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For example, [1] seems to show that making data openly accessible does *not* lead to you being scooped, while [2,3,4] shows that open access publications have a higher citation count than closed access equivalents.\r\n\r\n1. http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002432\r\n2. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/4089/1/Thesis%20MN.pdf\r\n3. https://peerj.com/articles/175/\r\n4. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/206184/files/Vandewalle12.pdf"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/website/issues/comments/217044284","html_url":"https://github.com/swcarpentry/website/issues/368#issuecomment-217044284","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/website/issues/368","id":217044284,"user":{"login":"rossmounce","id":824120,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/824120?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce","html_url":"https://github.com/rossmounce","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rossmounce/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-05-05T00:10:41Z","updated_at":"2016-05-05T00:10:41Z","body":"Some of the OpenCon community published this review recently: http://f1000research.com/articles/5-632/v1\r\n_The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review_\r\n\r\nGood overview of the vast swathe of published studies on OA citation advantage amongst other things. Citations aren't the be all and end all though :wink: "}}