Research on impact evaluation of open access journals - Scientometrics

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• The indicators of citation are the best index to reflect the academic impact of OA journal

• The mentions of OA journals reflect the prestige and attention of OA journal.

• Mention is the main method to access the popularity and visibility of OA journal, especially the development of OA journal

• The citation impact of OA journal is limited by the long time

• t indicates that OA is one of the factors increasing citations of journal

• all the OA journal papers can be obtained freely online, and own the ability to shorten the time frame between research and publication, and OA increases the research impact of an individual.

• The quality of OA journal is increasing with open access policies established. (3) OA journals reduce the cost of acquiring articles for readers, and reduce the time to publish.

• As mentioned above, the citation impact of OA journal is an integral part of impact evaluation of OA journal.

• These indicators indicate the citation impact is increasing with academic needs.

• OA journals have better visibility, but citations depend on many more aspects, such as APC (article processing charge), peer-review, acceptance and

• Therefore, compared with other journal evaluation indicators, CS has more overall advantages in prestige of journal evaluation

• Citation impact is commonly reflected by comparison of data distribution, which indicates the strong relationship.