Abstract
Open Access Increases Citation Rate
Highlights
P LoS Biology publishes today a research article by Gunther Eysenbach that is not about biology
It adds objective support to the belief we have always held that open-access publication speeds up scientific dialog between researchers and, should be extended to the whole scientific literature as quickly as possible
Eysenbach compared citations compiled by Thomson Scientific to individual articles published between June 2004 and December 2004 in the same journal—namely, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which announced its open-access option for authors on June 8 of that year, with an associated publication charge of US$1,000
Summary
P LoS Biology publishes today a research article by Gunther Eysenbach that is not about biology. Eysenbach compared citations compiled by Thomson Scientific (formerly Thomson ISI) to individual articles published between June 2004 and December 2004 in the same journal—namely, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which announced its open-access option for authors on June 8 of that year, with an associated publication charge of US$1,000.
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