“Open citations now!” So concludes a new open letter to publishers from researchers who support making scholarly citations freely available, in the interest of better citation analysis. Advocates of ...

For years, advocates of open access to research literature have claimed that making a paper freely available online will increase the number of times it is cited by other articles. But the data show ...

Free online access conferred the greatest citation advantage in the life sciences, and no significant influence in three areas -- chemistry, physics and the social sciences -- which the authors ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Back to school is in full swing and that means book reports, research papers, final papers and Googling, "How to cite sources." Whether it is a college research paper or a 10 th ...

When academic articles are "open access" or free online, they get read more often, but they don't -- going against conventional wisdom -- get cited more often in academic literature, finds a new study ...