Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Efficacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science
Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Efficacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science
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DOI：
10.1017/s1049096514001668
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Bull, Jonathan
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作者：
Atchison, Amy;Bull, Jonathan
数字革命使政治科学家可以更轻松地在线分享和获取高质量的研究成果。然而，许多文章存储在一些机构无力承担的专有数据库中。理论上，已开放获取（OA）（即在线免费提供）的高质量、经过同行评审的顶级期刊文章应该比仅向付费客户提供的类似质量的文章更容易访问和引用。迄今为止，对开放获取出版效能的研究主要集中在自然科学领域，结果好坏参半。由于OA在社会科学中尚未得到广泛采用，政治学等学科在OA研究中很少受到关注。在本文中，我们试图确定 OA 在政治学中的功效。我们的主要假设是，OA 文章的引用率高于收费访问 (TA) 文章，这意味着仅付费客户可以访问。我们通过分析八种顶级政治学期刊的 OA 和 TA 文章的平均引用率来检验这一假设。我们发现，OA 出版在政治学出版中具有明显的引用优势。
The digital revolution has made it easier for political scientists to share and access high-quality research online. However, many articles are stored in proprietary data-bases that some institutions cannot afford. High-quality, peer-reviewed, top-tier journal articles that have been made open access (OA) (i.e., freely available online) theoretically should be accessed and cited more easily than articles of similar quality that are available only to paying customers. Research into the efficacy of OA publishing thus far has focused mainly on the natural sciences, and the results have been mixed. Because OA has not been as widely adopted in the social sciences, disciplines such as political science have received little attention in the OA research. In this article, we seek to determine the efficacy of OA in political science. Our primary hypothesis is that OA articles will be cited at higher rates than articles that are toll access (TA), which means available only to paying customers. We test this hypothesis by analyzing the mean citation rates of OA and TA articles from eight top-ranked political science journals. We find that OA publication results in a clear citation advantage in political science publishing.