Open access and its potential impact on public health – A South African perspective
Authors : Adéle Strydom, Juanita Mellet, Jeanne Van Rensburg, Ignatius Viljoen, Anastasios Athanasiadis, Michael S. Pepper Traditionally, access to research inf...
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Deep Impact: A Study on the Impact of Data Papers and Datasets in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Authors : Barbara McGillivray, Paola Marongiu, Nilo Pedrazzini, Marton Ribary, Mandy Wigdorowitz, Eleonora Zordan The humanities and social sciences (HSS) have ...
Forecasting the publication and citation outcomes of COVID-19 preprints
Authors : Michael Gordon, Michael Bishop, Yiling Chen, Anna Dreber, Brandon Goldfedder, Felix Holzmeister, Magnus Johannesson, Yang Liu, Louisa Tran, Charles Tw...
Impact factions: assessing the citation impact of different types of open access repositories
Authors : Jonathan Wheeler, Ngoc‑Minh Pham, Kenning Arlitsch, Justin D. Shanks Institutional repositories (IR) maintained by research libraries play a central r...
Does Open Access Really Increase Impact? A Large-Scale Randomized Analysis
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, David Sapinho The Open Access Citation Advantage (OACA) has been a major topic of discussion in the literature over the past twenty ...
Biosecurity in an age of open science
Authors : James Andrew Smith, Jonas B. Sandbrink The risk of accidental or deliberate misuse of biological research is increasing as biotechnology advances. As ...
Free access to scientific literature and its influence on the publishing activity in developing countries: The effect of Sci-Hub in the field of mathematics
Authors : Kilian Buehling, Matthias Geissler, Dorothea Strecker This paper investigates whether free access to scientific literature increases the participation...