Online Access and Citations - A Spurious Relationship, Economists Say

[Philip Davis]

Online Access and Citations — A Spurious Relationship, Economists Say
http://j.mp/dHOHq2

Mark McCabe and Chris Snyder report that enormous citation effects 
attributed to online and open access are spurious — an artifact of the 
simple failure to control for differences in article quality and time.

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Philip M. Davis, Ph.D.
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