The state of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

PeerJ

Volumn 2018, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Piwowar, Heather ^a   Priem, Jason ^a   Larivière, Vincent ^b,c   Alperin, Juan Pablo ^d,e   Matthias, Lisa ^d   Norlander, Bree ^f,g   Farley, Ashley ^f,g   West, Jevin ^f   Haustein, Stefanie ^c,h  

^a Impactstory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e Public Knowledge Project   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g FlourishOA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Libraries; Open access; Open science; Publishing; Scholarly communication; Science policy; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SERVICE; LICENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85042002667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4375     Document Type: Article

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