Analysis on open access citation advantage: An empirical study based on Oxford open journals

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 426-432

  Xu, Lifang ^a   Liu, Jinhong ^b   Fang, Qing ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Citation advantage; Impact factor; OACA; Open access

Indexed keywords

CITATION ADVANTAGE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IMPACT FACTOR; OACA; OPEN ACCESS; STATISTIC ANALYSIS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

PUBLISHING;

EID: 79952593250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1940761.1940819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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