Open Access Uptake and Citation Patterns in Social Science Journals

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Open Access Uptake and Citation Patterns in Social Science Journals

Samira Patel✉

Samira PatelCentre for Scholarly Communication, Example University

Abstract

Using bibliometric indicators from a stratified sample of social science titles, we compare citation trajectories for open-access and subscription articles while controlling for discipline and article age.

Keywords

open accesscitation analysissocial sciences

Funding Statement

This research received no external funding.

Conflict of Interest Statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Data / Code availability

Bibliometric dataset available via the journal supplementary materials portal.

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