[open-science] how to convince someone to publish open access?

Wed Jul 21 15:04:13 UTC 2010

One can programmatically access references from papers in PubMed Central to
get at some of this information.

Obviously only catches biomed articles, and isn't as comprehensive and
Scopus or ISI references, but perhaps useful nonetheless?

Refs can be used to calculate a journal-impact-factor proxy.

I have some python code to do this... I think it is openly online but not
easy for someone else to pick up and use, alas ... let me know (anyone) if
interested and we can work on it together?

btw can always point to PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine as quick counter
examples ;)

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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Chris Rusbridge <c.rusbridge at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> That's a question I don't know the answer to, but as an editor of an open
> access journal (ijdc.net, about digital curation), it makes me wonder what
> stats people would like, and how to get them collected...
>
> Eg how does one set about getting a journal to have an impact factor?
>
> We did some research last year on downloads and article citation rates,
> using Google Scholar, mentioned in the Editorial to the issue prior to the
> one just published, see
> http://ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/129/169. Annoyingly there
> doesn't appear to be an API to Google Scholar, making this a tedious piece
> of desk research that needs repeating each time its to be reported. Are
> there better measures we could compute more easily at low cost? (Open Access
> journals do not have high budgets.)
>
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> On 21 Jul 2010, at 14:59, James Casbon wrote:
>
> > Hi Open Science,
> >
> > Does anyone have some decent stats on open access journals?  Tried to
> > look at impact factors but they're behind a paywall.
> >
> > Specifically, I need hard facts to counter the claim that open access
> > are more 'downmarket' than their closed competitors.
> >
> > thanks,
> > James
> >
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