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Friday, October 14, 2005

OA increases citation impact outside academic literature too

Alec Banning, Possible correlation between citation and cost of content, Librarians at the Gate, October 13, 2005. We know that OA increases citation impact for academic literature. Now we have evidence of the same connection for newspaper columns. Citations to three popular New York Times columnists have decreased since the Times decided to make them TA rather than OA. It appears --no surprise-- that the connection between OA and citation impact is a general phenomenon.