Early citation advantage?

[Sally Morris (ALPSP)]

Might one factor be the age of the journal?  Typically (I recognise it's not
always true) newer journals have less (or no) publication backlog, so the
time lag between availability of a self-archived preprint and the published
version would likely be less

Sally

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From: "Ian Rowlands" <i.rowlands at UCL.AC.UK>
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Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Early citation advantage?


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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 version
> would
> 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-archiving
> to 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
>>
>>
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>> Ian Rowlands <i.rowlands at UCL.AC.UK>@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU> on 06/21/2006
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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
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>
> Dr Ian Rowlands
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