The effect of use and access on citations

  • Authors:

  • Michael J. Kurtz;Guenther Eichhorn;Alberto Accomazzi;Carolyn Grant;Markus Demleitner;Edwin Henneken;Stephen S. Murray

  • Affiliations:

  • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 01238, USA;Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 01238, USA;Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 01238, USA;Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 01238, USA;Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 01238, USA;Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 01238, USA;Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 01238, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Infometrics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

It has been shown (Lawrence, S. (2001). Online or invisible? 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.