAccess see an increase in citations. Those that charge #APCs also see a decline in submissions from the global #south.
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.15398PS: These authors recognize that not all OA journals charge APCs (#DiamondOA). On the one hand, their data only show a decline in submissions from the south for APC-based OA journals. But their imprecise writing attributes it to OA as such.
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New study: When the journal, Neuropsychopharmacology, studied its own articles (a mix of #GreenOA, #GoldOA, #BronzeOA, and non-OA or #paywalled), it found that "easily accessible article content is most often cited by readers, but that the higher #APCs of #Hybrid tier publishing may not guarantee increased scholarly or social impact."
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New study: "We found a robust association between #OpenAccess and increased #diversity of #citation sources by institutions, countries, subregions, regions, and fields of research, across outputs with both high and medium–low citation counts. Open access through disciplinary or institutional #repositories [#GreenOA] showed a stronger effect than open access via publisher platforms [#GoldOA]."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04894-0#OACA [open access citation advantage]
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Interesting argument that the recent decline in the #OpenAccess #citation advantage (#OACA) might be due to #SciHub.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04792-5"Thus, paradoxically, although Sci-hub may seem to facilitate access to scientific knowledge, it negatively affects the #OA movement as a whole, by reducing the comparative advantage of OA publications in terms of visibility for researchers."
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New study: "We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their #code and that there has been no significant improvement over time, but we also find evidence that code sharing can considerably improve #citations, particularly when combined with #OpenAccess publication."
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3222221/v1 -
Update. Evidence for the #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA) in the field of gynecologic oncology.
https://ijgc.bmj.com/content/early/2023/05/22/ijgc-2023-004460 -
More on the #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102734"Articles under the hybrid gold modality are cited on average twice as much as those in the gold modality, regardless of funding…Funded articles generally obtain 50% more citations than unfunded ones within the same publication modality. Open access #repositories significantly increase citations, particularly for articles w/o funding…Articles in OA repositories receive 50% more citations than paywalled ones."
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New study: #OpenAccess articles "show a 15% higher likelihood of being cited in #Wikipedia when compared to closed-access articles, after controlling for confounding factors. This open-access citation effect is particularly strong for articles with low citation counts, including recently published ones.…[OA gives] Wikipedia editors timely access to novel results."
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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (#ASHA) studied the citation impact of articles published in its own journals and found a significant #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA). But for some reason it chose to put this study behind a #paywall.
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00315 -
More evidence that articles published in #OpenAccess journals are cited more often than articles published in #paywalled journals. But at the same time, evidence that the availability of otherwise-paywalled articles on #SciHub is reducing the OA citation advantage (#OACA) for OA journals.
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2357492/v1