Editing Open access (section)

==== Altmetrics ====
In addition to format academic [[citation]], other forms of research impact ([[altmetrics]]) may be affected by OA publishing,<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":11" /> constituting a significant "amplifier" effect for science published on such platforms.<ref name=":8">{{Cite journal |last1=Teplitskiy |first1=M. |last2=Lu |first2=G. |last3=Duede |first3=E. |year=2016 |title=Amplifying the impact of open access: Wikipedia and the diffusion of science |journal=Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology |volume=68 |issue=9 |pages=2116 |arxiv=1506.07608 |doi=10.1002/asi.23687 |s2cid=10220883}}</ref> Initial studies suggest that OA articles are more referenced in blogs,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Shema |first1=Hadas |last2=Bar-Ilan |first2=Judit |last3=Thelwall |first3=Mike |date=15 January 2014 |title=Do blog citations correlate with a higher number of future citations? Research blogs as a potential source for alternative metrics |journal=Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology |volume=65 |issue=5 |pages=1018–1027 |doi=10.1002/asi.23037 |issn=2330-1635 |s2cid=31571840}}</ref> on Twitter,<ref name=":6" /> and on English Wikipedia.<ref name=":8" /> The OA advantage in altmetrics may be smaller than the advantage in academic citations, although findings are mixed.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Alhoori |first1=Hamed |last2=Ray Choudhury |first2=Sagnik |last3=Kanan |first3=Tarek |last4=Fox |first4=Edward |last5=Furuta |first5=Richard |last6=Giles |first6=C. Lee |date=15 March 2015 |title=On the Relationship between Open Access and Altmetrics |journal=IConference 2015 Proceedings |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/73451 |url-status=live |language=English |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103052404/https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/73451 |archive-date=3 January 2020 |access-date=3 January 2020}}</ref><ref name=":11" /><ref name="Clayson 103–111"/>