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Citation: Eysenbach G (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. 
PLoS Biol 4(5): e157 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157

Those of us who are interested moving toward Open Access publishing (OA) for the
SD Society might be interested in the above article which states:
 
"This comparison of the impact of OA and non-OA articles from the same journal
in the first 4-16 mo after publication shows that OA articles are cited earlier
and are, on average, cited more often than non-OA articles." 
 
The article also shows: 
 
 "an advantage of publishing an article as OA on the journal site over
self-archiving (i.e., making the article otherwise online accessible)."

 
The article is freely available from PLoS Biology at:
 
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157
 
But the article could have been made better through the addition of some
feedback loops!
 
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Richard G. Dudley
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posting date  Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:53:05 -1100