Open AccessThe Growth of Poorly Cited Articles in Peer-Reviewed Orthopaedic Journals
Author(s) -
Joost T P Kortlever,
Thi Thu Huong Tran,
David Ring,
Mariano E. Menendez
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1097/corr.0000000000000727
Subject(s) - medicine , citation , scopus , publishing , impact factor , medline , library science , computer science , political science , law
In general, journals can be divided in three categories: subscription-model, open-access, and hybrid (that is, open-access by choice). One measure of an article's impact is the number of citations it receives after publication. Open-access publishing may make articles more widely available because there is no financial barrier to a reader seeing the full-text version. As a result, we wondered whether articles published in fully open-access journals would be more likely to be cited than articles in other kinds of journals.