Apologies and link. Re: [SIGMETRICS] Travis Metcalfe says OA advantage not self-selection (fwd)
David Goodman
dgoodman at PRINCETON.EDU
Wed Dec 20 18:35:56 EST 2006
My apologies. This particular article is OA, at
<http://www.springerlink.com/content/3485x525622j0801/fulltext.pdf>
I commend the author for his choice of publication routes.
David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
previously:
Bibliographer and Research Librarian
Princeton University Library
dgoodman at princeton.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: David Goodman <dgoodman at Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 6:30 pm
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Travis Metcalfe says OA advantage not self-selection (fwd)
To: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics <SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
Cc: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
> Unfortunately the article is not OA. Perhaps the author can post
> his
> manuscript. I cannot tell, for example, if notification advantage
> was considered for the conference papers.
>
> Research articles about OA should not be published in places
> where some form of OA is not available. We say, and rightly, that
> there should be almost no instance of not being able to find a
> suitable journal that permits self-archiving.
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
> previously:
> Bibliographer and Research Librarian
> Princeton University Library
>
> dgoodman at princeton.edu
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stevan Harnad <harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:47 am
> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Travis Metcalfe says OA advantage not self-
> selection (fwd)
> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
>
> > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
> > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
> >
> > Mike Kurtz has just forwarded the URL for a recent paper by
> Travis
> > Metcalfeconfirming that the OA impact advantage is not merely a
> > self-selection
> > effect in astrophysics:
> >
> > ----
> > Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:35:55 -0500
> > From: kurtz -- cfa.harvard.edu
> > To: harnad -- ecs.soton.ac.uk
> >
> > You may want to look at:
> > http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SoPh..239..549M
> > ----
> >
> > I too will shortly be posting (in reply to Henk Moed)
> >
> >
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5901
> > a summary of some preliminary evidence across disciplines, just
> > collectedand analyzed by my doctoral student, Chawki Hajjem,
> using
> > our robot-search
> > methodology. Based on comparing the OA advantage for mandated and
> > non-mandated self-archiving, this too confirms that the OA self-
> > archivingadvantage is not merely a self-selection effect.
> >
> > For the desperately curious, the data are already visible here
> >
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/moedrep.ppt
> >
> > and they also include the analyses in response to Eysenbach's
> > challenge
> >
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5373
> > to show, with independent multiple regression analyses, that the OA
> > self-archiving advantage from our multi-disciplinary, robot-based
> > comparisons is not merely an artifact "confounding" article age,
> > journal impact factor or number of authors. (Outcome: There is
> > indeed a
> > statistically significant, independent OA self-archiving
> advantage
> > overand above the citation advantages conferred by articles age,
> > journalimpact factor, and number of authors. Details in another
> > forthcomingposting.)
> >
> > Here, meanwhile, is Metcalfe's abstract:
> >
> > Metcalfe, Travis S. (2006) The Citation Impact of Digital
> Preprint> Archives for Solar Physics Papers. Solar Physics,
> Volume 239,
> > Issue 1-2, pp. 549-553
> > http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SoPh..239..549M
> > http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11207-006-0262-7
> > ABSTRACT: Papers that are posted to a digital preprint archive
> are> typically cited twice as often as papers that are not
> posted.
> > This has
> > been demonstrated for papers published in a wide variety of
> > journals, and in many different subfields of astronomy. Most
> > astronomers now use the arXiv.org server (astro-ph) to
> > distribute preprints,
> > but the solar physics community has an independent archive hosted
> > at Montana State University. For several samples of solar physics
> > papers published in 2003, I quantify the boost in citation
> > rates for
> > preprints posted to each of these servers. I show that papers
> > on the
> > MSU archive typically have citation rates 1.7 times higher
> than
> > the average of similar papers that are not posted as
> preprints,
> > while those posted to astro-ph get 2.6 times the average. A
> > comparable boost is found for papers published in conference
> > proceedings, suggesting that the higher citation rates are not
> > the result of
> > self-selection of above-average papers.
> >
> > Stevan Harnad
> >
>
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