Revisiting an open access monograph experiment: measuring citations and tweets 5 years later

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作者：
Ronald Snijder
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[1] OAPEN Foundation,
[2] Universiteit Leiden,undefined
来源：
Scientometrics | 2016年 / 109卷
关键词：
Open access; Monographs; Citations; Altmetrics; Tweets;
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摘要：
An experiment run in 2009 could not assess whether making monographs available in open access enhanced scholarly impact. This paper revisits the experiment, drawing on additional citation data and tweets. It attempts to answer the following research question: does open access have a positive influence on the number of citations and tweets a monograph receives, taking into account the influence of scholarly field and language? The correlation between monograph citations and tweets is also investigated. The number of citations and tweets measured in 2014 reveal a slight open access advantage, but the influence of language or subject should also be taken into account. However, Twitter usage and citation behaviour hardly overlap.
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