When you publish
When you publish Open Access your research is freely available
for anyone, anywhere to see, cite, share, and build upon.
Open Access
And that’s good, because when scientists can access your paper,
they’re more likely to cite your paper.
you get cited
Open Access papers are 2x as likely to be cited within 4-10 months
and
nearly 3x as likely to be cited 10-16 months after publication.¹
Open Access articles have a 36-172% citation advantage,
depending on the discipline.²
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¹ Eysenbach G (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biol 4(5).
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157
² Hajjem C, Harnad S, Gingras Y. (2005) Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of
Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0606079. IEEE
Data Engineering Bulletin 28(4). http://sites.computer.org/debull/A05dec/hajjem.pdf).