The Effect of Use and Access on Citation

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Title:		The Effect of Use and Access on Citation
Authors:		Kurtz, Michael J.; Eichhorn, Guenther; Accomazzi, Alberto; Grant, Carolyn S.; Demleitner, Markus; Murray, Stephen S.
Affiliation:		AA(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, [email protected]), AB(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,Cambridge, MA 02138 USA), AC(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,Cambridge, MA 02138 USA), AD(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,Cambridge, MA 02138 USA), AE(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,Cambridge, MA 02138 USA), AF(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,Cambridge, MA 02138 USA)
Journal:		Accepted by Information Processing and Management.
Submission Date:		09/2004; revised: 01/2005
Origin:		AUTHOR
Related Papers:		The Bibliometric Properties of Article Readership Information , Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library

Abstract

It has been shown (S. Lawrence, 2001, Nature, 411, 521) that journal articles which have been posted without charge on the internet are more heavily cited than those which have not been. Using data from the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ads.harvard.edu) and from the ArXiv e-print archive at Cornell University (arXiv.org) we examine the causes of this effect.

keywords - Open Access, Document Use, Citation Analysis