Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Impact of Open Access on Citation Counts and Alternative Metrics of Articles in Leading International Scientific Journals on Media and Communication

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2024 17 (8)
Authors
Trishchenko, Nataliia D.; Makeenko, Mikhail I.
Contact information
Trishchenko, Nataliia D.: Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0002-6834-6206; Makeenko, Mikhail I. : Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0009-0002-6457-7063
Keywords
scientific communication; open access; open science; media studies; altmetrics; scholarly journals; citation metrics
Abstract

A total of 1173 articles published between 2018 and 2022 in 9 scientific journals indexed in the international bibliometric databases Web of Science and Scopus were analyzed. The analysis results showed a steady increase in the number of articles published with the open access option. Such articles have an advantage in visibility and citation, however, if the audience for openly published articles is nearly four times larger, their citation metrics are approximately 30 % higher. The question of the impact of open access on altmetrics requires additional study, as the advantage we identified for open access articles is not as noticeable and significant as previous studies by other authors have shown. The widespread adoption of the open access option in individual countries can contribute to strengthening the Matthew effect, which already prominently manifests itself in the international scientific journals

Pages
1602–1611
EDN
UNUQEI
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/153256

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