Evidencing Open Access Citation Advantage using SciVal

Worthington, Bill and Smith, Danny (2022) Evidencing Open Access Citation Advantage using SciVal. In: SciVal and Scopus User Meeting, UK & Ireland, 2022-10-18 - 2022-10-18, Online.

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This conference contribution introduces a technique that can be used to explore the relative citation performance of publication sets with various modes of open access (OA). We give two methods for distilling a publication list into Gold, Hybrid Gold, Green, Bronze OA and Closed publication sets. One method uses SciVal functionality with limited further data manipulation; whilst the other utilises the Unpaywall Simple Query Tool. A comparison of the results for an entity of approximately 4000 research outputs is shown. We suggest some metrics that may be useful in characterising citation advantage of open vs. not open research outputs.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Other)
Additional information	The author acknowledges the contrubution of publication data from Elsevier SciVal in developing this technique.
Keywords	scival, responsible metrics, open access, unpaywall
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 17:09
Last Modified	22 Feb 2026 00:00