Do open access articles in economics have a citation advantage?
Posted: July 9th, 2014 | Author: Sven | Filed under: found on the net, journals | Tags: academic publishing, open access | 3 Comments »
The two economists Klaus Wohlrabe and Daniel Birkmaier (both from the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich) have published a new working paper in which they analyse the impact of open access publishing in economics on citations.
Their sample consists of articles from 2005 from 13 economic journals (including the top five journals). In addition to standard mean comparisons Wohlrabe and Birkmaier also use a negative-binomial regression model with several covariates to control for potential selection effects and quality bias. For their analysis they used citation data from three different databases, namely the Web of Science, RePEc and Google Scholar.
The results they retrieved are very interisting and might light the debate on open access publishing in academia.
