{"id":15182,"date":"2015-11-23T00:23:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=15182"},"modified":"2015-11-23T00:23:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:23:44","slug":"the-academia-edu-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/11\/23\/the-academia-edu-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Academia.edu advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post your articles to Academia.edu as soon as they&#8217;re published, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/12297791\/Open_Access_Meets_Discoverability_Citations_to_Articles_Posted_to_Academia.edu\">get more citations<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on a sample size of 34,940 papers, we find that a paper in a median impact factor journal uploaded to Academia.edu receives 41% more citations after one year than a similar article not available online, 50% more citations after three years, and 73% after five years. We also found that articles also posted to Academia.edu had 64% more citations than articles only posted to other online venues, such as personal and departmental homepages, after five years.\u201d [the conclusion expands this &#8220;other&#8221; element, it includes: &#8220;journal site, or any other online hosting venue&#8221;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The studied papers were uploaded at &#8220;the same time they\u2019re published&#8221;. Excluded from the study were&#8230; &#8220;articles uploaded to Academia.edu after they were published&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, the authors also note that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To our knowledge there has been no research on what features of open access repositories or databases make articles easier to discover&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All that public money spent on repositories around the world, and not <em>one<\/em> librarian has felt the need to test for such public discoverability vectors?  Seriously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post your articles to Academia.edu as soon as they&#8217;re published, get more citations&#8230;. Based on a sample size of 34,940 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/11\/23\/the-academia-edu-advantage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-search","category-open-access-publishing","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}