Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0

Author-Name: Patrick Gaulé
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick
Author-X-Name-Last: Gaulé
Author-Email: patrick.gaule@epfl.ch
Author-Workplace-Name: Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation, Collège du Management de la Technologie, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Departement of Economics, University of Geneva
Author-Name: Nicolas Maystre
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas
Author-X-Name-Last: Maystre
Author-Email: nicolas.maystre@unige.ch
Author-Workplace-Name: Departement of Economics, University of Geneva

Title: Getting cited: does open access help?
Abstract: We reexamine the widely held belief that free availability of scientific articles increases the number of citations they receive. Since open access is relatively more attractive to authors of higher quality papers, regressing citations on open access and other controls yields upward-biased estimates. Using an instrumental variable approach, we find no significant effect of open access. Instead, self-selection of higher quality articles into open access explains at least part of the observed open access citation advantage.

Length: 16 pages
Creation-Date: 2008-07

File-URL: https://cdm-repec.epfl.ch/cmi-wpaper/cemi-workingpaper-2008-007.pdf

File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: cemi-workingpaper-2008-007
Classification-JEL: O33, O38
Keywords: scholarly publishing, open access, free access

Handle: RePEc:cmi:wpaper:cemi-workingpaper-2008-007