Self-selection and the citation advantage of open access articles

Online Information Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-51

  Xia, Jingfeng ^a   Nakanishi, Katie ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Calumet Specialty Products   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropological journals; Citations; Open access journal articles; Open access publishing; Self selection; Serials

Indexed keywords

PUBLISHING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOURNALS; CITATIONS; OPEN ACCESS; OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS; SELF-SELECTION; SERIALS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 84857697860     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684521211206953     Document Type: Article

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