Early citation advantage?

[David Goodman]

I believe Michael Kurtz from Harvard has done some work
on this--see his papers listed at his home page,
findable by Google.

Dr. David Goodman
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
and formerly
Princeton University Library

dgoodman at liu.edu
dgoodman at princeton.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen J Bensman <notsjb at LSU.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:56 pm
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Early citation advantage?
To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU

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> I am totally confused as to what you mean by "gold" versus "green" OA
> journals.  Are those some sort of stamps handed out with use like
> the green
> stamps one used to collect with purchases and paste into little books?
> There have always problems with the immediacy index due to
> differences in
> frequency of publication.  A journal published weekly has an
> advantage over
> a journal published semi-annually.  The problem is to determine
> precisepoint of publication.  However, the only citation data is
> readily available
> for your problem is the immediacy index, and I am sure you can
> solve the
> point of publication problem by randomizing the sample, etc.   It
> seemsthat your null hypothesis is contained in your statement, "In
> the case of a
> gold OA journal vs a traditional tolled journal, I would be hard
> pressed to
> see a plausible cause and effect for an early OA citation
> advantage."  It
> is just a question of setting up the data to test.  Harder problems
> thanthat have been solved.
>
> SB
>
>
>
>
> Ian Rowlands <i.rowlands at UCL.AC.UK>@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 06/21/2006
> 02:31:39 PM
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> Thanks for that Stephen, I guess, having thought about it a bit more
> that there
> are semantic problems here.  In the case of a gold OA journal vs a
> traditional
> tolled journal, I would be hard pressed to see a plausible cause and
> effect for
> an early OA citation advantage. If anyone could advise on this I
> would be
> very
> grateful.
>
> Perhaps this is an issue specific to the green OA route.  If I
> finish a
> paper
> today and seek publication through a traditional tolled journal and
> take no
> further action, I might well expect to see it published and date
> stamped in
> 2007.  If I self- or institutionally archive the preprint, that
> versionwould
> be date stamped today, 2006.  That version might well be cited,
> giving me
> an
> apparent advantage over peers in the same issue who did not
> archive.  This
> might explain the claimed temporal advantage.
>
> It might also be an argument FOR PUBLISHERS to encourage self-
> archivingto help
> to up their ISI immediacy index (but it would only work in cases
> where the
> formal publication happened to fall in the next calendar year).
>
> Certainly your suggestion of comparing immediacy indexes for sets
> of (gold)
> IA
> and tolled articles would be very interesting.
>
> Ian
>
> Quoting Stephen J Bensman <notsjb at LSU.EDU>:
>
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> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ian Rowlands <i.rowlands at UCL.AC.UK>@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 06/21/2006
> > 01:17:24 PM
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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?
> Whatare
> > the
> > plausible cause and effect arguments here?
> >
> > Ian Rowlands
> > UCL Centre for Publishing
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>
> Dr Ian Rowlands
> Director of Research, UCL Centre for Publishing
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