Open access meets discoverability: Citations to articles posted to Academia.edu

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Niyazov, Yuri ^a   Vogel, Carl ^b   Price, Richard ^a   Lund, Ben ^a   Judd, David ^a   Akil, Adnan ^a   Mortonson, Michael ^a   Schwartzman, Josh ^a   Shron, Max ^b  

^a Academiaedu   (United States)

^b Polynumeral   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; INTERNET; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84960330697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148257     Document Type: Article

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