Self-selected or mandated, open access increases citation impact for higher quality research

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Gargouri, Yassine ^a   Hajjem, Chawki ^a   Lariviére, Vincent ^a   Gingras, Yves ^a   Carr, Les ^b   Brody, Tim ^b   Harnad, Stevan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION CENTER; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLISHING; INTERNET;

INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR;

EID: 78149431697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013636     Document Type: Article

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