<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Open Access Meets Discoverability: Citations to Articles Posted to Academia.edu<br><br>Using matching and regression analyses, we measure the difference in cita-tions between articles posted to <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FAcademia.edu%2F&h=IAQFrNijt&enc=AZP8khySexwjsZZqofVRCSv5Q23tEI2-s-gXMN_TQ3M5qfe39hTpvrrA9t_NQ364s6In9QWoTYCsnaqTNZEZM4bNjSWvirIbeW67KOsAquUDwTt7NuN6vI_i12X23L1rUKfiHe18BG2Ukhxm16kMu_RpBfKjdchhbqfSQJ2O46HtdkhWu0X6pt3qAyT1F1fhhZc&s=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Academia.edu</a>
 and other articles from similar journals, controlling for field, impact factor, and other variables. 
Based on a sample size of 44,689 papers, we find that a paper in a median 
impact factor journal uploaded to <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FAcademia.edu%2F&h=0AQEVgg8r&enc=AZM0xQ4hLkkLYr6wbKQ5d1wQ5oFJ8fVu4S_cw9KugZLCR4W7Z-dJ8T3FyYL7ggDKmU4dZa-LdHCpElV-SnJd59ylEo-xH4Vzp98vTmdDW58PrKP7j7L4Z42zir7a_J4tg8SLJjqm9Ipnw1_vRqSPAXEmLr0KZxTkMGK_jD_OKz-Q-Vp_JlCp6PV0OXnRD9k39Ws&s=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Academia.edu</a>
 receives 37% more citations after one year than a similar article not 
available online, 58% more citations after three years, and 83% after 
five years. We also found that articles posted to <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FAcademia.edu%2F&h=YAQGpnHS-&enc=AZO28kBTLnJpbJ6FqPA7ziwSeEB1ZQtKYagGExRV5JUpRJ_YLhvEnDIMEaBh_B5GeTCHDTgFvhgVi0Xooqte2E1sy3wQc5fwivyh2J39Ohdz-ySrh7smM90MlHwSuvc-Nxc00msda2GJxDfKDoxMoKoOs3PaKePBaFRdU-38iy0zV1UCu76VdVNMFHgAPDCfXu0&s=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Academia.edu</a>
 had 75% more citations than articles posted to other online venues, 
such as personal and departmental home pages, after five years.<br><br><a href="https://www.academia.edu/12297791">https://www.academia.edu/12297791</a><br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>carlos palombini<br>professor de musicologia ufmg<br>professor colaborador ppgm-unirio<br><a href="http://goo.gl/KMV98I" target="_blank">ufmg.academia.edu/CarlosPalombini</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2" target="_blank">www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Palombini2</a><br><a href="http://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ" target="_blank">scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=YLmXN7AAAAAJ</a><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​"MPB e PMDB os males do Brasil são."​</div><br></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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