2022/01/23 by Pablo Dorta–González, Pablo Dorta-González, Dorta-González, Pablo +2 · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Big Data and Business Intelligence #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Scientific Research and Technology #cs.DL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2201.09284
28 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables
arxiv created 2022/01/23 · openalex publication_date 2022/01/23 · arxiv updated 2022/01/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Researchers are more likely to read and cite papers to which they have access than those that they cannot obtain. Thus, the objective of this work is to analyze the contribution of the Open Access (OA) modality to the impact of hybrid journals. For this, the research articles in the year 2017 from 200 hybrid journals in four subject areas, and the citations received by such articles in the period 2017-2020 in the Scopus database, were analyzed. The journals were randomly selected from those with share of OA papers higher than some minimal value. More than 60 thousand research articles were analyzed in the sample, of which 24% under the OA modality. As results, we obtain that cites per article in both hybrid modalities strongly correlate. However, there is no correlation between the OA prevalence and cites per article in any of the hybrid modalities. There is OA citation advantage in 80% of hybrid journals. Moreover, the OA citation advantage is consistent across fields and held in time. We obtain an OA citation advantage of 50% in average, and higher than 37% in half of the hybrid journals. Finally, the OA citation advantage is higher in Humanities than in Science and Social Science.