Examining the Impact of the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy on the Citation Rates of Journal Articles.

To examine whether National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded articles that were archived in PubMed Central (PMC) after the release of the 2008 NIH Public Access Policy show greater scholarly impact than comparable articles not archived in PMC.A list of journals across several subject areas was deve...

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Main Authors: Sandra L De Groote, Mary Shultz, Neil R Smalheiser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4598137?pdf=render