A report from Springer Nature shows that OA articles published in hybrid journals attract more downloads, citations, and attention compared with non-OA articles in hybrid journals.
The findings of the report, ‘Assessing the open access effect for hybrid journals,’ demonstrate this wider value which hybrid journals bring to researchers and to funders, institutions and society more broadly.
The analysis by Digital Science of a global sample of over 70,000 articles published in Springer Nature hybrid journals examined the relationship between OA and usage (measured in terms of downloads), citations, and broader impact (using Altmetric data).
The global study showed that OA articles were downloaded on average 1.6 times more by users based at academic institutions and four times more by users overall, compared to non-OA articles. OA articles attracted an average of 1.6 times more citations and 1.9 times more news mentions than non-OA articles.
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