Early citation advantage?

[Stephen J Bensman]

If you can define a large enough subject set covered by the SCI or SSCI JCR
and containing large enough subsets of both "tolled access" journals and
"open access" journals, I would suggest some sort of comparison of means
test on the immediacy indexes of the two subsets.

SB




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Several recent studies (e.g. Thomson Scientific, Eysenbach) have indicated
that
open access articles are more likely to be cited sooner than tolled access
articles.  This is an argument that, on the face of it, provides a powerful
argument for open access: it speeds up scientific workflow.  Can anyone
supply
a testable hypothesis for this?  I can quite easily understand how open
access
leads to MOPE use, thus higher citation.  But speedier citation?  What are
the
plausible cause and effect arguments here?

Ian Rowlands
UCL Centre for Publishing
www.publishing.ucl.ac.uk