... (imaginative, adventurous, original, creative, curious, self-reflecting) are found to be least bothered about citations to their works. Conscientiousness Agreeableness Open access publishing Big five personality traits Openness to experience Extraversion Emotional stability Author personality...

.... Criticising Open Access Publishing (OAP) is a bit like criticising democracy. Just as it is a mark of intelligent liberalism to be a democrat now (or else […]), so it is a mark of intelligent liberalism to think that everything should be open and access should be maximised. OAP appears to promise both...

... changes in publication, particularly via a shift to electronic or online media (Rowlands, 2007). The idea of Open Access publishing is predicated upon that shift, which enables works to be freely available online, and has received significant attention (e.g. Rowlands, 2007 ; Suber, 2012...

... in open access publishing, Davis et al. (2008) reported no citation advantage for OA papers. Basically the studies that favoured the self‐selection bias postulate, also known as “quality bias” or “quality differential”, believed that OA papers were not randomly selected for online free...