The relationship between usage and citations in an open access mega-journal
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Summary
An observational study of usage and citation data collected about the multidisciplinary, open access mega-journal Scientific Reports finds that articles with high usage in the first six months are more likely to have their first citation earlier and that higher citations in thefirst two years since publication are related to higher usage.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2019-02-04
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 37
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Wilcoxon signed-rank test, Citation, Observational study, Mega-, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
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