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Monday, February 09, 2009

Impact of an OA start-up journal

Ulf-Dietrich Reips and Uwe Matzat, High Impact of a Start-Up Journal - Surprisingly so?, International Journal of Internet Science 3(1), 2008. An editorial.

[The International Journal of Internet Science released its first issue in March 2006.]

... Compared with other, long-standing, journals in our field, the International Journal of Internet Science achieved a surprisingly high impact. ...

[O]pen access journals tend to receive more citations than those limited in access. ...