impact your impact 24 october 2013
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Does Open Access publishing make a difference to the impact of your paper?TRANSCRIPT
8-10-2013
Challenge the future
DelftUniversity ofTechnology
Does Open Access publishing make a difference?Nicole Potters, TU Delft Library
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Are Open Access articles read more?
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1. Yes2. No3. Inconclusive
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Are Open Access articles cited more?
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1. Yes2. No3. Inconclusive
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“Open Access Citation Advantage”
• General agreement that OA articles are downloaded/ accessed more than articles in subscription journals
• Most studies agree that OA articles are cited more
• However:• could be “early view” advantage• could be “quality bias”• major differences between subject areas
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Have you read the recent article in Science about OA and peer review?
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1. I have read it2. I have heard about it3. I don’t know this
article
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No peer review at OA journals?
• General agreement that OA articles are downloaded/ accessed more than articles in subscription journals
• Most studies agree that OA articles are cited more
• However:• could be “early view” advantage• could be “quality bias”
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No peer review at OA journals?
• Article in Science:• Medical article with obvious flaws submitted to
OA journals, taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Beall’s List
• More often accepted for publication than rejected• Publishers were not who or where they claimed
to be
• Beall’s List is an overview of predatory publishers: the list is intended as a warning that these publishers are frauds
• No comparison with regular subscription journals: would they have accepted the article?
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Predatory publishers
• General agreement that OA articles are downloaded/ accessed more than articles in subscription journals
• Most studies agree that OA articles are cited more
• However:• could be “early view” advantage• could be “quality bias”
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What is the major problem with OA publishing at the moment?
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1. The peer review is just not good enough
2. Predatory publishers are taking advantage of OA funding
3. Both these problems are major
4. There are no major problems
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Publishing in OA increases the impact of my articles
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1. Yes, definitely2. Yes, in some cases3. It makes no difference4. No, it will stay the
same5. No, the impact will be
less
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How do you increase your impact as an author?
• Write good articles!
• Publish in reputable journals• OA journal:
• Check that the publisher is not on Beall’s List• If the offer seems too good to be true…
• Subscription journal:• Check the journal on Sherpa/RoMeo: is self-archiving
allowed?• Add your preprint/postprint to the TU Delft Repository
• Both OA and subscription journals:• Are articles from the journal indexed in a good database?• Who are the editors? Are their affiliations correct? Do they
(or their colleagues) publish in the journal?
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How do you increase your impact as an author?
• Make the most of your publications:• Create profiles and online publication lists
• ResearcherID (Thomson Reuters)• Scopus Author ID (Elsevier)• Google Scholar Citations• ORCID
• h-index…• Determined by number of publications and number of
citations per publication• Not improved by publishing in predatory publishers’
journals:few or no citations
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Social media
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Social media
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Does Open Access publishing make a difference?
• Open Access articles are read more than articles published in subscription journals.
• Open Access articles are probably cited more than articles published in subscription journals.
• There is more to OA publishing than OA journals! Add your preprints/postprints to the TU Delft Repository to increase their impact.
• Use social media and publication lists to improve your visibility. A link to an OA article can be accessed by all!
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What will you do?
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1. I will publish in OA journals
2. I will publish in subscription journals, but add my preprint/postprint to TU Delft Repository
3. I will do both4. I will do neither