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No new evidence for a citation benefit for Author-Pay Open Access Publications in the social sciences and humanities

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  • K. Brad Wray

    (State University of New York, Oswego)

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I challenge a finding reported recently in a paper by Sotudeh et al. (Scientometrics, 2015. doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1607-5 ). The authors argue that there is a citation advantage for those who publish Author-Pay Open Access (Gold Open Access) in journals published by Springer and Elsevier. I argue that the alleged advantage that the authors report for journals in the social sciences and humanities is an artifact of their method. The findings reported about the life sciences, the health sciences, and the natural sciences, on the other hand, are robust. But my finding underscores the fact that epistemic cultures in the social sciences and humanities are different from those in the other fields.

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  • K. Brad Wray, 2016. "No new evidence for a citation benefit for Author-Pay Open Access Publications in the social sciences and humanities," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 106(3), pages 1031-1035, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:106:y:2016:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-016-1833-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1833-5
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    1. Jingfeng Xia, 2010. "A longitudinal study of scholars attitudes and behaviors toward open‐access journal publishing," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 61(3), pages 615-624, March.
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