The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention

Scientometrics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 555-564

  Wang, Xianwen ^a   Liu, Chen ^a   Mao, Wenli ^a   Fang, Zhichao ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; Article level metrics; Open access; Open access advantage; Social media attention; Usage metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936928934     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1547-0     Document Type: Article

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