Free Academic Articles Get Read But Don't Generate More Citations

Saturday, August 2, 2008 - 23:21 in Psychology & Sociology

When academic articles are "open access" or free online, they get read more often, but they don't -- going against conventional wisdom -- get cited more often in academic literature, finds a new study.

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