{"id":25,"date":"2015-10-09T17:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/?p=25"},"modified":"2015-10-09T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:12:19","slug":"academia-edu-citations-and-open-science-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/2015\/10\/09\/academia-edu-citations-and-open-science-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Academia.edu, Citations, and Open Science in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

[From Academia.edu]<\/strong> On May 8, we announced the results of a year-long study of articles posted to Academia.edu. In the study, we asked whether posting an article to Academia.edu was associated with more citations. We found\u200a\u2014\u200aafter controlling for a number of factors and applying several statistical models\u200a\u2014\u200athat a typical paper posted to the site received about 83% more citations than similar papers that were only available behind paywalls. This translated to about one extra citation every year for the median paper.<\/p>\n

We announced the results of the study on our home page<\/span><\/a>, and it was covered by Fortune Magazine<\/span><\/a>. More importantly, we put all of our data and code online<\/span><\/a>. Anyone could\u200a\u2014\u200aand still can\u200a\u2014\u200adownload our data and code, and easily replicate or modify any part of our study.<\/p>\n

The study generated some discussion. A week after our announcement, Phil Davis<\/span><\/a> published a blog post<\/span><\/a> raising some questions about our data sample. He pointed out several \u201cnon-research\u201d articles in our sample and asked whether the presence of these in the data might explain the result.<\/p>\n

In response to that question, we have spent the last several weeks classifying the nearly 45,000 articles in our dataset, and identifying such \u201cnon-research\u201d articles.<\/p>\n

Today, we\u2019re pleased to announce our revised study, which answers that question. Excluding any articles that we did not identify with high confidence to be original research or scholarship, we find a 73% citation increase associated with articles posted to Academia.edu. This is a little less in relative terms than the 83% we found in our original data, but amounts to approximately the same in absolute terms\u200a\u2014\u200aabout one extra citation every year for the median paper. We find a 64% citation increase to articles posted to Academia.edu compared with being posted on other open access venues, such as an open access journal, or a personal homepage (down from 75% in the original data).<\/p>\n

The revised paper is available for download here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more…..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[From Academia.edu] On May 8, we announced the results of a year-long study of articles posted to Academia.edu. In the study, we asked whether posting an article to Academia.edu was associated with more citations. We found\u200a\u2014\u200aafter controlling for a number of factors and applying several statistical models\u200a\u2014\u200athat a typical paper posted to the site received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/edn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}