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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.
https://www.dline.info/ijis/fulltext/v17n1/ijisv17n1_5.pdf -
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 -
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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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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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.