OA advantage = EA + AA + QB + OA + UA

[harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:54:10 +0100, Quentin L. Burrell
<quentinburrell at MANX.NET> wrote:


>I very much enjoy your contributions to the list. However, you do have a
>tendency to make unsupported statements. E.g.:
>
>>(QB): Quality bias: There is a tendency in astro (and probably in other
>>fields as well) for the self-archiving authors to be the authors of
>>the higher quality articles.
>
>Evidence? Definition of "higher quality"?

Fair question. Tim Brody is now gathering evidence (from correlations
between (1) number of articles self-archived and (2) the author's or
journal's citation count). The hypothesis that the authors of the
higher-quality articles tend to be the self-archivers comes from Michael
Kurtz, Astrophysics at Harvard, but it is also widely shared in the
arxiv-user community.

Kurtz, Michael J.; Eichhorn, Guenther; Accomazzi, Alberto; Grant, Carolyn
S.; Demleitner, Markus; Murray, Stephen S.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Elwell,
Barbara. (2004a) Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data
System Digital Library. Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology 55.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/jasist1.pdfhttp://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/jasist1.pdf

Kurtz, Michael J.; Eichhorn, Guenther; Accomazzi, Alberto; Grant, Carolyn
S.; Demleitner, Markus; Murray, Stephen S.; Martimbeau, Nathalie ; Elwell,
Barbara (2004b) The Bibliometric Properties of Article Readership
Information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and
Technology 55. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/jasist2.pdf

Cheers,
Stevan